Gentle Readers . . . and Maxwell,
About 10:55 p.m. Thursday, we heard a BOOM so loud that Penelope flew off the bed as if she'd been thrown like a furry football. I thought the noise might have come from something a neighbor was working on in his garage. I had already heard him and some friends talking in their yard.
But when I looked at our neighborhood Facebook group today, I learned the source of the BOOM. Aliens had invaded and, of course, had landed at Mar-A-Lago because they wanted to see the gold toilets. Then they picked up a psychiatrist because they wanted to know what's wrong with the inhabitant seated on the gold toilet, screaming to have his Twitter account reactivated.
I jest, but it seems plausible, kinda sorta.
Turns out the sound was a sonic boom from a re-entering SpaceX Dragon capsule. A couple of neighbors got footage of it, and one person who saw it thought it was a meteor that landed with a crash.
So that was the big excitement in the hood, along with much of Florida's coast and into Georgia.
Infinities of love,
Janie Junebug
Wow! Too close for comfort?
ReplyDeleteAny loud noise is too close for comfort to Franklin and Penelope.
DeleteYou had me going for a minute there and I was so excited that they had come for him. Maybe one day the aliens really do come and take the big orange buffoon back to Mars with them. They're going to be so disappointed when they discover the only thing in that big skull of his is just empty space where a brain should be.
ReplyDeleteIt's empty space? I thought it was filled with computer chips because he got the COVID vaccine that altered his DNA.
DeleteWow.
ReplyDeleteI love your first explanation of the BOOM though. And wish that they would take him away...
Oh, how I wish someone would take him.
DeleteIt must have been worse than the RAF jets going supersonic over the house; when they did it turned out to be an aircraft whose radio wasn't working and therefore not responding to demands to know why it was wandering around in British airspace.
ReplyDeleteThat must have been upsetting to the people who needed to know what that aircraft was.
DeleteA dragon capsule? Wow! I have no idea what it is but it sounds amazing.
ReplyDeleteThe capsule returned with experiments conducted on the International Space Station.
DeleteFlorida... I immediately thought sonic boom. Glad it wasn’t aliens... But they would take one look and go home.
ReplyDeleteI've been here 11 years and it was my first time hearing a sonic boom.
DeleteI really like the Mar-A-Lago version of the event. If only........
ReplyDeleteIf only my words could make it true.
DeleteI might have thought it was Thing 45'shead exploding at the news of the AZ recount where he lost by MORE votes than previously thought.
ReplyDeletexoxo
I know! That news was delightful.
DeleteI was outside once when the space shuttle landed at Edwards and it's quite a boom, feels like it can knock you over. More scary at night, I imagine, particualrly for the dogs.
ReplyDeleteVery scary for the pups.
DeleteScary!
ReplyDeleteA booming surprise!
DeleteThat mental image of Trump on his gold toilet is giving me the giggles! 🤣🤣🤣 I hope poor Penelope was able to calm down after the boom.
ReplyDeleteShe returned to bed about 10 minutes later and slept well.
DeleteI left a comment, what happened. Seems to be something wrong with comments today, or is it only on my computer?
ReplyDeleteNever fear, dear Inger, your comment is here.
DeleteI wish aliens would spirit the golden toilet sitter away permanently. I would love to have heard the sonic boom and see the SpaceXDragon reentry. Have a happy and safe week, Janie! Hugs to you!
ReplyDeleteHugs to you, dear Louise. I wish I had been outside to see it.
DeleteWow
ReplyDeleteBig wow.
DeleteWow!
ReplyDeleteI wish I'd been outside to see it in the sky.
DeleteI honestly don't think I have ever heard a sonic boom.
ReplyDeleteIt was my first. It happened and it was over. Far worse is a neighbor having band practice at his house every single Sunday afternoon for hours.
DeletePoor dogs! It would have freaked me out too. Even the neighbours' fireworks have me on edge. A sonic boom would feel like the end of the world was coming. In a YouTube video recently, I saw a sort of little house for pets that's soundproof. It's meant for the animal to go in during thunder and lightning storms or fireworks. It probably cost a fortune; that information was conveniently missing.
ReplyDeleteFranklin and Penelope seek shelter in my closet. I hate the noise of fireworks for myself and for the dogs. Many people in my neighborhood are nasty in their use of them because they take delight in upsetting other people.
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