Monthly Movie for March

Here’s the March Monthly Movie.

I shot this on March 8th, the first cloudy day in quite a while. We’ve had sunny, windy weather for a long stretch (notice that the January and February movies were both taken on sunny days). I didn’t want to chose a sunny day every time!

Shortly after I finished the shot, a harbor seal snuck into the bight. I thought about reshooting after it came closer, but they’re so shy and sneaky, I decided against waiting so long on the off chance it might come down toward me and surface, rather than simply disappearing, as they so often do. Good call, as it slipped away quietly, and I never saw it again.

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A Good Pair of Goggles to Protect the Eyes

In a previous post, I listed some of the essential tools of our homestead (see A Homesteader’s Tool Box). The idea came from my response to Sam Sciapaldi’s question for an article she planned for her website, Hello Homestead. When I read the final article, I saw that I’d forgotten one of the most essential homestead tools of all: safety goggles!

Perhaps I consider goggles more a safety item than a tool, (which wouldn’t explain why I thought of dust masks for the article, but not goggles).

However, I rely heavily on safety goggles for protection; I feel naked without them.

Safety goggles

My four most commonly-used pairs of safety goggles (Photo: Mark A. Zeiger).

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