Eclipse

We were really excited about the eclipse today.  We assumed at 93% coverage we were close enough, so we just stayed home for the event and attended an Eclipse block party in front yard instead.  It was truly a science day, each family seemed to have a different way to try to watch the eclipse; cereal boxes with a hole, telescopes with eyepiece projected onto a piece of paper, special glasses and my personal favorite a simple large dark bucket of water.  As the eclipse reached it's maximum we let the chickens out hoping they would act strange, as we heard animals do, but I guess our chickens missed that memo.  One of the neatest parts of the day was how all the shadows turned into eclipses.  It was wonderful having a science laboratory right outside our door.  The 7% apparently is a big difference, it only got dim not dark, so next time we might make a trip to see the total effect but we had fun at home none the less.