8/27/2017

Weekly Update 8/27/2017

This week began with an amazing and once-in-a lifetime event - the solar eclipse.  I'd been undecided about how, or even if, to watch.  I had my glasses, and thought I would drive north to South Carolina where I could be almost at the edge of the path.  But I wasn't sure if I wanted to battle traffic, or what to do if the weather didn't cooperate, or even what I would feel like that morning when I got up. But, hey, this is not something I can pass up now and catch tomorrow or next week - it was now or never.  When Barbara texted early to see what time I was going to leave, I got ready and went.  We drove about an hour and a half north, and although it was cloudy, we saw some really fantastic views of the moon beginning it's journey across the sun, and it did go totally dark at the height of the eclipse.  The pictures attached here are not mine, but were taken by my friend, Don Teuton, who is a professional, and he was watching from almost the same location.  This is pretty much what we saw.  

Barbara and me, prepared not to go blind

Thursday was a Lunch Bunch "meeting".  A new restaurant opened in a hotel at Tybee, The Deck, and we went there to check it out.  

I'm way in the back with the great tan

My friend Jane had a visitor this week - her son Colin who lives in Charlotte NC.  She wanted to get together with some of her friends here to introduce them to him, so a few of us went to the Crystal Beer Parlor for something to eat, then to The 90 for drinks.  It was great to meet him, and fun to be with these friends.  We walked to the CBP, and it was really a nice evening for that - not as hot as it has been, and a nice breeze was keeping things pleasant.  It was a little embarrassing for me to be in public with a Bills shirt on, since the season hasn't even started yet, and I have no illusions about a great 2017 season, but there I was.   

Eddie, his mom, Connie, me (in the bills shirt), Jane & Colin