I knew that there was going to be a lunar eclipse of the moon tonight and seriously I was even up at 2:30 to take a look. Well, I fell asleep on the couch and when I woke up, it was 2:30 in the morning is really how it went. I remembered about the lunar eclipse and the blood moon so I opened up the front door and walked outside on the porch to take a look. I didn’t see a moon, but I did see 5 little kitties all running towards me, so I hurried up and went back inside and shut the door. I was hoping that I could catch it on the way to work instead in the morning and went to bed. And guess what? I did exactly that! When I pulled out of the driveway the moon caught my eye and honestly it was pretty cool. It was really red and after trying to figure out just why the lunar eclipses make the moon red, this is what I found (and no there will not be a test afterwards)
“A lunar eclipse occurs when the sun, Earth and the full moon form a nearly straight line so that the full moon passes through the Earth’s shadow. The earth’s atmosphere extends about 50 miles above Earth’s surface. During a total lunar eclipse, when the moon is submerged in Earth’s shadow there is circular ring around Earth which the sun’s rays pass. Sunlight is made up of a range of frequencies and as the sunlight passes through the atmosphere, the green to violet portion of the light spectrum is filtered out and the reddish portion of the spectrum is least affected.” So the bottom line is that the red is the only part of the atmosphere that the sun is picking up when it shines past the earth to the moon. Well that is what I learned today!
So you can call the moon the Blood Moon or the Harvest Moon, but either way it was still pretty cool at 6:30 in the morning.
Daryl was able to get in the fields tonight to start to take out the soybeans. The weather was perfect and so far so good with the equipment. I don’t want to say anymore on that so I don’t jinx it. I did a little bit of running around for him getting stuff for the field and no matter how much we complain about the cell phone bill, those phones really do come in handy when it’s field work time. I took a couple of pictures in the field tonight. The first one is Daryl just getting started to combine the soybeans
the beans in the field
and Daryl of course after I brought out some stuff for him for the combine.
After the chores were done and the eggs picked, I spent some time working on getting organized for the fall . Out came and my planner and also some big ideas on organization. Yea, we’ll see how well I that all goes.
The photo of the day is that of Waffle. She’s probably the most sweetest of all the kitties and the most playful. She usually sits where no one can see her and then she comes out and ambushes them!