Morning – The day begins with another visit from the dawn fox. Magical experiences like daylight wildlife visitations are so routine now that, like the eclipse totality, I don’t bother with them.
I have the day off work, though, because it’s been like, a week. I am glad to see it is the same fox I saw on Good Friday. He must have access to my Outlook.
Noon – I put on my NASA t-shirt and tune in to the NASA coverage. NASA tells me that I can use a colander as a pinpoint camera.
1 pm – We set up chairs outside and settle in. I soon discover NASA does not know what a colander is, or that they lie.
1:30 pm – After the fiftieth time Gary asks if I am wearing my eclipse glasses, we have a conversation.
Me: “You’re being particularly feisty today. You argue with every word I say.”
Gary: “No. You are wrong. I am conversing with you. You say one thing, I say the ‘converse’. That’s why it’s called a CONversation.”
2:05 pm – Saw something close to totality, which was about 99 percent.
3 pm – While watching NASA’s replays of all the eclipses, I learn something about the totality I saw in 2017. The gemstone-like red dot of light on the edge I saw back then was not the diamond ring effect, but a “gaseous extension from the Sun.”
So now I’m thinking, soon there is an eclipse coming up in prime Northern Lights country (Alaska, Iceland), and I do have airline miles. Gary claims he’s forgotten the 2017 eclipse, so that might be an adventure.