looking past the eclipse
I eagerly await Monday, but not to see TV coverage of a five minute event on which millions of people will spend billions of dollars. I don’t need any reminders why this species is too foolish to survive. Rather, I get my hopefully non-punctured lung X-rayed so my surgeon can take me off light duty.
Random Chance bless March Madness for providing some superb basketball, even as my beloved San Francisco Giants stumble to a 3 and 5 start. Fortunately, the Golden State Warriors are starting to get it together.
Our farm is trapped in a Groundhog’s Day kinda thing. Since March 19th our high to low temperature range hasn’t exceeded 14 C. (57 F.) or dropped below 9 (48). Eight of those days only had a two degree variance, and four days only one degree. This cool spell has not deterred our flora and fauna, fortunately. Our snowdrops had their usual stay, now yielding to daffodils, and the maple trees are budding. A heron and a pair of common merganzer ducks are on Pond Near. The ducks, by the way, are anything but common. The female looks like a punk rocker.
We’ve also seen a snake already. It’s the little things.
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Anchor Struck 
We keep getting rain warnings but no rain. It says it is raining right now and nothing. The sun doesn’t shine very often so it is dry and cloudy. It is very dry! Meanwhile in Arizona and California they are getting lots of rain. I hear the desserts are beautiful.
AP, I wish you the best in medical findings tomorrow-most everyone we know are staying in Pittsburg to hopefully catch a fleeting glimpse of the 94% darkening of El Sol, though we do have one friend who is already in the hills of Kentucky for the full-meal deal as he has relatives there. I recall a partial eclipse in the 80s and we made pin-hole indirect viewers for Science studies for the kids living at RCY(Children’s Court Center)-also used the welding helmet and goggles from the shop there for full front viewing… As the 1950s song and you alluded, “little things mean a lot”…Peace, Marine
Simper Fi
JB and The Colonel