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Once in a Lifetime

This is a picture of us in our groovy sun viewing glasses goggling at the solar eclipse a few weeks ago in the back yard. We’ll probably look pretty similar today viewing the Transit of Venus this afternoon.

I do not recommend looking at the sun directly without special glasses. In fact, I highly discourage it. But if you have glasses, or you can get yourself to a place that has a way to view the sun safely, do it.

http://www.space.com/15986-venus-transit-photography-skywatching-tips.html

You can watch it virtually on NASA’s webcast.

You could get out your mega telephoto lens and a bunch of other stuff and take a picture of it. (Go here for tips.)

You can make a pinhole projector. Here’s a tutorial for a quick and easy one (scroll to the bottom) or a fancier one.

Or you could do like we’re going to do and BBQ and ogle in the backyard. The next one is in 2117 and I’m not sure we’ll be around to see it.

Finish Lines

Scissors and Thread “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” Douglas Adams*

That Swoon Quilt a long was like a million years ago. Those darn Swoony quilt tops needed to be quilted and finished. They were starting to settle into the sedimentary pile of quilt and fabric things that need the final push to be discharged to the heap of useful entities.

I decided that the Spring Blogger’s Quilt Festival would be a good deadline to self impose. Hah! Binding

Turns out that was ridiculous. I’m not finished. The ship sailed. The train left the station. I missed the bus. The deadline whooshed by.

Quilted Swoon

It’s okay though. Really.

I met plenty of other for crucial deadlines in the meantime. And the Blogger’s Quilt Festival not only inspired me to head toward the finish line on this quilt, but provided lots of inspiration for future quilts to add to the sedimentary pile of things to finish.

*By the way, did you miss Towel Day, May 25th? I’m so sorry I forgot to remind you. (It’s rather harder to remember than Corduroy Day. And I was preoccupied by World Turtle Day). For more Douglas Adams quotes to live by, go here.