[radu]

A little warm-up wouldn't be too bad but upper 80s IS a bit much. Warm enough you don't need to turn the heat on but cool enough to be comfy. Low 70s fits that bill.

Low 70s is where we should be this time of year and I wish we could have a long stretch of that. 50s is December weather and we aren't in December yet.

I don't know how you can stand all that weight on you when you sleep - - comforter, those throws. I'd feel like I was suffocating. LOL

I didn't realize the campus was that close to your house. You really didn't have far to drive at all. Very convenient.

Aren't the shadow crescents cool? I learned about them by accident in '94 when we had a partial eclipse here. I walked out onto the front porch with a piece of paper and a piece of cardboard with a pinhole in it. The sun was shining through the leaves of a holly tree and the shadow was across the sidewalk. I wondered why it looked so weird and bent down to get a good look. It was full of little shadow crescents.

I took a sheet to my brother's house when we went up to watch the total eclipse in 2017. I knew they hadn't seen them before and wanted to add a little something extra to the "show". The eclipse was about to go into totality when I took this shot of the crescents through the pine tree shade.

[gnarledmaw]

Im not that far away, you could send a bit up here.

Its been hitting 39 and the furnace is out.

I should just be glad it happened now before it gets cold.

[luvie]

Oh, that’s an awesome shot! I didn’t realize they did that, but Mark had two cameras set up to catch them. When the eclipse was at the peak, the little crescents turned into circles. So neat!

Those self-heating throws hardly weigh anything. But we keep it fairly cool in the house at night, and we’re both pretty cold-natured, so I just feel cuddled up with the covers and nice warm sweats. I sleep like a BABY when it’s fall and winter.

During summer, I never even had a top sheet. Just slept on the fitted bottom. Even thinking about how hot it was...even the walls of the house were warm [not much insulation in these older homes]....makes me start dreading it again. LOL!