True or False?
- I saw the eclipse on the sidewalk on Monday.
- I drove through the Morongo grade and spied a big horn sheep on the mountain.
- I am hosting over at Ethical ELA’s Verselove today.
- I saw two baby giraffes yesterday.
Three of those things are true. One is false. Any guesses?
First, look at these beauties. A one-month-old and a two-month-old!
Second, the sun was eclipsed by the moon by about 62% where we were Monday. The maximum view happened at 11:14 a.m. We had finished walking at the zoo at about 10:30, so I didn’t want to leave and find myself sitting in a restaurant at the max time. So we got a sandwich at the zoo snack bar.
I guess I thought it would get noticeably darker, but that sun didn’t miss a beat! I didn’t notice a smidgeon of darkening in the sky. I didn’t have any glasses to look up at the eclipse, so instead I found a shaded spot that allowed tiny images of the sun to shine through. I stood enjoying the view under this trellis at the zoo. When people would venture by, I’d tell them they could see what was happening in the eclipse in the shadows on the sidewalk. It was a conversation starter and fun to see the shadows move about as the flowers above were blowing in the wind.
The third truth is that I am hosting at Ethical ELA today. We are writing True/False poems, and you don’t have to identify which lines are true or false. (If you read my “True or False” post last month, you might want to join us. If you didn’t read it, you still might want to join us!) Click here to check it out.
The lie, you may have figured out, is that I still have not seen another big horn sheep in the wild in Morongo.