Just came out to my 86 year old parents

[steph2.0]

Ocular leakage Kendra, and not from looking into the sun.

Just... wonderful.

Stephanie

[tgirlamg]

Gorgeous Kendra!!!

We had no viewing due to gray skies

sure got dark though!!!!

My husband was up in the Bay Area and got to see it though!!!

Onward!!!

A 😀❤️🌻

[steph2.0]

We had no viewing due to gray skies

This is the best we got in central Florida. I had my old refractor scope set up with a projection screen, but my favorite shot was when some clouds obscured the sun just enough for a stopped-down direct shot from my phone.



Stephanie

[tgirlamg]

This is the best we got in central Florida. I had my old refractor scope set up with a projection screen, but my favorite shot was when some clouds obscured the sun just enough for a stopped-down direct shot from my phone.



Stephanie

Very Cool Steph!!! 😀❤️🌻!!!!

[steph2.0]

One last thing, then Kendra can have her thread back. Here's some fun data from my weather station. The temperature drop lags just behind the solar radiation...

Steph

[tgirlamg]

Here's some fun data from my weather station.

I like you already Steph! 😀!!!!

Onward we go!!!!

Ashley 😀❤️🌻

[Laurie]

Hi Kendra,

  That was a wonderful description and a wonderful story. Enjoy your day in Yellowstone tomorrow. I was there a few years ago and a geyser ate my hat. It was a nice felt cowboy hat that my friends in Mizzeri bought for me for my birthday. A gust of wind came up and blew it right off my head and into a geyser near Old Faithful. Sure hope no such mishaps befall you or your Mom and Dad while you are there. and oh, don't try petting the wildlife, they may eat you and we want you back here and back to work.

Hugs for all three of you.

   Laurie

[Lucy Ross]

 

My speech therapist had a brutally simple but true observation based on her experience with clients.  This is when you will find out if your parents truly love you.  She has seen a "redneck in a cowboy hat" totally embrace their child coming out as transgender without hesitation.  She has seen people you would expect to understand, just not get it at all.  She has given up trying to predict.  She said just do it and then I will know.

I've read hundreds of stories like that, online and in books.  About half of the transpeople I've spoken with did, too. I wonder how my friends will handle it; they won't freak out, I hope, they're a liberal bunch.  But you never know.

My Mom knew I was wearing her stuff when I was in my teens, I didn't get the whole "cover your tracks" thing.  She never brought it up, I'm pretty certain she'd be supportive of what I'm doing now.  Same with my Dad, once we were done shouting enough.     "He's what?  Huh?"  They're gone now, though.

[KathyLauren]

Kendra, that was a beautiful description of the eclipse.  How nice that you got to enjoy it with your parents!  And a great photo to remember it by.

Steph, as another weather nerd, that graph is fascinating!

[Kendra]

Ashley, sorry to hear your weather didn't cooperate.  I wasn't sure with my location - scattered clouds the day before and thunderstorms later in the week.  The day of the eclipse, no clouds anywhere and only a bit of smoke from forest fires in Montana which actually added to the 360 degree orange glow on the horizon.  Got lucky.

Stephanie that's an interesting graph, I'd never seen one.  The temperature drop I experienced seemed more drastic but that's probably due to UV radiation dropping or something like that.  My hands and feet were very cold.  But I have been much pickier about temperature after starting HRT... maybe the estradiol patch needs a warning to wear long sleeve shirt during a total eclipse.

Laurie I survived Yellowstone today.  Didn't see Yogi Bear.  One ornery bison blocked the road in front of my car on the northeast edge of the park (very little traffic there), I waited about 3 minutes for it to pick a lane as it was slowly wandering down the center line... finally found a safe place to drive slowly past it.  The thing turned its huge head and almost touched the car door - my dad's window was open.  Eeek.

[Laurie]

 Yeah them wild animals wandering around there just don't follow the rules of engagement at all.

Hugs,
   Laurie

[steph2.0]

Stephanie that's an interesting graph, I'd never seen one.  The temperature drop I experienced seemed more drastic but that's probably due to UV radiation dropping or something like that.  My hands and feet were very cold.

A bigger drop makes sense, not only since you were in the area of totality, but also because Rigby is over 4800 feet above sea level. My area had about 86% occlusion, and I'm at 60 feet. Plus, it's Florida in August! When the heat goes down, the relative humidity goes up.

On the other hand, some of it may have been imaginary. Here are the graphs for Ririe, ID, just east of Rigby.



The wind did drop a little, too, but not much.



I was surprised at how light it still was here with only 14% of the sun showing. I'm beginning to think that thing's even brighter than an Atomic Beam flashlight!

  But I have been much pickier about temperature after starting HRT... maybe the estradiol patch needs a warning to wear long sleeve shirt during a total eclipse.

That's on page 42 of the drug interaction sheets, under "Solar/Lunar/Terran Phenomena."

Geeky Steph [emoji68]

[HappyMoni]

Hey, H.....E.....Y, you mean girls won't let a buddy know you folks are having fun over here? I left this thread when Kendra was telling her very touching story. Now I find out you all are getting all giggly about weather charts and stuff. Really? I guess I'll go out in the backyard and eat worms.
Moni         

[Laurie]

Hey, H.....E.....Y, you mean girls won't let a buddy know you folks are having fun over here? I left this thread when Kendra was telling her very touching story. Now I find out you all are getting all giggly about weather charts and stuff. Really? I guess I'll go out in the backyard and eat worms.
Moni         

I want to watch... I'll bring a shovel... 

[steph2.0]

Hey, H.....E.....Y, you mean girls won't let a buddy know you folks are having fun over here? I left this thread when Kendra was telling her very touching story. Now I find out you all are getting all giggly about weather charts and stuff. Really? I guess I'll go out in the backyard and eat worms.
Moni         

Geek girls only. Everyone else can eat worms.

Sheesh, she leaves us alone so we have to make our own fun, and now she's getting all moanie about it.

Stephanie

[Cindy]

I was just getting ready for breakfast!!

[Laurie]

I was just getting ready for breakfast!!

Don't waste those on her Cindy. Let's go fishing!!

[steph2.0]

Don't waste those on her Cindy. Let's go fishing!!

Mmmm. Hard to find good gagh nowadays.

And if you don't know what that means, you ain't no geek girl.

Steph

[HappyMoni]

I was just getting ready for breakfast!!

Oh I see you found my 'Uncle Wigley.'  Ha, take that for a board game reference! My work here is done. Good Day. I said Good Day mean girl geeks!!!!!
Moni

[Laurie]

Mmmm. Hard to find good gagh nowadays.

And if you don't know what that means, you ain't no geek girl.

Steph

  Do I look like a Klingon or something?