Winter Solstice is right around the corner. In fact, it is one week from today on a Sunday this year. What that means is that I can have the annual winter solstice celebration start a bit earlier. I can light the celebratory fire a little closer to the actual sundown. The solar lights I planted in the ground last year didn’t survive. I needed to replace them all and there are 40 of them. This year, I’m putting in some waterproof light pucks although; I won’t bury them so that they’re at ground level this year. I’ll put them on the ground protected by some 3D printed PETG cups. Did I mention that there were 40 of them? For a maker, doing a thing once is kinda fun. Doing something 40 times becomes work! However, putting in the extra effort and doing something right usually works out in the end.

I made a prototype cup and used in on the top of my UFO lawn ornament. Actually, being a respectable Tucson resident, I don’t really have a lawn, per se. What I have are rocks and a few hardy plants that do well in our Sonoran Desert. I’ll post another entry as I get closer to the actual event. Should be a great one this year!

Below is the prototype “cup” mounted to the top of my UFO lawn ornament.

My UFO lawn ornament and the Aliens pulling it–the Aliens from Saturn–the Saturn Aliens