I woke up around 10 AM. We. Were. Tired! We took our time getting ready, and we headed out around 12 30 for the cabin. Arrangements were made for Panna, myself, Sophie, and her parents to meet for dinner to celebrate Christelie's Ironman race. However, later in the afternoon, Monica had said, "Okay" while asleep when told about dinner time, so she didn't go with us. We hung around the cabin for a while. Here's The Forest once again, beautiful as always.
Before dinner, Sophie came over to the cabin, as she wanted to go fishing. She recruited our help in finding the latest technology in wooden sticks, the strongest twine approved by the cats (played with to make it catch fish better), the best in rocks for sinkers, the best leaf fishing reel, and the stickiest burrs to help with catching fish as bait. Panna played the fish until another idea to fish in the rain barrels by the cabin came up.
Each barrel had fish in it (use your imagination and go along with me, please), one having small fish, another having medium-size fish, and the last one having large fish (this one was Sophie's). We tried for a long time to catch a fish, but no success. Even one was smart enough to take the sinker off and make the burrs rise back to the top. We laid the fishing rods on the barrels to see if they would catch fish while we went to do something else. Later on, when Sophie went to check on the fish, she said a small fish was caught, but she put it back in the barrel because it was too small.
We went out to dinner, and on the way, I saw my first double rainbow where the colors repeat themselves twice in a single band. I always thought it meant "two rainbows." The first photo is the classic multiple rainbow. You see the primary rainbow, and then the faint secondary rainbow to the right of it.
The second photo underneath will show a close-up of the stronger, primary rainbow, and you'll find something else, too. Here, you'll see the seven color band (Roy G Biv - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet - this is a mnemonic to remember the color sequence), and then a series of unusual color bands with gaps between them and colors out of sequence. You see how violet yellow green blue repeats three, maybe four times? This is an example of a supernumerary rainbow.
Poor Chris was sore from the race! She was recovering very nicely, considering the length of the race. We rode back to The Forest very quietly, as we were full and content to simply rest. I had decided to go to a jeep dealer in southwest Delaware on the other side of I-71 in the morning to see about replacing the vacuum boot with a new one, so I would have to go early in the morning, but not tomorrow; I might be able to swing by if the dealer is close to the herbal study group at Stratford Ecological Center.
