Eclipse-a-somnia

There is no good explanation for my waking up at two in the morning and not being able to go back to sleep until 5:15, so I am blaming it on the eclipse. Seems like a fine theory since so many of my friends also appeared to be awake in the early morning hours today.
It would not have been so bad if I didn’t have to get up at 6:45 to go workout. Turns out my trainer, Inman, also had eclipse-a-somnia so she was up for my revised workout suggestion. The eclipse must have been have a bigger effect on many Durhamites because no one was at they gym and the usually full parking lot of the office building it is in was practically empty. Even Russ worked at home today so he could view the eclipse with both me and Carter.

Thank goodness I had ordered a set of thee glasses since we all were enthralled with the ever thinning sliver of sun.
My bonus daughter, Ashley and her Mom and sister Kaylee came over to view the phenomenon at our house. Since we wee in the 95% zone we had a good view of a tiny sliver of sun, but were amazed at how much light five percent of the sun still gives out.

At the start of the eclipse I took a picture of our front walkway. The shadow made of the crepe Myrtle was like it always is. As the sky darkened slightly as the eclipse went on the most interesting thing to me was how the shadow of the crepe Myrtle changed to have these little finger nail slivers of light. It was as if the shadow was reflecting the sun.
Everything went off just as the scientists predicted. My hope is that this will help the climate change disbelievers to consider that scientist know what they are talking about. Not that the idiot in charge will change, but maybe some of the other climate deniers will come around.  

I was happy we did not have cloud cover and got to enjoy the full effect. It is much better to have stayed home to see 95% than to have traveled somewhere and had clouds or rain.
Of course we are all addicted to eclipses now and are looking forward to the next one in seven years. I carefully stored the eclipse glasses in the front hall drawer. Let’s see if I can remember where they are in seven years.  I hope I don’t lose any sleep over that.