The Super Blood Moon and "Working" in South Texas

We had heard the hype about the "super blood wolf moon" on the national news, so we made plans to stay up to see it. We had a nice clear evening, so we were treated with a clear view of this lunar eclipse several nights ago. We first took pictures when the bright full moon was in full view of the palm tree in our back yard. In the picture below, the lunar eclipse is just starting, taking its first nip out of the bottom of the moon.

Then we watched as the moon traveled into the earth's shadow. According to one of the sources we read, the red color we are beginning to see is because the moon is only receiving the red filtered light from the earth's surface.

Even at 10:30 p.m. we were outside in our shirt sleeves here in south Texas. We were getting sore necks from looking up high in the sky as the bright edge of the moon became just a little cap on the red moon. It feels like we are witnessing another of God's wonders!

It's not a great picture, but it's the best our camera could do of the historical super blood wolf moon over South Texas. We'll have to wait 2.5 more years for another spectacle like this.

Just in case you should think that our life in South Texas is just gazing at the moon at night and lounging by the pool during the day, we do work occasionally. Mark is doing handy-man projects at his mother-in-law's house. He has updated her wifi, and worked on her bathroom plumbing. We even  have pictorial evidence that we actually do some work.  We spent a good part of one day raking leaves at Denisa's Mother's place. Those ten bags of leaves are evidence that we actually do work some times.

After all that raking, the grass underneath had to be mowed. The lawns aren't big, so Mark is still smiling doing lawn work on a beautiful blue sky day.

There's also the work of picking fruit, most of which we eat fresh. But we are also juicing until our freezer is full, so we can enjoy this taste of sunshine even after we leave the valley. While Mark is working at juicing, he's also watching some football on another beautiful day.

This might be stretching it a little, but there's also the work of deciding where to eat each evening. We do cook a couple times each week. Then several days we eat meals at the cafe at the rec hall inside the park. But on other nights, someone has to find the best places to eat among the hundreds of choices in the Rio Grande Valley. This is a fun place that we have revisited several times. It's a little odd to find a little German restaurant among the palm trees, but we recommend Schneider's German Gasthaus and Biergarten.

It's another day in paradise, as we're working our way through more of God's wonders.