April 8, 2024
Today is the eclipse. I made enough cookies to last a couple of days so no baking. For breakfast we served a Berry Cheesecake Yogurt, the Amish Casserole, and sausage. People have been enjoying the food. Hardly any leftovers again. I don’t want to spend a lot of time prepping so I planned the menu accordingly. We also have a cottage that we rent out and it had some wonderful people in it. Before I started dishes, I went out and set up my lawn chair. It takes a while to do dishes from a large breakfast.
Between loads of dishes I set up my chair to view the eclipse., I was talking to our guests from the cottage and as they are not a part of breakfast or snacks as they have a full kitchen in the cottage. So I went inside and brought out a few chocolate chip cookies for them. They loved them.
I just finished up and as I was walking outside, one of the cottage guests said they were about to come get me. It was almost time for the eclipse. It was very cool to sit with all these people in our back yard and see the eclipse and socialize. The one gentleman in the cottage is a professional photographer. He had quite the set up and we were able to see some amazing images. He has posted them on his website Reflections of Thought. Totality lasted at a maximum of 4 minutes and 27 seconds. We were in the right place as we witnessed 4 minutes and 14 seconds. Was really neat how you could feel the temperature drop and see the sunset at 2:00PM. And then to feel the warmth again. All through this past weekend, we had a festival going on in town. They had the Square blocked off, food trucks, vendors, etc. We had not been a part of it yet as we have been busy. Today was going to be our day to explore the festival. I decided I wasn’t cooking tonight either. So we listened to some music, walked around the various vendors and found a food truck for dinner.
