THE PATH TO MY FIRST POCKET SUNDIAL
Many years ago, I read an article in the May/June 1982 Mother Earth News by Carmen E. Trisler, who made tiny sundials inside aspirin tins. The idea was that you could make it small, carry it around in your pocket, and then just set it up somewhere when you wanted to know the time, during daylight hours.
But since I never buy aspirin, it didn’t make sense to buy the container of aspirin just for the tin, and I saved the article for years in one of my many files.
Then one day it happened! A worker who was doing some carpentry at our home discarded an empty aspirin tin in my trash can. I picked it out as soon as I spotted it, knowing I could now proceed with this long-awaited project.
With the tin in hand, I quickly shuffled through my files of clippings, trying to find the old article. Amazingly, with my eclectic system of filing, I found it! The article described how to make a useful sundial that folds into an aspirin tin. All I had to do, the article proclaimed, was to cut out (or copy) the dial face from the magazine, mount it onto stiff thin cardboard, and then put it into the tin. A simple one-size-fits-all sundial!
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