The Great American Eclipse was truly the most awesome event we've ever experienced. We followed it with The Weather Channel as Stephanie Abrams shared her emotions in Madras, Oregon and on to Jackson Hole, Wyoming and as it approached Jim Cantore in Carbondale, Illinois we could see the eclipse beginning here. Cliff brought home two pair of NASA and AAS approved viewing glasses from his fire station after a NASA briefing at the Emergency Operations Center. We viewed the changes off and on until about ten minutes before totality when we sat outside with our viewing glasses. As darkness approached birds hushed and flocked to the trees in a hurry. The temperature dropped six degrees. Our totality lasted two minutes and twenty-eight seconds. Cliff said it was the best experience ever. It's an event we'll never forget.
Some days are full of doing tasks and chores that Cliff did for me. The floor wasn't that dirty but he enjoyed saying. "Guess I need to pull out the vacuum. I'm tripping over debris." I thanked him. Whenever I was in the kitchen trying out new recipes, making cookies or the double batch tapioca pudding for him, he was there beside (getting in my way sometimes) washing the utensils, pots/pans, cutting boards, drying them and putting everything back in their proper places only to have me take some things back out and reuse again. "I just washed that" he would state. He learned to ask if I were through with things before he cleaned up after me. I thanked him. He emptied the dishwasher when it was finished in such an orderly manner (getting in my way sometimes because I was also in the kitchen working but he wanted to be there with me). I thanked him. Every morning he made my bed reminding me of the order that the pillows needed to be placed. John&
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