Sometimes, isn't the answer just as cool as the mystery it caused?

The sun is going down. I walked in off my back deck…and there was a rainbow on my kitchen wall! It was so cool, and so unexplained. I grabbed my cell phone and snapped a couple of pictures of it. But, of course, I thought “I HAVE to find out what is causing that!”

We have a west facing window in the kitchen. I have a small, very old bottle sitting on the windowsill that we had found out at The Land. It’s stamped into the glass that it’s a preventative for “Colic, Cholera, and Diarrhea,” but didn’t say anything about preventing rainbows so I assumed that the bottle was causing rainbows (sounds logical to me.) So I moved it…and the rainbow stayed!

Then I thought the sun had to be shining just right through the round glass light fixture above the sink and in front of the window. I held a piece of paper over it. The rainbow stayed! ….Ooops! That wasn’t a rainbow. That was the space shuttle ‘Endeavor.’ Sorry ‘bout that

So watched it for a minute, scratching my head, then took a minute to send the pics to my home email and to make sure they got there. When I got back, a couple minutes later…. the rainbow was on the same wall as the window was set in to!!…...... ”WOW, man! How is that happening man?!!! Dude!” So I went to grab my phone again and when I got back….there was rainbow all over my furniture! It was crazy, beautiful, and cool! WHAT a beautiful, mysterious mess!!

….Well, Ok. I guess I have to back up now. To be honest, when I saw it on the same wall as the window, I immediately spun around to see what was opposite of that west wall (I AM NOT GULLIBLE!!!) and promptly got lasered in the eyes, BAM!!!!, by the cause of the magic… I had slipped a DVD into a pocket in the front of my purse to take to work, and it was sitting at just the right angle to catch the light and refract it all over my kitchen.

It was fun and happy while it lasted, although the bad part was I was temporarily blinded fer a while, but the cause itself was pretty darn cool too. You know I’m going to be setting CD’s and DVD’s all over the kitchen at sunset just to see what happens. My husband (who is out of town and didn’t get to see it, and I haven’t told him about it) is going to be asking, once again, “WHAT are you doing THIS time, Val???” At that point I’ll make him read this. :)

Life is good and I am not gullible. : }~