Getting Ready

PROVISIONAL: The Great Eclipse is closer and closer, and we spent today getting ready. Packing, and laying in supplies, which included everything from gasoline and flat tire fixer to Moon Pies and Sunny Delite. You know, all of the essentials!

Christian and the kids will strike out for points south at the crack o' dawn tomorrow, while I hold down the fort here with three dogs. Not sure whose assignment will be more challenging. 

We have been reading traffic reports all week and they are ugly, at best. Fingers crossed and hoping for some sort of miracle. The forecast is promising at this point, for the 10:21 a.m totality event! 

This cool video does a great job of explaining the phenomenon and getting us amped up for Monday!

IT'S A SIGN: Yesterday, we went to Wal-Mart and scored a couple of treasures. We had gone there to pick up a cute little billboard that I know we'll use lots for our many events.

 Cute, isn't it? (And, apparently, effective. The Seahawks won last night.)

An impulse buy was this ...

because everyone needs a panda mask.

When Annabelle and I saw the bin of them in the store, I knew we were going home with one. They had a rabbit (kind of scary, its ears were too short), a yellow bear, some kind of dog, and some cute sloth masks. We came home with the one and only panda one left.

Turns out these "Maskimals" are kind of a thing - nearly sold out nationwide. The one we scored was only $19, but they're being resold online for $70. Yowza. I should have bought them ALL!!