Scarlet Pimpernel

Ding, ding, ding, ding! We have a winner! Yes, the obvious solution (in addition to paid time off and sick leave) would be paid HOLDAY leave for major holidays!!

Totally agree as well! I thought it was bad years ago when an occasional store was open on Thanksgiving Day...and then as you say, more and more have been doing so since. I refuse to do any kind of shopping on Thanksgiving or Christmas. I do everything I can to have what I need (for baking, cooking, etc.) beforehand. And if I happen forget something (usually really minor anyhow), well then I figure that's too bad, I still won't go out and get it on the holiday itself.

Now you're just in a state of Denial!!

Haha! Did it go to a recount?!

He's Bull-something, that's for sure!!

What is this "winter" you speak of? But seriously, yeah, coming out of hibernation now myself! Hope you are well, Millville!!

Vote early...vote often!!!

I used a 100-400mm lens at 400mm with a 1.4x adapter on my Canon, so that gave an effective 560mm focal length. Didn't rotate it or anything, that's how it was visible with the naked eye as well. That lens is a beast...like 3.5 pounds...but it's awesome! And thank goodness for image stabilization!

Not sure I can ever eat hotdogs again...

Hahaha! I was just thinking the same thing...that must be a record number of weenies received for a post. I chucked another one his way just to be sure!

Very nice! Interesting how yours has a "rotated" perspective from mine. Another interesting thing I noticed is how there is a nearly straight line where the penumbral shadow ended (where it gets very bright white at the edge).

Dragged myself out of bed a bit after 4AM for the partial lunar eclipse. A little later than I cared to, as the peak occurred a little before this photo I took. But still worked out!

-----(to infinity)PNA!!!!! (just to upstage CAPE there, hahaha!!). But could that actually work if we also have a -----(infinity)NAO??? The mind wonders!!

But you know there's a good chance the December thread could turn into...

I read that the WTF index is very unfavorable, too.

Cool, thanks for the info!! Unfortunately it's at the peak around 4AM, but I might try to drag myself out of bed to check it out anyhow. Hopefully will be cleared out mostly by then. I read that it's not "total", but still like 97%.

Don't forget the -PNA!!! That plays a role too!

Moon at dusk this evening...

Hello, Mrs. J!! Damn that looks good!! I'm getting hungry again and it's 10:30PM as I look at this hahaha! Is that a bad thing? How are you? Hope all is well...

Well, maybe one more!

Here are some I took over the past few weeks. Sending in 3 posts to avoid being too large...

Interesting...thanks for that information. I guess it makes sense that as you get ~6" snow there would be fewer accidents at least in part because people aren't daring to go out on the roads. Unlike for small events like that mini-clipper. Though it was frustrating at the time (and scary, but mostly due to some idiots thinking that you can drive normally on ice or spin their wheels hard if they're stuck or swerving!)...I certainly could see that a lot of focus and preparation was for the upcoming major storm.

Yeah I remember that all too well! Not that I minded the mini-clipper with an inch of snow as a sort of "appetizer" before the big storm. But the roads were awful, even main ones! I dropped my daughter off at her ballet class (Wash. School of Ballet, down near the Cathedral). No problems, but it had just started to snow on my return home. I then got a call that the class was ended early due to the road conditions. It took me an hour or more to get there from my place (normally took like 20 minutes). Wisconsin Avenue was an ice rink. Coming back home, it took literally 2 hours (!!!!) of white-knuckle driving in that mess. It was after 11PM by the time we got home, and that's after leaving the ballet school around 9. I was shocked at how apparently nothing was done to even the main roads before that...it's not like that light snow was unexpected. But of course by then, all the focus was on the big event later in the week, so it may have (literally?) flown under the radar.