BBQ and Froyo

Today is the Autumnal Equinox and Summer is over. The Earth will be tilted away from the Sun for the  next 6 months. It is time to get pasty people!

Basil and Lucy, or as I like to call her, Lemon Drop, just got me up from a food-induced nap. They are an hour early for their trek to the golf course. LD is particularly persistent using her sharp claws to poke you. Susan and I had a nice lunch at Green's BBQ just north of us in Gantt, Alabama. In a role reversal, I ordered a BBQ sandwich and onion rings off the menu while Susan hit the buffet. The BBQ was excellent and though I know better, the onion rings are great but rough off on the stomach. Susan got her fill of fried okra (I don't get the appeal myself), maters, slaw, tater salad, and scalloped taters.

Ms. Susan needed to drop off some donations at goodwill and afterward we hit the new froyo place on the square. I got lemon ice box with graham cracker sprinkles (very good) and Susan opted for strawberry with fresh strawberry. We walked around the square for a bit, staring into the old CCB building, Wards, and Timmerman building. I discovered that the Timmerman building is built of fossiliferous limestone. I found some beautiful bryozoans embedded in it.

On the drive home a katydid hitchhiked on my window. Susan tried to take a photo of it through the glass but the camera kept focusing on the landscape behind. I enjoyed watching to breathe through it s thorax and first few ab segments. We dropped it off in Susan's favorite neighborhood.

One more week of September left. I am on stars right now in PHS 111 so I will need to repair the telescopes if I am going to take them out this week. Like an idiot I discovered that we have missed the evening planet window. If you want to see Jupiter you gotta wait until the early AM. Saturn just moved to days entirely. Just the moon and stars are on tap this semester. I invented a constellation lab and tried it out Thursday. I kept wondering why the planispheres didn't match the website printout I had used. Shane the idiot thought 19 hours was 9 PM. Nope, it is only 7 so my students were struggling. I forged ahead acting like nothing was wrong. I've got to admit my error on Tuesday.

The biological imperative has been extremely persistent of late. I don't know if it is normal or due to my brain becoming med-free. It is going to get me in trouble. I am sure the BD wish from Surfbabe hasn't helped. Party on Garth!