Eclipse

Recently, Person told us that the total clips is coming to Oregon near where we live and that people are very excited. We know what total means and we know what clips are because we are very smart. What we don't understand is why everyone is excited about clips. Other than that clips are often found on chip bags, we don't find them very exciting but people are really strange. 

OK, this is really boring!

To get ready for the total clips, we gathered all of the clips we could find and put them in a pile to wait for something exciting to happen. This was not exciting at all and the clips just sat there doing nothing... We asked Person about this and she explained that she had said eclipse and not clips. An eclipse is very different from clips and involves the sun and moon. 

Passing this useful information on to Zoe.

Person let us watch a video about the eclipse and we learned that we need special eye protection to watch it. We decided to get right to work making some because the eclipse is coming soon. 

This should be everything we need.

We are going to make a pinhole viewer for me. Elsie already has glasses which we think we can cleverly adapt for her to use.

Trace carefully Elsie.

We've got the paper attached.

Now to poke it with a pin since it's a pinhole viewer.

The pinhole we made seemed way too small, so we made some executive decisions and decided to poke it with a pencil to make the hole bigger. We are super good at science.

I'm an excellent supervisor.

We can both see each other so that is good.

Now we just need to adapt Elsie's glasses. Person says it will get dark during the total eclipse so we think we need to make Elsie's glasses dark. 

This black paper should make the glasses dark.

Neither of us can see anything, so we must have done it right.

If the eclipse is coming for us, you can tell it that we are ready. It still seems like a boring Person type thing but we will see. There has not been any mention of snacks. What do you think about the eclipse?

Our Very Own Poem

Recently we have become concerned about poetry since Person told us that no one has written any poems about us. This made us quite sad. We explained this to Person every five minutes. We have now bothered person a sufficient amount and she has written a poem all about us! We hope you enjoy our poem!

  The Town of Elsie

There once was a bunny named Elsie

Who lived at the top of a tree

Which was quite unusual to see

Now this bunny was lonely

Because she didn't have any friends

She couldn't hop for being so sad

Until one grand day she met

A zebra all striped black and white

Who was also in need of a friend

So they went and they made

Themselves a home in a tent

And raided the village for food

They ate all the carrots

Raspberries and lettuce

And nibbled up all of the seeds

There's no doubt about it

The village was ransacked

The people were all in uproar

Then the pair they were sorry

That the people were hungry

So they offered to help with repair

They helped with replanting

With tending and weeding

And they didn't nibble any more seeds

So the villagers were happy

And bunny and zebra moved in with a Person

Who had plenty of carrots to spare

And we really do think

Although we are not quite certain

That this is how the town of Elsie got its name

We Are Very Helpful!

Person ordered a stool for her studio online and we were very excited when a big box arrived. At first we thought it was for us and were a little disappointed to find out that it was a boring something for Person. However, after we opened the box, and saw that the stool was in lots of pieces, we were very interested. We have never seen a stool like this before. Person said that it had to be assembled which I thought was when a marching band came to a school for an Assembly but it turns out assembled means we get to use tools which is very exciting. 

Elsie has gotten too excited and fallen over!

Obviously, Person will need a lot of help from us on this project. The first step on any project like this is to look at the instructions. Since we can't read, we had to go by the pictures.

This seems fairly complicated. Good thing we are here to help!

It turned out that Elsie had the instructions upside down so it was very confusing and slow going at first but we got the hang of it.

Elsie is working very hard.

Just like Person, we are smarter than we look!

We were a bit disappointed to learn that we won't get to use any power tools on this project. We like the big green drill. It makes a fun noise and a big mess!

I sure hope we have all the pieces and it is not like that puzzle we tried!

OK Elsie, I think this goes here.

Person kept telling us that we were getting in the way but I am pretty sure that is just her way of saying thank you. Person can be quite strange sometimes. 

This is looking great. We should probably be getting paid.

We worked very hard and now Person's stool is all done! She let us sit on it which was very exciting because it is much taller than a normal chair so we feel important. We are always important but Persons don't always realize it.

Where is our treat for all that hard work?

Now we just need to get Person to put the new stool to good use in the studio making something nice for us. We really need some new clothes for future adventures.