Eclipsnic!

[osprey_archer]

I am returned from my eclipsnic! Which is a portmanteau of eclipse + picnic, and involved eclipse cookies (chocolate cookies with white chips really, but "eclipse cookies" sounds better. I may change the name permanently in my brain), and pop rocks Oreos, and little individually sized bottles of champagne that Becky brought. We had a lovely time!

We did not have eclipse glasses, but Julie made us eclipse boxes which worked quite well enough, and also a woman stopped by the park halfway through the eclipse and called out, "Want to look through this welding helmet?"

So of course we did and it was splendid and none of us have gone blind, so that seems to have gone well enough.

The park came equipped with a Little Free Library (I would like to say this was serendipity, but in fact I looked into it before), which I raided - with great success! for I found Mary Downing Hahn’s Stepping on the Cracks. I liked Hahn's ghost stories when I was a kid. This one doesn’t look like it has any ghosts, but it’s about two best friends on the American homefront during World War II, which seems Relevant to My Interests.

And in return, I left The Railway Children, which I found in a Little Free Library in Ann Arbor. So it will continue to wend its way through the libraries of the world, like a ship upon the waves.

Comments

[sovay]

I am returned from my eclipsnic! Which is a portmanteau of eclipse + picnic

I like that. It has a good sound.

We did not have eclipse glasses, but Julie made us eclipse boxes which worked quite well enough, and also a woman stopped by the park halfway through the eclipse and called out, "Want to look through this welding helmet?"

You had excellent passers-by.

[osprey_archer]

The only problem is that I will have few chances to use the word eclipsnic. Clearly I will need to come up with other picnic portmanteaus.

[asakiyume]

Ah, they were talking about welding helmets on my local NPR station! And I like "eclipse cookies" as a name :-)

[osprey_archer]

Eclipse cookies just sounds so delectable, doesn't it? And yet also faintly mysterious.

[evelyn_b]

Your eclipsnic sounds delightful and I'm glad you didn't go blind!

[osprey_archer]

Any theme for a picnic is a good theme!

[brigdh]

I had an eclipse picnic too! Though no cookies were had at mine – we picked up fresh hummus and tabouli at a store on our way to the park.

[osprey_archer]

All picnics are good picnics, even without cookies! And hummus sounds like a good summer picnic food - light and tasty and with the possibility of messiness that somehow makes a picnic more delightful.