Sunday, at 6:30 pm, I started getting antsy to drive out in the country to watch the eclipse - there are too many trees in town that block our view. After some uhhh, strong encouragement on my part, DH agreed we'd take a short drive to see what we could see. Now, you might remember, I live in a small town waaaaay out in the country - a person doesn't have to go more than 2 miles to be OUT of town and IN the country for a clear view of our gigantic sky.
I had my viewing "box" correctly lined inside with white papter on one end, and had jabbed a hole in the other end.
Well, out we went driving, and driving, and driving, passing up all the myriads of suitable spots to pull off the road - I was ready to strangle that man if he didn't stop soon!!! "Are you trying to get closer to the sun for a better view?@/3(!!!XXgh?" I could "feel" by the sun's rays that they were cooler than a few minutes previously!!! Jeeesh, stop already, DH!!! We can't do this again until 2023 for goodness sake! STOP!
Farther southwest of us, Utah, Nevada, I think they saw a perfect moon in the exact center of the sun - like a Lifesaver!
We saw it here in California!,,,,,,!!!
ReplyDeleteWe live at the North end of Utah, so we got a sliver of sun that looked like a crescent moon. I took the grandkids out in the yard (we live in the country) with our pinpricked paper. We tried a larger hole, too, but the small pinprick worked best.
ReplyDeleteOn the news tonight they showed photos from a little south of us where they got the perfect ring of sun around a black center. Very cool!
Glad you got DH to go on the adventure with you. : )
How cool to actually see this! I don't think it was visible on the east coast. Heck, I was sewing anyway!
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