Cabin Fever

The clouds cleared off last night in time for us to watch the lunar eclipse. At 9:00pm EST Mark called into me that the eclipse was going on, and we had a great view. Since we are in the middle of nowhere, there are no bright city lights. The moon and stars are always spectacular. Once we got out in the street, everyone started coming out. Our neighbor Ed brought out his high-powered binoculars for everyone to see. (Hint to our kids - maybe for Christmas next year we could get some good binoculars.) After two hours, the street party began to break up. The old folks needed to get some shut-eye.

We got in just in time for the 11:00pm news item that the missile hit the satellite. Yippee. Pretty neat visuals of that on TV.

We had rain most of the day. I did, however, enjoy a two hour nap. After waking with a killer sinus headache that just wouldn't go away, I took one "non-drowsy" pill, and it was nighty-night time for a couple of hours. I'm happy to report that 12.5 hours after waking with it early this morning - it is gone!

Since we were inside most of the day, Mark got to watch a LOT of tv. One of channels he frequently surfed to was The Weather Channel. This was exciting for us, because one of the reporters, Jim Cantori, happened to be televising from St. Louis all day. We got to witness secondhand the bad weather friends and family had to endure today. Jim informed us just an hour ago, that you all will have to put up with the bad weather again tomorrow. Be safe everyone.

Once the rain stopped around 5:00pm, it was like someone opened the flood gates, and everyone came outside. Everyone had cabin fever - except me of course. We got to walk around the park and visit with friends for a while before grilling steaks for dinner.