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Guess what I'm doing on this fine Halloween evening?

Gary said:

Guess what I'm doing on this fine Halloween evening?

Sitting on the toilet?

wvumtnbkr said:

Gary said:

Guess what I'm doing on this fine Halloween evening?

Sitting on the toilet?

 

Those wheels are amazing

Went offroading near Silverton and Ouray,  CO to see the aspen trees turning yellow a couple weeks ago.  Abby is impressed.

I realized that the Saturday we were scheduled to go home to Phoenix was the same time as the annular solar eclipse.  Our route had us going through Monument Valley for the return so if we got up a little earlier than originally planned, it would put us right there for the eclipse.  In the northern part of Monument Valley is a place called Mexican Hat.  This would be the spot we headed for to watch.

Here's a generic Google image of Mexican Hat.   If the app I used was correct that gave the azimuth and elevation of the sun at the time of the eclipse (a different app) I could have the Mexican Hat in the lower part of a photo if I were to park NW of the hat, on the rise on the LH side of this photo.  Who's is the astronomy geek now.

Lots of people on the sides of the road and on top of hills and such.  There was a group of 15-20 astronomy nerds (in a very good way) next to us who traveled from France to this spot to watch.  They made it an astronomy tour of AZ visiting the big observatories that are here, Kitt Peak National Observatory, Mt Graham International Observatory, and Lowell Observatory (best known for discovering Pluto).  Talking with them about the annular eclipse was like talking to a 4 year old who just learned that dinosaurs existed.  And they had some awesome equipment to track and photograph and more than willing to show it all to us.  I had the lens out of my welding hood and an iPhone.

The cool part of my photos were the blueish glare spot on the photo which showed the eclipse.  I did not even realize this spot showed the eclipse until a week or so after getting home.   A happy accident.  One of these is the partial eclipse and the other has the full annular showing the ring of the sun with the center blocked by the moon.  Apparently it is kind of a big deal to those (not me) in the know.  My mapping and internet sextant skills worked.  The photos through the welding lens are not worthy to show.

Some creative writing on the part of Target's HR  Dept.

Mousse was not interested in watching the Bruins last night  

I kinda tried  jambalaya for the first time.

I'd imagine a purist would be horrified by my use of hot Italian sausage, but it's pretty darn good.

Scott_H said:

Went offroading near Silverton and Ouray,  CO to see the aspen trees turning yellow a couple weeks ago.  Abby is impressed.

 

I realized that the Saturday we were scheduled to go home to Phoenix was the same time as the annular solar eclipse.  Our route had us going through Monument Valley for the return so if we got up a little earlier than originally planned, it would put us right there for the eclipse.  In the northern part of Monument Valley is a place called Mexican Hat.  This would be the spot we headed for to watch.

Here's a generic Google image of Mexican Hat.   If the app I used was correct that gave the azimuth and elevation of the sun at the time of the eclipse (a different app) I could have the Mexican Hat in the lower part of a photo if I were to park NW of the hat, on the rise on the LH side of this photo.  Who's is the astronomy geek now.

Lots of people on the sides of the road and on top of hills and such.  There was a group of 15-20 astronomy nerds (in a very good way) next to us who traveled from France to this spot to watch.  They made it an astronomy tour of AZ visiting the big observatories that are here, Kitt Peak National Observatory, Mt Graham International Observatory, and Lowell Observatory (best known for discovering Pluto).  Talking with them about the annular eclipse was like talking to a 4 year old who just learned that dinosaurs existed.  And they had some awesome equipment to track and photograph and more than willing to show it all to us.  I had the lens out of my welding hood and an iPhone.

The cool part of my photos were the blueish glare spot on the photo which showed the eclipse.  I did not even realize this spot showed the eclipse until a week or so after getting home.   A happy accident.  One of these is the partial eclipse and the other has the full annular showing the ring of the sun with the center blocked by the moon.  Apparently it is kind of a big deal to those (not me) in the know.  My mapping and internet sextant skills worked.  The photos through the welding lens are not worthy to show.

 

This is what I took of pictures from that day. I haven't seen one since grade school. That one was more impressive to me. It covered the whole sun that day. I do not remember ever hearing of another passing over that area of that state the whole time I lived there.

Got up early Sunday morning, having a cup of coffee watching the turkeys strut around the yard; it's mating season so 4 hens and 3 Toms were dancing, Toms were in full bloom.  Then BOOM!! Giant flash of green and the power goes out.  I thought someone took a shot at the turkeys, but it was a transformer a block away.  

A wire came down between the house and the one next door.  Power company guy said the wire heat was about 3,000 degrees, actually melted the asphalt.

Boom trucks, fire trucks, entertaining and power was back in about an hour.  We celebrated by going to Cafe Dolce for breakfast.

Woody - God bless ya for wheeling a rig like that around these old carriage roads lined with rock!

It's Puppy-Chino; whipped warm milk, no coffee.

I got shot this morning, yikes. Wayward hopefully

Slayer day back when I was a welder. 

"It smells like gas"