(sky, night watch, weather, health, f&f, cats)
I saw the comet -- barely -- last night. I think looking before the end of nautical twilight is probably too challenging at this point. It's coming down in brightness, so not as dramatic as a week ago. Also, most photos are timed exposures. As the moon rose, i could see how the contrast with the night sky changed. The moon rises later tonight, so i hope Christine and i can find a quiet place together. Last night i bumped into lots of retirees at Fearrington including a guy who spent the time announcing all his deductions about where it might be, as i used a star field app on my phone to point right at it.
https://www.cloudynights.com/uploads/monthly_10_2024/post-99-0-76622900-1728841562.jpg shows how
It's been a special year with a total eclipse, a comet, an unexpected fireball, and two nights with low latitude aurora (the second was last week!) -- plus plenty of satellite passes and a few quick meteors, as well.
https://pulse.climate.copernicus.eu/ shows another way the year has been remarkable, and the plot line weighs on me. And then there's the news.
Meanwhile:
I'm doing better than last week but picked up a course of antibiotics because of continued sinus pressure.
Christine's brother in law is still in the ICU. She's gone to be the family member at hand twice this week to give her sister and B's daughter L a rest. B's cousin-like-a-brother (who has not insignificant issues of his own) is apparently driving in from the west coast again. It's been such a hard year for B's heart: i sure hope the pain and challenge of right now translates to some more years of joy. I worry a little that the trauma - -and whit i hear about sure sounds traumatic -- will be hard to shake.
It makes me appreciate how well my dissociate-while-reading (or listening to a novel) coping "strategy" has been honed.
Elderly and literally pissy cats continue to make messes where it's easy to clean up, although last night's choice to pee on the scale -- a modern thing that is a clear piece of glass on top -- boggles my mind. How did he pee just there, on top, and not spill it any where? The surface tension was still keeping all the liquid on the top of the scale when i found it. I remain thankful they are both still with us, and generally they don't seem to be at a point where quality of life has tipped. Marlowe, the much younger girl cat, is attacking Luigi more often though, which i take as a sign of awareness of his weakness. I wish she would stop. It doesn't help that Edward knows he can start picking on Luigi, and Luigi will scream bloody murder, and the monkeys will get moving and get the next meal in the bowl.
Marlow picking on Luigi woke me up too early this morning.
The weather has changed and i've gotten chilled. Looks like it hit freezing in the front yard at 4 am this morning: today begins frost observation season! I hope the cover on the poblano pepper did its job: temperatures go back up so i didn't pick everything hoping to let it all keep ripening. Maybe the sheltered basil will make it too. I did pick the basil that was more likely to be frosted.
post-tags: sky, night watch, weather, health, f&f, cats
https://www.cloudynights.com/uploads/monthly_10_2024/post-99-0-76622900-1728841562.jpg shows how
It's been a special year with a total eclipse, a comet, an unexpected fireball, and two nights with low latitude aurora (the second was last week!) -- plus plenty of satellite passes and a few quick meteors, as well.
https://pulse.climate.copernicus.eu/ shows another way the year has been remarkable, and the plot line weighs on me. And then there's the news.
Meanwhile:
I'm doing better than last week but picked up a course of antibiotics because of continued sinus pressure.
Christine's brother in law is still in the ICU. She's gone to be the family member at hand twice this week to give her sister and B's daughter L a rest. B's cousin-like-a-brother (who has not insignificant issues of his own) is apparently driving in from the west coast again. It's been such a hard year for B's heart: i sure hope the pain and challenge of right now translates to some more years of joy. I worry a little that the trauma - -and whit i hear about sure sounds traumatic -- will be hard to shake.
It makes me appreciate how well my dissociate-while-reading (or listening to a novel) coping "strategy" has been honed.
Elderly and literally pissy cats continue to make messes where it's easy to clean up, although last night's choice to pee on the scale -- a modern thing that is a clear piece of glass on top -- boggles my mind. How did he pee just there, on top, and not spill it any where? The surface tension was still keeping all the liquid on the top of the scale when i found it. I remain thankful they are both still with us, and generally they don't seem to be at a point where quality of life has tipped. Marlowe, the much younger girl cat, is attacking Luigi more often though, which i take as a sign of awareness of his weakness. I wish she would stop. It doesn't help that Edward knows he can start picking on Luigi, and Luigi will scream bloody murder, and the monkeys will get moving and get the next meal in the bowl.
Marlow picking on Luigi woke me up too early this morning.
The weather has changed and i've gotten chilled. Looks like it hit freezing in the front yard at 4 am this morning: today begins frost observation season! I hope the cover on the poblano pepper did its job: temperatures go back up so i didn't pick everything hoping to let it all keep ripening. Maybe the sheltered basil will make it too. I did pick the basil that was more likely to be frosted.
post-tags: sky, night watch, weather, health, f&f, cats