Eclipse viewing

In PA it is really cloudy too, but it has peaked through a few times and we're just getting some good eclipse action now.

Don't look into the sun erybody! Quick looks with eclipse glasses if you are going to look at all.

Really cool though!
 
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It was! Some single barrel, higher priced version of Jim Beam that a friend donated to my ongoing research on deviant behavior. I'm not entirely certain whether the blurry picture I got was the result of light refraction through the whiskey, or the manner in which the bottle became half empty. Because, as we all know, the age old debate of whether a container is half empty or half full has a really simple answer. When the liquid is an alcoholic beverage, the container is always half empty and infers a level of depression and despondency upon the drinker. However, if the liquid is merely plain water... who really gives a shit whether it's half empty or half full?

But, regardless of the method of viewing, it's pretty cool to see rare celestial events in your lifetime. I was rather hoping for an equally rare mysterious event to occur simultaneously, like lightning striking an orange-haired clown, or something. No such luck.
 
Old school welding mask worked great. Dug it out of someone shop after I worked with them for the day. Pretty cool. Was only like 50-60% covered, but left a really cool look outside. There was this odd dulled sunlight and made some real soft looking shadows.

5 minutes later i was distracted by my drove to go home andI went back to saw maintenance
 
Took my two youngest boys and my sister to Saluda SC to the city park. We sat under a large pecan tree and set up a mirror reflecting its light onto a white board.
We had our eclipse cards and glasses, and also spread a white sheet on the ground hoping to see the elusive shadow bands. Sure enough just before ( and after) totality we witnessed the flickering faint shadows on the sheet. At totality a few stars were visible and there was a sort of growing "sunrise" lightness to the horizon to the west. The crickets sang and the crowd cheered.
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I took my son to the east side of Marion Lake in SC where we saw it all.

Tried to set up a hammock in a cypress tree out in the water but got chased back to the levee by an aggregation of snakes that dropped out of the tree into the water next to me... they were fat, brown, and heavily patterned with splotches/diamonds, so I'm thinking copperhead, but possibly water snakes or younger cottonmouths.

We had some vultures wig out in the treeline next to the levee.

The drive back to north Florida was murderous - took 10 hrs. The 95 was bumper to bumper until it broadened from 2 to 3 lanes on the Georgia border. The oncoming traffic headlights, after spending a day in the sun looking at the sun, were not cool.

Definitely worth it...
 
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