Vicki’s sister was a welder once- of cool gates and fancy doors to fancy places- and she recommended welders goggles for our solar eclipse viewing ease.

Which ones though? How do you know which ones won’t fry your eyes? NASA.gov provides much info and ratings for different “solar eclipse glasses”… Not so much on welders goggles.

With a little online research we were off to, where else, Home Depot. After going down two wrong aisles we had to ask an orange-apron wearing worker. She didn’t know where welders goggles were but pointed to a guy “way down there” who would know.

He was cute, Vicki is single, so thought I’d try and stir up a little more chat than just directions.

“We are looking for welders goggles to use when going to see the solar eclipse.”

“Goggles are on aisle (whatever, I don’t remember)”

“Do you know what kind are safe for a solar eclipse?”

He shrugs and walks away.

Oh well, play time over. We Internet-searched a couple of specifications on various brands and then just picked.

Next: We re-think where we are going to see the eclipse.