Well, Rats!

So before midnight it starts to cloud up and make all but the brightest stars go away. No aurora through this overcast. Looks as though there might soon be rain. I do like rain, but not when a meteor shower is due. Every year, the same thing. Ah, well, at least the overcast has put a halo around Venus, making it look like a scary ghost eye with bright pinpoint pupil. Deep delight of sky and splendid whirl; in spite of clouds I look up and am lost in the joy of vertigo.

One thing drives out another

This is one of those moments when I'm going batty trying to remember something. Right on the tip of my neurons. Any minute now, I will begin barking. What the hell was it???