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SummerOnTheWay1
Community Champion ⭐⭐⭐
April 8, 2024

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Community Champion ⭐
April 8, 2024

 All my life.. Got me an auto maker a few years ago, I set it the night before and its ready when I get up. Just have to plod to the kitchen and pour..A little milk and a squirt of French Vanilla and Im good to go.

MsStretch
Community Champion ⭐⭐
April 8, 2024

Eclipse day. 🌒 We will see 87% in my neck of the woods.  Broke out my old glasses from the eclipse in 2017.  I cannot believe it, but we actually have a clear day as in blue sky, no clouds, today.  Anybody else got eclipse fever?

Therapist4u
Community Champion ⭐
April 9, 2024

Hi @MsStretch

Good to know you at least got an 87% view!

Did you take any pics..that could be shared??

 

That said...I wouldn’t say I had “eclipse fever”....more like the old commercial....WHERE’S THE BEEF?!!?! ... WHERE’S THE ECLIPSE?? LOL!!

As I mentioned to Dave @DaveMcK Our mostly cloudy day hindered all but a few moments to see it! ..& with short windows of partial clearing...while using a friends ‘eclipse glasses’ ...It was more like a ‘tease’...it was hard trying to share glasses!!...“there it is...no it’s gone...wait there it is again...”...& yet the few glimpses were incredible....

Anyway...as always take care!

☮️  🌄 ~Allen  🌈 🎨

SummerOnTheWay1
Community Champion ⭐⭐⭐
April 9, 2024

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MsStretch
Community Champion ⭐⭐
April 9, 2024

@Therapist4u , sorry, no pictures.  Didn't have the right filters for any of my cameras.  87% = a skinny banana.  It was pretty cool.  Probably be the last one I see in my lifetime.  As the moon was moving away from the sun, some clouds moved in which looked really eerie through the glasses and at one point, the clouds blotted out the sun.  And since you can only see the sun's light through those glasses, it was easy to imagine I was watched a total eclipse. 😁

Frozenoem
Community Champion ⭐⭐⭐
April 9, 2024

One picture from a Celestron at camp,

Was at Rangeley had to fly in

Today I plan to be unconscious, and charging batteries,

Froze

And yes, after long days/nights, I'd still like to swing these hunks of glass , plastic and silicon against the nearest wall Come on retirement!
MsStretch
Community Champion ⭐⭐
April 9, 2024

@SummerOnTheWay1 , eclipses happen regularly, but it is all a matter of being in the right place at the right time.  The next eclipse to appear in the U.S. is in 2033, but will only be visible in NW Alaska.  For the lower 48, the next visible eclipse will be in 2044 and will only be seen from Montana, North Dakota and far northwest South Dakota. 

 

Read more info here.

MsStretch
Community Champion ⭐⭐
April 9, 2024

@Frozenoem , oh yes, I remember the ol' pinhole method.  I also remember when we lived in Germany, we used a piece of smoked glass.  NOT RECOMMENDED!  Of course, at that time, we didn't know better.  Not like eclipses happened all the time.  This was long before the techie times.  Wonder we didn't all go blind.  Although who knows?  Maybe there were residual affects, just hard to distinguish between that and old age.  😆

Frozenoem
Community Champion ⭐⭐⭐
April 9, 2024

Thought about using over-exposed 220 films but, I had no problem seeing  my iPhone lite thru film. That Bill Nue guy is dangerous.

 

Telescope was a god  send

 

Froze

 

 

And yes, after long days/nights, I'd still like to swing these hunks of glass , plastic and silicon against the nearest wall Come on retirement!
catwoman500
Community Champion ⭐⭐
April 12, 2024

Hey, Peeps, 

@DaveMcK @SummerOnTheWay1 @MsStretch @Therapist4u @Frozenoem 

Did try to see the eclipse, but we had off and on clouds. I was in and out of the house trying to catch a glimpse. The glasses were good. I do remember in 1991 my husband and I were in Hawaii during a well-hyped total solar eclipse. We were on Kauai, and the best viewing was supposed to be on the big island of Hawaii, but they had clouds, so actually we saw it better than the folks who had planned the big expensive vacay on the big island expressly for the eclipse.

@Frozenoem ...At that time the glasses were not that available and so I had prepared the cardboard pinhole thing and it was fun looking at the crescent patterns on my husband's shirt LOL.

On Monday I enjoyed the 90% of what I could actually see. I wore my 33-year-old souvenir tee shirt from the Hawaiian eclipse.

Put one of the lenses over my phone and took a few photos.

This is the best one...you can kind of see the moon starting to come over the bottom of the sun....

 

 

It's kind of blurry but had to enlarge it so I could see it and therefore the blur.

DaveMcK
DaveMcKAuthor
Community Champion ⭐⭐⭐
May 5, 2024

 

Posted by Dave the Lighthouse Keeper
MsStretch
Community Champion ⭐⭐
May 8, 2024

I got it!

Therapist4u
Community Champion ⭐
May 9, 2024

Hi @MsStretch

As they say: “You got this”....LOL!

 You go girl!

As always... Take care my friend! 

☮️  🌄 ~Allen 🌈  🎨

DaveMcK
DaveMcKAuthor
Community Champion ⭐⭐⭐
May 6, 2024

We are having nice weather today here in Madison,Wisconsin.

We are having a Bounty of blooming trees. Hoping you are having a nice Spring

 

 

Posted by Dave the Lighthouse Keeper
LaDolceVita
Community Champion ⭐
May 6, 2024

@DaveMcK   Not so here Dave.  Hot and humid and miserable.

catwoman500
Community Champion ⭐⭐
May 10, 2024

@LaDolceVita ...Rainy and dismal here. Temps have been up and down. Today they are down. Sweatshirt weather.

DaveMcK
DaveMcKAuthor
Community Champion ⭐⭐⭐
May 11, 2024

 

Posted by Dave the Lighthouse Keeper
Therapist4u
Community Champion ⭐
May 11, 2024

Hi Dave @DaveMcK

AMEN!

Also let us remember all the step moms and foster moms too!

 

Happy Mother’s Day to you as well!

Hope you’re doing good!

As always...Stay safe....&...Take care!

☮️ 🌄  ~Allen 🌈  🎨

DaveMcK
DaveMcKAuthor
Community Champion ⭐⭐⭐
May 17, 2024

Good morning to all of you FRONT PORCHERS out there! Do you have plans for a Summer vacation yet?

We will be returning to our timeshare at Lake Geneva over Labor Day weekend. Our family will be able to swim, golf, bike and walk.

We are due to have another boat tour of the lake again. 

We fix most of our meals with everyone taking turns.

 

 

Posted by Dave the Lighthouse Keeper
Therapist4u
Community Champion ⭐
May 17, 2024

Hi Dave @DaveMcK

Would some,

or all of these folks be your relatives

 

Hope you’re doing well!

Please have a wonderful weekend...

& a new week too!

Stay safe....&...Take care!

☮️  ~Allen 🌈

Therapist4u
Community Champion ⭐
May 17, 2024

Still waiting for pics.....

🐕Nicole🐶

LOL!

☮️  ~Allen 🌈