What's up pussy cat?

Solar eclipse on first day of work  WAS auspicious.  We were allowed to take our morning break  by dashing outside for about 15 min on either side of "totality."  We were about  4 hours south of actual totality, but it was impressively about 94% of totality and the temperature dropped about 15 degrees over 30 min.  I loaned my special eclipse viewing glasses to some dude on the street outside my VA orientation building.  It turns out he's a supervisor in HR and he's been super helpful and friendly every since.  (Maybe he is also repentant since he assumed that, of the two of new hires starting that day, Zach and Melanie, that Zach was the doc and I was the pharmacist.)  Surprise!

Judd was home that day awaiting internet installation man.  Also auspicious!

Judd and I  checked in with our landlord for a couple minor things that were not optimal: dimmer lights that don't work, washing machines that don't spin. AND, back in July, the landlord had leaked to us that he loved his Moxie when he lived back east, so we stashed a couple cases for him in the U-haul. He came by for delivery. We commented about all the deer and turkey in our yard every night and he mentioned that Jackson county has the highest density of cougars in the US. I tried to do some fact-finding: While it appears the west-of-Medford area is pretty red for cougar population, it doesn't seem like the highest density....

But found a beautiful website about cougars and their loss of habitat.... maybe Oregon is greener than some of the west coast.
http://mountainlion.org/us/-us-population.asp

image from the Bend Bulletin