Pinhole Camera for Solar Eclipse

The evening of our son's construction machine birthday party (come back tomorrow for all the details) there was a solar eclipse.

People. A SOLAR eclipse.

Oops, sorry for yelling, but it was darn cool.

So what did we do? We just had our party outside anyway, but since this was a 3 year old's party everyone was gone by 6pm, that's how we roll.

Anyway, with all of our elementary school knowledge and way too many Ivy League degrees (I kid you not, between four of us, I think we had six. Or more if you count Stanford) we made a pinhole camera.




We took a box lid from one of the birthday presents (thanks Jess!) we poked a hole with the tip of a ballpoint pen, then held it away from the opposite side of the box to see the solar eclipse projected onto it!

So cool.

See that sliver? That's the sun!

Jessica

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Spring Cleaning- the Garage

Our garage is still holding quite a few building materials left over from the construction a year ago. You never know when you might need some extra tile, or hardwood floor baords, or a shop-vac, or 12 ladders. OK, not 12, we have 5. Five! Way too many. Oh and an elliptical machine from my brother-in-law. And of course all the kid paraphenalia, extra car seats, 3 strollers, scooters, tricycles, a two-wheeler with training wheels...

Skis.

A drop cloth laid out as if I might start srpay painting at any moment.

Enter, Home Depot, savior of the garage. I'm not endorsing them specifically, just that they are our closest home improvement store, and we were wandering the aisles in search of a solution to the large-scale clutter.

We settled on the Rubbermaid FastTrack System, which is awesome. You just hang the rail up on the wall, then snap on whatever acccessories you need. We used a combination of a Bike Hook for the two-wheeler (it can also hold grown up bikes), the Multi-Purpose Hook for scooters, and the  Utility Hook for helmets and for hanging the umbrella stroller.

So much better. Now I can get from the car to the door without tripping!

Jessica

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