Today marks the climax of a week full of remarkable celestial events. It started out with an amazing display of the Aurora Borealis earlier this week, and today there will be both a “Super Moon” and a Total Eclipse of the Sun.
That would be a pretty big deal except that here at the Boggy Thicket we are not in a position to see the Northern Lights or the Eclipse. In fact, the Eclipse will only appear to be Total for a few dozen Laplanders, or whoever lives in the Arctic north of Europe.
Here at home – as has proven true for most recent cosmic events – we couldn’t see it anyway. We have overcast skies and a 30% probability of rain.
Spring does actually begin this afternoon. The Vernal Equinox will occur at 5:45 p.m. whether it’s raining or not. I guess we should be grateful for that.
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Updating yesterday’s post - Spring did arrive on schedule, with partly cloudy skies and 80 degrees. Meanwhile, a Czech tourist, who was camping on an island north of Norway to see the eclipse, was attacked in his pup tent by a Polar Bear!
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