Something like a mere half hour before the start of the eclipse I wrangled together duct tape and cardboard into a 5 foot-long pinhole projection viewer, complete with a black foil pinhole and a sheet of bristol at the inner end for the smoothest lunar projection. The Westies watched me curiously as I fiddled with the big long box, swinging it over my shoulders and balancing it off my chest, trying to get the perfect angle, lining up the pinhole to the sun and keeping it steady. Halfway through it I got hungry and left to pick up some food, and as the angle of the sun got lower I went inside and ate my double double, happy that I got to see a few stages of the eclipse, happy that I got some food in my belly.
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