{"id":11179,"date":"2021-11-19T08:02:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T16:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=11179"},"modified":"2021-11-19T08:12:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T16:12:22","slug":"well-i-tried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2021\/11\/19\/well-i-tried\/","title":{"rendered":"Well I tried…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last night there was a lunar eclipse. This one was a super long one, only happening once in 1000 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In honor of the duration and rarity of the event I stayed up past my bedtime and walked out onto the deck to do what we often don’t do enough of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I looked up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first time I went out, the sky was clear, with just a bit of haze and I could see the beginning of the eclipse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Unfortunately my phone couldn’t. But this is what the beginning of the eclipse looked like and I thought I was going to be golden for the whole event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’d already heard from some friends “Down Below” (Yeah I live on a mountain and am elitist about it, So what!) that they were experiencing fog and cloudy conditions so they couldn’t see anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I smugly went back inside to warm up, secure in the knowledge that I’d be able to see the whole show. (Ahem! Mother Nature why do you hate me?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I went back out about 30 minutes later to this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What we have here is clear proof that A) Mother Nature hates me, and B) She has a cruel sense of humor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’ll notice, this is a band of clouds, a single strip, the skies are relatively clear on either side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rest of the eclipse was more of the same from my vantage point. A strip of clouds that was moving in just the right direction to look like a curtain pulled across this celestial event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like I said Mother Nature hates my sorry ass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There was a thinning of the clouds, and I could see the shadow covering part of the moon, the camera was even able to catch it, but much of the rest of the event was hidden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From this picture, you can see that Mother Nature is also a bit of a tease. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That being said, I tried my best. I’m sure that Mother Nature is having a good laugh with friends this morning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Oh, Poseidon you should have seen the look on this one guys face when I painted over the moon with clouds! I haven’t seen a look that sad in millennia. Not since that poor tourist spent his life savings to visit Atlantis only to arrive just as it sunk. Hahahahahaha!<\/em>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes indeed the gods are capricious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hope you have a good day and pleasant weekend. I’m going to take a mid-day siesta and hope that there’s not an earthquake! (Poseidon, Hephaestus, I’m looking at you guys! No angry earth movements or accidents at the forge today please.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Last night there was a lunar eclipse. This one was a super long one, only happening once in 1000 years. In honor of the duration and rarity of the event I stayed up past my bedtime and walked out onto the deck to do what we often don’t do enough of. I looked up. The … <\/p>\n

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