I got up for the usual reasons last night at 2:30, then went out to look up and see if the sky was worth watching during the meteor shower. I didn’t see much, so I went in and spent the next hour learning more about where to look and be sure I had the location of the Perseus constellation worked out. I got the girls up at 3:30 and then woke Missus up so she could start her day. The girls and I set up out front of the house and watched for falling stars. I think we must have got to seeing a falling star once every minute or two. We also were spotting satellites at nearly the same rate.
We decided the planet we were looking at in the southeast sky was Uranus, so that made orienting some of the streaks pretty entertaining in an elementary form. We are not amazing at our sky map, so we had to use some basic markers and places on the ground. The shooting stars were just about everywhere in the sky.
My oldest daughter kept saying how she saw the shooting stars out the corner of her eye. We decided then that the All-Seeing Eye has nothing on the Corner of Her Eye. The Corner of Her Eye seems to never miss anything. If you are worried about Santa’s elves watching you, well they ain’t got nothing on Kiry’s Corner of Her Eye.
Wel, it’s going to be a hot one this week. We are going to get to the mid 90’s. While it has been a fair dinkum warm summer, it has not been the hottest here. It has been hot, but it has not set records.
Watching what has happened in Hawaii has been heartbreaking. As of this morning there are 93 confirmed dead. Some of the video and some of the stories of survivors have been harrowing. We used to look so far back into history to learn about the London fire. I hear Moscow used to be built and rebuild from wood and burned down a lot. But it seems like we are getting doses of historical events as dense as all of our known history now. Of all the towns and cities I have heard of burning down, half of them have been in the last five years. The news is saying there are still a thousand people unaccounted for. Is this the way of the world now?
I leave it at that. Time to get my day started.