Transit of Venus

About 5:00 p.m.

Well, I haven't been out here for a few days because I didn't have much of interest to write about.

About 6 p.m.

Today, starting about 5:00 p.m. we watched the Transit of Venus.  This will not be seen again in our lifetime, for another 117 years.  We set up the telescope with the filter at Stonehenge on the MST campus in Rolla and had several people come by and take a look through the scope and our friends Tom and Lana Vandoren with their two grandchildren came by too.  They were going to Alex's for pizza and brought us back one so that was very much appreciated.
We left MST around 7:15 or so and Hardy came on home in the truck and I went to Walmart to pick up a few things.  I had the telescope with me so he wasn't able to watch the sun until I got home and it was after 8:00 by that time so we watched it on NASA televised.

About 7 p.m.

We had taken our truck into the garage this morning to get it checked out before we went on our long trip this summer.  When we came back home our resident black snake was crawling for the door of the garage.  I told Hardy to put the door down before the snake got in and it came down on his little back so about 6 inches of him was caught under the door.  He hurried and raised the door back up and he crawled out and went to the side of the overhang to recuperate.  A little later he came out from the garage area and crawled over to his little home in one of the tires  where I have plants.  Poor little guy was probably in shock.  He is about 5 feet long and had just shed his skin (right in the flower bed in front of the house).

We also had the hot tub guy out this morning to see if he could repair the hot tub.  He called and told Hardy it was the breaker so we when we were in Rolla we bought another breaker.  We shall see if that works or not.