NE Bama 97 percent eclipse

  I have a lot of reporting to about the memorable day of August 21, 2017. I was getting excited but it took off for me about 2:07 EDT when some new friends handed me some official eclipse glasses when a woman came in a burger joint all excited what she had seen out the window coming down 59. I think she was from jasper Tenn or was haulin that way.

   I looked through them and I was hooked. Shared them with some constructionworkers, and it seemed to brighten their day as well.

   Talked to some new friends from Sunday Stephens  in  Hoover who'd pulled off the HWY at Martins and were gazin. Shared some info with them and vice versa reciprocity likewise.

   As planned went on downtown to share the experience with the locals at Patriots Park between the Lyberry and the RR where (name later) from UBama saw the "wildly flapping gobblers" out the RR window going toward Chattanooga at the 1927 Turkey Trot.

   But nobody was gathering there. I saw Lori and her friends Mike and Jeff at City Hall out in Lounge Chairs with the Mayor and Constable Bowen so I parked there.   We got full dose at 2:37, 1:37 Bama Time EDT.

   I thought it was Sabanesque, even at 97 percent full throttle, but have come to understand, to concede its the last three percent that gets you there.

   Had some interesting conversations couple hours later back at exit 205 who had experienced totality at points north of Chattanooga, Cleveland, Athens, Knoxville and Tellico Plains.

   I think Thomas Barskdale went to Nashville with his granddaughter Brooklyn but yet to confirm.

   Hats off to Katie and family on the Clemson lake, friends in Greer and Furman, and the folks in Chester and Laurens and Clinton SC who got their picture took for the New Yorker album.

   Was gonna put on my Jesus and the Confederate Flag Tee Shirt to for added history, (Eclipse, get it) but the Holy Spirit or the Moon and the Sun relieved me of that Notion at Decision Time.

    Did have brief but intense exchange with the local librarian as the moon was about 42 percent of its exit dalliance with the sun. I think she heard me clearly and understood my sentiments and won't forget my thoughts on the situation if she really ever had any doubts on the matter to begin with.

   So there was that and the barber and Kesha Butler at WV Graves and as billy bob said in The Man Who Wasn't There: "The Next Day Was a Saturday.

PS, BUT in Greenville SC even billy bob woulda been there like he said at Florence Alabama, been part of a Divine Process the engulfed Bob Jones AND Furman....


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