Stirring Deeds of Midgetry

[rain_gryphon]

Okay, I just saw something I'm unable to account for. I was outside getting something from the trunk of the grey car. I stopped to look out over the south field towards the neighbor's place, about a half mile down the road (they're lit up for Easter), and in my field I saw four, possibly five, extremely faint parallel lines of blue light, each one a different length, but none of them over two feet long, or under one. They were maybe eight inches apart, maybe a bit more, and seemed to be lying on or just above the ground. I had to look for a bit to be sure that I was really seeing them. I walked closer to see what it was, and they faded away. I went back to my original position, thinking that maybe I was seeing some sort of reflection, but didn't see them anymore from there either. So...

Some sort of chemical reaction? Something related to the fertilizers used? The orientation was the same as the corn rows from '22 (it was fallow this past year).

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Ollie Bearman's six points from Saudi Arabia means that Ferrari are only four points behind Red Bull! I'd forgotten that.

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BBC is already busy "Debunking the False Moscow Attack Claims". That was quick. There needs to be a great deal less knee-jerk "debunking", and a great deal more information gathering, IMHO. News services aren't what they used to be.

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I've taken to sleeping in my collar. It's a blue nylon one with a horse and cowboy pattern on it, so old it's way, way soft. I've got a chrome-plated heart-shaped tag that says "Hen" (one of Christopher's nicknames for me). I find wearing it very comforting. I've been way nervous of late, and I don't know why. I've been taking hydroxyzine (generic Atarax). I'm assured that it's neither addictive nor habit-forming (it's been on the market since 1956, established as very safe), so it's not an reaction to taking that every day.

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Comments

[moonhare]

Cool about the lines. I know that active solar flares were supposed to bring view of the aurora borealis pretty far south, but that doesn’t sound like what you described. Of course we had rain and overcast conditions on those nights.

*hugs* How I hate anxiety. Nice that the collar brings comfort. Such sweet sentiment there. Breathe through this!

[rain_gryphon]

After thinking about it, I'm pretty sure that what I saw was a temperature-inversion mirage, showing me my neighbor's lights. The sun had been out all day, and at dusk a cold front came through. The temperature was falling rapidly at the time, and I'm sure the ground was warmer than the air. I also know that mirages can manifest as parallel lines, although I don't know why.

In the end, I'll prolly never know for sure, but mirage seems a reasonable hypothesis.

Thanks!

[allaboutweather]

Hopefully the collar will calm things down for you. *hugs*