Thank Our Lucky Stars: The Great American Eclipse: Path of Totality

August 2017

Some positives about being stuck in Nebraska longer than we planned. We got to go to 2 family reunions. One from Larry’s dad’s side and one from his mom’s!

It was great seeing all the Aunts, Uncles and Cousins!
A couple of problems: at the first reunion it was mine and Larry's job to greet everyone and get them registered (I made a family directory) so neither one of us took pictures. Then the next reunion was after Larry's surgery. He was a little out of it and I was concerned with no one bumping his arm
so again, no pictures!

But a plus I did get pictures of:

We were in the Path of Totality for the eclipse!

That was awesome!

The day began as a disappointingly cloudy one. But with the glasses Gus (Larry’s dad) got, we could watch the progression of the eclipse through to total even with the clouds. We sat outside in the backyard chatting and staring at the sun. (glasses on of course) When the eclipse went total for about 2 minutes we didn’t need the glasses and the ring pierced the clouds! It was magnificent! As soon as it went total we could hear the OOOOs and AAAAs of the neighbors.

Apparently we weren’t the only ones sitting in the backyard enjoying the celestial spectacle.

The funniest part: Gus had been telling us about a loose rooster running around the neighborhood, especially his backyard. It was driving him nuts. It didn’t seem to belong to anyone and Gus kept trying to catch it, I think for dinner. We visited them occasionally and never actually saw the bird. So… did it really exist or was Gus just getting old. But right, on que, when the sun went dark the rooster started crowing. We still didn't see it, so no pictures, but we know it's real!