Trip Report Readers Chick Chat and Guy Gabbing Thread!

[Wicked Sisters]

Congrats on the pension (and bus pass)!!

Christine says thank you so much. Love the gif

 

[MinnieM123]

Hi Everyone, Christine celebrated her 66th birthday today. She can officially receive the UK State Pension She also gets a free bus pass We are away at a holiday forest village this week and so relaxing.

Christine, glad to hear that you received some nice gifts -- just for turning 66!

 

[Tiggertoo56]

Happy birthday Christine

 

[Songbird76]

Happy birthday, Christine!

 

[Wicked Sisters]

Happy birthday Christine

Thank you,I was thoroughly spoilt.

 

[Wicked Sisters]

Happy birthday, Christine!

Thank you and we are having a lovely time away.

 

[k8einwdw]

Hoppy Easter to our WDW Magic friends!

 

[Tiggerish]

Hi Everyone, Christine celebrated her 66th birthday today. She can officially receive the UK State Pension She also gets a free bus pass We are away at a holiday forest village this week and so relaxing. View attachment 773607View attachment 773608

Lovely photo of the birthday girl!! Many happy returns.

My hubby turned 62 on Monday last and is eligible to.claim early retirement pension.

 

[Wicked Sisters]

Lovely photo of the birthday girl!! Many happy returns.

My hubby turned 62 on Monday last and is eligible to.claim early retirement pension.

Thank you, it’s such a good feeling finally getting your pension knowing you have worked hard for it.

 

[TheMouseFan]

Today has been a good day! First, we didn't get the serious weather they were calling for yesterday! We had the potential for numerous tornadoes, large hail, and wind gusts up to 100+ mph. Luckily, we only had some moderate wind and thunderstorms! It is chilly today, bit the sun is shining! Second, I unexpectedly got the day off and made some nice Disney finds while I was running errands! I found these bird houses:


And these storage bowls:




And thus cute decorative bowl:

 

[Swissmiss]

Those are amazing finds; I’m very jelly

 

[k8einwdw]

Second, I unexpectedly got the day off and made some nice Disney finds while I was running errands! I found these bird houses:

Those birdhouses are adorable!

 

[TheMouseFan]

Anybody else in the path of totality? It was amazing to get to witness this from our backyard!




And afterwards, we took the kittens outside for the first time. Harry enjoyed it more than Cruella.

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

Anybody else in the path of totality? It was amazing to get to witness this from our backyard!
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That's pretty cool you got to see it. In my part of Wisconsin it was cloudy and misting. My students were bummed that we couldn't see anything, it only got mildly more dark gray.

 

[TheMouseFan]

That's pretty cool you got to see it. In my part of Wisconsin it was cloudy and misting. My students were bummed that we couldn't see anything, it only got mildly more dark gray.

That stinks! There was a chance we were going to have heavy cloud cover too. Luckily, it ended up being a beautiful day with just a few puffy white clouds. It sounds like there was lots of rain and clouds along the path of totality, so I am grateful that we had such good views.

 

[meggo819]

Anybody else in the path of totality?

I drove about 4 hours last night to get into the path in TX. The forecast wasn’t great, but I’m so thankful it ended up wonderfully clear by totality.

 

[joshsprincess921]

Anybody else in the path of totality?

Weren't in the path of totality (I think like 85%) but we didn't get to witness any of it b/c it was cloudy and rainy. My son was super upset b/c his school had planned for them all to go out and see it. The teacher streamed it from somewhere else for them. Looks like it was beautiful day in your area!

 

[Bullseye1967]

We were in about 90% totality with clouds, but we did see several glimpses of it all covered but just a bit. We got the full totality in 2017 ( on my 50th birthday), so we were happy just to see something. I'll be real old by the next one.

Fun story: The family across the street ( great and very patient folks have 5 kids. Ages around 12 to 2.) They all had their glasses on and were looking up at the correct time. We heard the best stuff. From the age ranges we always do!

Top 10:

It's beautiful!
You don't see it!
Yes I do!
Where is it?
Right there.
That is the windshield of the car!
My glasses are broken and I can't see it!
I see it, but it looks like a tree.
Ok now I see it. That's it?
I think Mom and Dad made this whole thing up. ( It was very cloudy)

Edit: There are now 6 kids they have a 9 month old.

 

[donaldtoo]

We were in the path of totality here, a little northeast of Austin, Texas.
It was overcast, but as the eclipse was waning, I noticed faint shadows on the ground, and put my eclipse glasses on to catch a few minutes of it, before the clouds totally obscured it again.
For comparison sake, I’m posting some pics below of total eclipse vs. after eclipse.
The pics won’t do the darkness part justice, as my iPhone really compensates for low light (probably the one time ever I didn’t want it to ), but y’all will get the general idea…!!!

 

[donaldtoo]

Another bit of fun eclipse happenings was when we had an annular eclipse on Oct. 14th of last year.
As it filtered through the trees, it left the little crescents in the pic below on any flat, smooth surfaces…pretty cool…!!!