Ray's Thought for the Day - Rainfall Update and False Earth Star - A Fresher One

It is Day 115 of DY 1, a delicious cinnamon bun day. Praise the Goddess. Whoa! I need to go check the gauge.

Later.

Yikes! We had maybe 0.1" in the gauge plus two of Rayetta's butterflies. Mercy! My first thought was, I'll take a picture of these two butterflies that have verily drowned themselves in the gauge. But lo and behold, those butterflies were still kickin'. So then I dumped the twain of them out and ran off to get the trusty C 5060 WZ. I was only gone and instant, but when I got back to the scene of the near drowning incident, one of the twain had already flown off. Only this one remained.

Will it survive its terrible near drowning? Those antennae look perky. That's a good sign.

So the new rainfall total for DY 1, Day 115 is 17.39" + 0.1" = 17.49". In reality we may have gotten more than that. But nearly all the rain last night fell sidewise, missing the gauge, entirely.

Seldom during my wanderings in the wilderness have I encountered a false earth star whose wad was not shot. This is as close to that, as I have got.