Oh, it was something.
I’m usually up until 2:00 a.m. or so and thought I had it made to shift right into skywatch mode. By 2:30 a.m. I was exhausted, however, and crawled into bed beside the warm pretty one. Half an hour later, I awakened from a half-sleep when she suddenly got up. She’d been lying awake wondering what to tell her hairdresser in the morning, right, and then remembered the eclipse (with the full moon in her sign).
I got up too and went outside. She was sitting in her bathrobe in a lawn chair in the driveway with the neighbor’s cat on her lap. It was 50 degrees, and the moon already had a chomp out of it. I pulled up another chair and sat with her for about an hour until the last bright crescent light was gone, and all we could see was a glowing orange orb beside the Milky Way.
We were both shivering when we went back to bed. She put on socks. I slept until 8:45 a.m., and that’s the end of that.
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