Watching the sky

This is a good and a bad post.

Let’s start first with the bad post. There was a severe solar storm that hit the Earth today that created a pretty big jot. The jolt could affect power grids and GPS tracking. OK, so that’s the bad part.

Now the good part. For some reason, this solar storm is pushing the colorful northern lights further south than normal. And with this storm ranking at a 4 (severe by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) in a scale of 1 to 5, well SHAZAM!

So of course about every 20 minutes or so I grab the camera and pick up Checkers and Smoochie the cat and with the dogs right beside me, we all head up north of the barn to see just what we can see. Now I’m a terrible picture taker at night, but I’d give it my all if the lights were cool enough to snap a few pictures. 

But for now? Well, it’s just the cats, dogs, and even the cows were wondering just what in the world that I was doing. I’m not thinking that they’re minding our trips tonight at all. The dogs got a couple of sets of treats already and tons of attention tonight along with the cats are being carried all around the farm. But as for the lights? I can’t see anything yet.  I guess I’ll keep checking the northern sky until it’s time to go to bed.

The picture of the day is that of my new batch of Lavender soap that I cut. I wanted to see how much coloring it took to make it a lavender color. Yea.. obviously more than I used on this batch!

Lavender soap with lavender flowers infused in it. My kitchen is smell’n good!