As you can tell from the date, the Texas Trip was a bust.

Events roughly as they transpired may be found on their respective pages, Friday and Saturday.

Since this is Sunday, I'll start off with today's happenings:

Greg got up last night soon after Doug started snoring and went out to sleep in his truck. The rest of us slept pretty well, though.

We got up at about 05:30 and discussed the money situation; went to breakfast and got everything pretty well hashed out; we went back to the room and settled up; Doug and I wished them a good week fishing and were on our way back to Topeka.

We made the trip in about nine hours; the boat was swaying enough that we had to stay below the legal speed limit. Something about the trailer hitch on Gregs' truck being higher than the one on Dougs' truck.

Got to my house and unloaded me, and I got everything put back. On I-470 (in Topeka) we saw the van with Karen in it headed the other way. I had forgotten that she picked up Brian and assumed that she was taking him back to Lawrence.

So, the house was empty. I got unloaded and Doug went on his way; he will call me tonight and get me up to speed on the situation. In the meantime, I'm waiting for Karen and Lacee to get back. I just got a call from Kim (I had called over there and she saw the number on the caller ID) and she told me that Lacee was with Karen. I told Kim not to tell Karen that I was home if she went over there first.

Karen is going to be very surprised!

More later....

Yes, Karen was very surprised. Happy to see me, of course. I explained the situation to her, and we spent a nice evening just sitting around talking and watching TV. We went out to the hot tub about 21:00 and I noticed that the moon looked funny. Thinking that there were clouds partially obscuring it, I didn't think about it too much. But as we were getting out, I looked a little closer. I had not read that there was an eclipse on the schedule, but that was surely what was happening! I got the binoculars out and confirmed my suspicions.

I had not realized that Karen had never seen a lunar eclipse before, so we both really enjoyed watching it. We kept checking for the point of extinguishment every few minutes (it was rather chilly, and we still just had our robes on) but the last 5% of the illuminated moon started sliding around to the left. At that point I realized that it was not going to be a total, and we went to bed.