Who knew?

Carl Sagan's sister lives here.

Apollo 11

Stories from 40 years ago about Apollo 11 and the Clear Lake area.   Fun to read and see the photos!

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's...the Space Shuttle Endeavor??

C called from work yesterday right before noon.  He said sorry for the short notice but he just found out himself.  Seems the Space Shuttle Endeavor that was piggy backing its way from CA to FL would be flying over our heads at any moment.

I grabbed the camera and ran outside.  I saw the amazing thing twice through the trees (not picture material nor enough time to register in my brain fast enough to take a picture) the pilot was flying so low.  But I managed to grab these two lame shots on the one pass that I could see it.  They turned out ok once I cropped them.  It was an amazing sight to see!

Spacemonkey has great photos here.  

We have really been spoiled these past 24 hours with snow and a front seat to a shuttle fly by.  Wonder what else can happen this week?  

Eating food instruction

I just thought of a funny thing about the night we evacuated for Ike.  Earlier that week I had come across those yogurt in a tube things but it was better because it was from Stoneyfield Farms and was organic yogurt in a tube.  They were really convenient to toss into each of the kids' snack bags for the road trip.  I was so proud of myself, yogurt without the mess or need for a spoon!  Great invention. 

Well, I neglected to show the kids how to eat the yogurt in a tube.  I know O had problems with it but was able to take some direction from C so he figured it out.  M took quite a while before she began to figure it out.  She was trying to suck it like a straw and had no luck at all.  It was very frustrating for her and added extra stress for me while I was trying to drive as I was waiting to get squirted with yogurt.  That wouldn't smell very good in my car a few days later.  I was trying so hard to explain how to push the yogurt up from the bottom once she had squeezed it all up from the middle.  While it was frustrating for both of us, it did give me the chance to giggle a bit in the middle of all of that chaos.  Who knew I'd have to hold a class on how to eat yogurt from a tube!