August 21st
Did you see the solar eclipse? I did, and it was awesome!
So, Francine brought us special glasses so we could see the eclipse without worrying of going blind. She didn't bring them for me, so I had to share with Roger (and by share, I mean steal. Well, I wanted to see, and this doesn't happen every day. It's rare! Some people may only see it once in their lifetime!
We saw the moon move closer, and closer to the sun, and then it got really dark (the glasses made it really dark too).
I hear animals get spooked by it because they don't know what's happening (I bet it's funny to see)! Oh, yeah, we did see some going crazy! One of the neighbor's dogs got so scared that he ran out into the street, and almost got run over, it was funny; the dog going crazy part, not almost getting run over. Birds flew making lots of noise, and flying all over the place! Squirrels ran, and hid in bushes, or in trees. You'd swear an apocalypse was on the rise on how these animals were acting!
If you missed this one, that's a shame. But don't worry, the next one visible to America won't happen until 2024, then the next one is 2045 I think. If you miss the 45 one then you might be out of luck, or you might not, idk. If you're really desperate and can't wait, or think you'll die before the next one, you can go to different countries, and see some that way.
So, as you see, this isn't really an once-in-a-lifetime event. But, it might if you die before the next one (due to gun violence, and terrible things happening in the world nowadays, sadly it might be a higher possibility now). But, I don't want to scare you, so think happy thoughts!
The last total one from coast to coast occurred 99 years ago, in 1918; wow! How the world changed since then!
So, hopefully (and this is going to sound redundant), I'm in my human body for the next one; hopefully two! I highly doubt I'll still be blogging in seven years, but only time will tell.