2024 Happy Blog Challenge Continues

I fell asleep often writing this.  Here are some happy things from today: My friend Stephanie and I got things mostly packed up in camp and headed for the Milan Hill Fire Tower.  It is located within the campground we were at so it wasn't really hard to find.  There is a picnic pavilion and yard that make this a neat outside party destination.  There were more spectacular mountain views.  We saw the hills we drove through to get there.  Somehow I forgot to take the selfie on top of the Fire Tower.  Instead of climbing back up, I took a picture of me at the bottom. We had our tents set up in this lean-to.  The trail up. That was it. Pretty much all of it. Geo marker! Selfie. After, we finished packing and we headed home.  In Franconia Notch we pulled over for a pit stop and saw the Basin.  The Basin brings back memories for me of when I was very young.  The memories are faded enough that they could have happened at some other flowing...

Today April 8, 2024, there was a total eclipse of the sun.  Here are some happy things: Somehow, the drive to the other side of Vermont didn't seem as long as I expected.  Maybe that was because Zed was driving.  I was able to go between looking at the beautiful scenery and playing games on my phone.  We arrived at our planned location, St. Albans, VT, a little after 8:00 AM.  The eclipse didn't start until after 2:00 PM.  We had time to kill.  I had some anxiety about traffic on the way there, we missed any morning traffic. We found a place at the park to set up and I went back to the car to try to take a nap. When I got back to our spot, someone with musical instruments had set up not far from us.  Not only did we have some lovely music to listen to, they had many instruments and Gideon was able to go over there and play instruments with them.  We made sure to thank them for their time and attention to Gideon during the day.  We also t...