Eclipse 2024 and The Return of WeaselPecker, Herald of Doom

[Captain Sternn]

So do we have anybody here besides me that's in the path of totality ? Does anybody have any special plans for viewing it ?

I'm in the path at my home, off the center line just a bit but I lose only a scant few seconds of totality because of it, so I'll have 4 minutes give or take. I don't have any particular plans, it arrives about 2 p.m. so I thought I might have a couple beers. My son will probably be on hand for it and I think the wife is coming home early. We have glasses, I will probably project it onto a poster size paper and not look very much. Not sure I want to trust glasses.

I sort of wanted to drive over to Vincennes, Indiana to the George Rogers Clark Memorial monument. A towering edifice of the NWA, it's a favorite place of mine anyway. It just happens that the centerline of the path crosses the Wabash River just a couple hundred yards or so from the monument. In the grand scale of things it could hardly be any closer. But, there's going to be an event there, with tv stations, so lots of people. Clouds could be a factor too, so home is fine.

And then there's this guy. Does anybody remember this from several years ago ? There's actually video of the incident, it happened in a park in England. It flew away and hasn't been seen since. I'm not saying it's going to be there BUT if the moon moving off the sun reveals that it is there, let us put our affairs in order. Just look at the cold steely-eyed malice in Peckers eye and tell me we're not boned.

 

[Psychobilly]

I'll be honest with you brother; Weasel Pecker sounds like a Terpene Profile I'd be looking for. LOL

 

[DopeDaniel]

Take some pics for me.

 

[JL2G]

So do we have anybody here besides me that's in the path of totality ?

Does anybody have any special plans for viewing it ?

Thought I was bring'n the camper and watchin it from yer place.

I'm in the path at my home, off the center line just a bit but I lose only a scant few seconds of totality because of it, so I'll have 4 minutes give or take. I don't have any particular plans, it arrives about 2 p.m. so I thought I might have a couple beers. My son will probably be on hand for it and I think the wife is coming home early. We have glasses, I will probably project it onto a poster size paper and not look very much. Not sure I want to trust glasses.

Last time I used my welding mask to get a peak at it.

I sort of wanted to drive over to Vincennes, Indiana to the George Rogers Clark Memorial monument. A towering edifice of the NWA, it's a favorite place of mine anyway. It just happens that the centerline of the path crosses the Wabash River just a couple hundred yards or so from the monument. In the grand scale of things it could hardly be any closer. But, there's going to be an event there, with tv stations, so lots of people. Clouds could be a factor too, so home is fine.

And then there's this guy. Does anybody remember this from several years ago ? There's actually video of the incident, it happened in a park in England. It flew away and hasn't been seen since. I'm not saying it's going to be there BUT if the moon moving off the sun reveals that it is there, let us put our affairs in order. Just look at the cold steely-eyed malice in Peckers eye and tell me we're not boned.
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That's a funny ass pic there. Lol

 

[Captain Sternn]

Thought I was bring'n the camper and watchin it from yer place.

Save the $$ that it would take to tow and just drive, there's a camper here waiting for you. It's a guest house and a trim shack ☀️🌖🌗🌗🌘🌑

 

[Captain Sternn]

Well I had a 3 beer lunch for the occasion, it was pretty cool but my attempt to project it didn't work out. It got noticeably cooler, the owls hooted a time or two. Over before you know it. I tried to get a pic it wasn't good, I don't know how he did it but my son got one. No apparent signs of the coming of WeaselPecker.

Next curiosity of nature coming down the road is the cicada hatch. Where I live is in an area where the broods may overlap so that whole thing might get pretty stupid.

 

[Amarok]

I finally got around to looking up when the eclipse was going to happen and discovered it had been an hour or so earlier. Oh well, it was pretty minor here, I'm led to believe.

I think I read that we get a total eclipse here in 2044. That's an interesting date to ponder, starting with "what side of the sod will I be on?