What Is That?

Nature pulled a couple of neat tricks out of her bag yesterday, starting with the eclipse.  Without the necessary special glasses, I stayed in the house and watched it grow dark outside.  It wasn't hard to imagine how the ancients must have been in fear and awe during such an event.  What I appreciated was the drop in temperature for that short while.

 Bobby helped himself to a late morning snack.

Cam and Honey came in the afternoon and we took our plates of gyoza and sauce out on the deck.  The day had stayed fairly temperate and there was a nice breeze blowing.  Sadly, we were both disappointed in the purchased chicken dumplings.  Homemade pork ones are ever so much better.  We ended up eating the wrappers and feeding the chicken to the dogs, who said it was okay, but nothing to write home about.

As we sat and chatted, and Camille was telling me how she had gone first to a local observatory and then to watch the eclipse with a group at Poor Red's, she suddenly said, "What is that sound?"  We'd been hearing thunder, but at some distance over the hills to the east.  What she'd heard was, get ready for it...rain drops pattering on the deck!  Woohoo!!  It didn't rain hard and was pretty hit and miss, but it was so very welcome.  (Remind me of this later when I'm whining about sloshing through puddles and slipping in mud.)  On a quick trip to get more goat chow earlier, I'd noticed that my truck was so dusty and dirty that it was getting hard to see out of the windshield.  It rained just enough to make a pretty pattern of polka-dots in the dust.  Note to self:  wash the truck.

It was a pretty eventful day.