When the “To Do” list got depressingly oppressive tonight, I decided to bake cookies. Which worked out well, because then I had a snack to eat on my excursion to see the Perseid Meteors.
I baked chocolate chip cookies, with Heath bar toffee bits and oats added, and also a little over half the flour replaced with coconut flour just for the heck of it. And they came out perfect. Either the coconut flour or the fact that i forgot to add the egg until after the flour made them come out much more coherent than usual and they did not spread on the baking sheet as much. Instead they held together as very nice little cookies, about 65 in total in the batch.
All while I was baking, the Yankees were playing Texas, and not doing terrible well. I had a quick dinner — a fresh farm-share tomato I just got today, just sliced and salted, mmmmm. And a farm-share chuck steak. And then I tried to get some work done, but the Yankees were down 6-1 and FEH.
The sky seemed to be getting cloudier by the minute, and at ten pm I gave up trying to get any work done, packed up the cookies and my iPhone, and hit the road west on Route 2 in search of darker, clearer skies. I figured I’d drive until the game ended and then get out and see if I could see anything at all. I decided if I saw even a single meteor, the trip would be a success.
Miraculously, as I drove west, the yankees chipped away at the Rangers’ lead, and I got out from under the heavy cloud to where it was just haze. I passed I-495, and came to the exit for Mt. Elam Road in Leominster. I decided to pull off. I drove around for a short while until i saw a sign that said “Jewish Cemetery Next Left.” i found the small, unlit cemetery with no trouble, and parked my car in the middle. The place was ringed by trees but had no lights, and in the direction my car was facing (west/northwest) it was dark.
By then the Yankees had cut the lead to two runs, and were coming to bat again. I lay down on the hood of the car with the streaming audio feed from WCBS playing via my iPhone. The night was starting to get chilly, but the hood of the car was comfortably warm. No sooner had my head touched the windshield than a bright streak of light cut horizontally across the sky! Success!
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