A Year of Weird

by Sue McKinnell

8x32 Jig for 3C

Bars

1-8

1C set, dance down between 2C and 3C and cast up to 2^nd place. 2C step up on bars 3-4.

9-12

1C dance a half figure of 8 up around 2C while 2C set and cross RH.

13-16

1C dance a half figure of 8 down around 3C while 3C set and cross RH.

17-24

Set and rotate for 3 couples.

25-32

Diagonal rights and lefts.

Repeat.

Suggested music is East of Yeadon from Auld Friends Meet - Volume 1 by Muriel Johnstone.

2024 had some strange occurrences. In April there was a total solar eclipse viewable over a large swath of the US. Where I live it was only partial and since I was recovering from hip replacement surgery, I watched it there and it was still strange. Throughout the year the Northern Lights ventured very far south and were viewable in my area (and a lot farther south which is rare). 2024 saw a double emergence of cicadas, both 13-year and 17-year broods emerged which had not happened since Thomas Jefferson was president in 1803. And this year had the earliest summer solstice since George Washington was president in 1796. On July 15^th a fast-moving derecho spawned 32 tornadoes in the Chicago area – the most ever in a single day. To top off the year we had 4 supermoons in a row from August to November.

10/24