It was a cloudy shitty day in the Texas Hill Country for the much hyped solar eclipse. My cousin Eddie’s house is in the direct path of totality. We have been anticipating this day for over a year. The event was to begin at 12:15pm, totality at 1:34pm, then it’d all be over at 2:56pm. At 7am, I began announcing, “It’s the big bust.” Of course, being myself, I kept repeating myself, “It’s the big bust,” over and over, annoying my cousin and especially Amelia.
At 12:15pm we went outside, occasionally the sun would make it’s way through the clouds for a few seconds. You had to be quick or you’d miss it. This was definitely the big bust. Friends were texting us asking how the eclipse was going, I don’t know what Amelia was responding to her friends, but I was telling my friends it was definitely a big bust.
Then at 1:30pm, the magic began, it was noticeably getting darker. At 1:34pm, it was dark! Amazing! Totally bitchin’! Unreal! Then as quickly as it got dark, it began to get light again. The totality lasted three minutes and 58 seconds. It was not even close to being a big bust. It was awesome!
9:45am, our morning walk. Looking like a bust.
12:32pm
12:41pm, my cousin Eddie
1:30pm
1:32pm, it began to get darker.
1:32pm, Eddie’s solar powered lights lining his driveway came on.
1:33pm, that quick it was dark.
1:34pm, the best of the grainy photos
1:36pm, no filters, no editing, dark out. You can see Amelia’s iPhone light.
1:38pm, that quick the light returned.
Needles’ notes:
He enjoys life just like you and R, if you get my drift, so you’d like him for sure!
I’m making skull caps cool for guys in their 60s 😆.
Needles said what I was going to say…the shirt and the red wine ROCK!!
I am so glad it wasn’t a Big Bust (Although, Amy and I would have to start singing, “I like big bust and I cannot lie! You other brothers can’t deny!”
The solar lights going on is cool beans!
Love,
Jean
What a trip! So glad you got that experience! Love the lights! Crazy!
So awesome you got the experience the eclipse!
that midday eclipse darkness capture 🤙🏽
Thanks Little P! I was literally just asking Amelia about you. I was concerned because you hadn’t been doing Wordle lately
LOL, I know! Now that you’re reminding me & I have some peace and quiet, I am going to play right now! 😊