Tuesday, November 11, 2025
I read that the Northern Lights were going to be visible from lots of places tonight and tomorrow. Then I forgot. Then I saw a FB post from the local news with tons of people posting pictures from all around the state. I got dressed in not-pajamas and out of the house we went. Traffic lights are awesome with Vaseline eye. We went east toward not-city and there was red and green in the sky.
HOW COOL!!
I texted Louise that the lights were out near her house, because we were near her house. She sent us great pictures and thanks, because she hadn’t known to go outside in the cold and windy night. We drove over to their driveway, which had a lot less traffic than the road we were on. They invited us in, and we played a round of Flip-7 with visiting Tom’s brother and sister-in-law from Alaska. It was quite a wonderful, unplanned outing.
I was messengering with Alexander, and he was baking himself a yellow cake. We talked about the superiority of yellow cake when we had the whole cake from the bakery. He said he realized today he doesn’t have to make everything from scratch and that he could just make himself a box yellow cake. He came upon an amazing fact. PAM serving sizes are measured in TIME. How cool!
WOW!!!
Yes!
We second Nancy’s “WOW!!!” I don’t think they’ll ever see anything like this in San Antonio. This is just totally spectacular! And so happy that you got to see it!!!
Keith was LITERALLY reading aloud “the Aurora borealis could be seen as far south as Texas and even Mexico”. It’s supposed to be better tonight, so cross your fingers and take a look! 🤞
Did the people from Alaska feel lucky seeing the Northern lights in Minnesota?
Echoing Nancy’s “WOW!” Thanks so much for the great pictures!
Of course that totally eclipses (ha!) the otherwise (lowercase) wow-worthy fact that somebody thought to measure sprays in terms of time. Pressure probably comes into it, too, but that’s so much better than just saying “one spray” or whatever.
I have to work on my working knowledge of 1/4 second….