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We’re tiptoeing into what I always consider the end of summer. I guess it’s the school teacher / student in me that associates the end of August with the start of fall. My husband, ever the nerd, is happy to remind anyone who asks that the end of summer isn’t technically until the 21st of September. (It’s also never officially winter until December 21st, even if it’s been below freezing for close to a month before then.) He’s big on the solstices, I guess.
Given his appreciation for astronomical events, I’ve been expecting him to be a bit more jazzed about the eclipse tomorrow. He’s very blase about the whole thing though. Me on the other hand? So! Excited! I think our boys are somewhere in between. We spent some time yesterday making pinhole cameras so we can watch it safely and the piano camp that my eldest will be participating in for four days next week rearranged their meeting times so we’re out with plenty of time to get situated with our viewers.
Will you be viewing the eclipse? Anyone live near the totality? (I’m totally jealous of you, if you are, btw. ;) Such a cool thing!)
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Elizabeth Maddrey is a semi-reformed computer geek and homeschooling mother of two who lives in the suburbs of Washington D.C. When she isn’t writing, Elizabeth is a voracious consumer of books. She loves to write about Christians who struggle through their lives, dealing with sin and receiving God’s grace on their way to their own romantic happily ever after.
Hi Elizabeth! So envious! I hope you get an awesome view of the eclipse- how much will you see? My husband was looking up when the next one in the Southern Hemisphere is-I think we have to wait until 2028 for one anywhere near us!!
We took our boys cross country skiing over the weekend (their second time ever)- the best snow (knee deep powder!!) I have ever experienced, it was awesome!
Blessings:)
I think we are at the 80% range from what I recall. So it should still be very cool. They’re saying we will get another in 2024 here in the US, I think.
Knee deep powder sounds amazing!
Hi Elizabeth! Enjoy reading your posts and the readers’ responses. According to the weather, it feels like fall in SW Michigan. Cool nights (upper 50s) and warm days (low 80s). An excellent year for our fruit farmers – over abundance of blueberries, peaches and the apple trees are bursting with fruit. Apples are several weeks ahead of schedule. I just hope this unusual August weather doesn’t mean an early and severe winter.
My husband is also the science nerd. He spent yesterday making a pinhole camera viewing box. He remembered making one as a child. Hopes to share this event with our 12, 9, and 3 year old grandchildren. In Michigan we will experience only around 80%, but we have a friend living near Nashville, Tennessee that will experience a total eclipse. He says the area, as well as their home, is filled with tourists. Visitors are camping in local parks, but locals are having a difficult time finding a viewing area. Grocery stores are running out of food and gas stations are running out of gas. Wow! Happy viewing and enjoy your week.
We toyed, briefly, with taking a little vacation and going to where it would be totality, and then we looked at how many people were also doing that and decided what we get at home is plenty :)
We are a half hour away from being in the very middle of the path. We can’t decide if we want to get closer, or just stay home because of all the traffic that is expected. I laughed that your husband sticks to the solstice dates for seasons, because so does my honey!
Ha! He’ll be glad to know he’s not alone. :) I wouldn’t blame you for avoiding the traffic.
I also appreciate your husband’s approach to the seasons. ? For me, it also helps if it stays warm enough to wear sandals into September.
Where we are in California is supposed to be 73%. In previous partial eclipses, the pine trees in our yard have filtered the sun so that we’ve had multiple images of the eclipse on our garage doors! Another time we were walking around the neighborhood and noticed all sorts of images on the street (again filtered by trees), houses, etc., and had fun taking pictures. There’s a chance we won’t get to see much of this one due to fog!
I always feel summer is close to an end as I get into August as I begin teaching again in September, and have prep work to do. As for the eclipse, I think my area is at 88% as I am in Southern Canada near the US border.
It’s fun to see so many who appreciate the solstice :) I do like wearing sandals as long as I can!
I love the idea of seeing the eclipse through the trees. Very cool!
Teaching definitely colors the idea of summer :) hope you get a great view of the eclipse.
maybe watch the eclipse
Hope you get to!
Elizabeth,
I live in Oregon and I must say this state has gone crazy with all the eclipse stuff. However, we’ve yet to see the HUGE traffic problems they predicted. Who knows what tomorrow will be like. My brother lives in central Oregon and they’ve had more problems, but now they have a big forest fire that’s taking center stage instead.
I plan on reading tomorrow, and maybe stepping out on my front porch to look at the eclipse. I’ll actually have a great view.
Have fun tomorrow and stay safe!
We will drive 20 or 30 minutes to be in the complete eclipse. A friend is driving from Virginia to watch it wth us.
I’m glad you haven’t had traffic trouble yet – hope that continues!
Very cool!
Not sure what our % is here for eclipse…..I’ll stay inside though…and read!
That’s definitely the safest for your eyes :)
I’m in the path of totality in upstate South Carolina and am definitely excited. I was going to go to the events on the campus of Clemson University, but besides the eclipse it is also move in time for the students so I am going to watch from my own back yard and hope it’s not cloudy tomorrow.
I am in mid Missouri so maybe half an hour from totality. We plan to stay in and watch it on TV.
Ohh..move in time is always crazy :) Probably staying home to watch is smart! I’m hoping for no clouds myself — they’re saying we’re getting storms tomorrow night, so hopefully they won’t already be in the area.
We’ll probably do some live streaming as well – the pinhole boxes are cool, but the picture isn’t big like NASA will have :)
We’re supposed to have about 75% darkness so I think it will be noticable. I hope you and your family enjoy it (and they get more enthusiastic about it). I laughed at your comment about your husband and the solstices!
I think the boys will enjoy it once it’s happening. I guess we’ll see. :) My hubby keeps me laughing, for sure, it’s one reason I love him.
I’m with your husband Elizabeth…I’m quite blase about it (in other words, I don’t really care). I live on the Oregon coast and we’re suppose to be right in the path of totality or at least a good 90%?? Anyway, traffic is suppose to be nuts & we’re already bursting at the seams with summer tourists. So that’s why maybe I’m not so excited about it. Why can’t it happen in December when everyone’s safely tucked into their homes…lol!
Anyway, I hope you get to see a good view tomorrow. I know lots of people are quite excited about it, maybe even kids who’ve never seen one. The last one was in 1979 so I’m sure I got to see it as I was 9 yrs old.
Anyway, happy SONday everyone! Stay safe out there :-)
My area is supposed to be about 94% for viewing… so I plan to stay home! :)
We got 90% totality here in SW Ohio. It was intersting to see how much the temperature dropped.
We did not see the eclipse in its totality here, but we followed it on TV. It was amazing to watch as it moved across the states from one ocean to the other!
I didn’t observe the eclipse. There wasn’t much going to be seen here in Texas. I did look st the pictures on TV afterwards. It was an amazing sight.
We didn’t see the eclipse , heavy clouds were in our area
Hi Elizabeth. I didn’t watch the eclipse. It darkened the sky here in Northern Utah but that’s all I noticed different. :)