Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Grounded

JARRING: Last night, we finally got around to using some of CJ's hot hot hot peppers, making some salsa verde with tomatillos from our garden plus some ghost chili peppers.

We handled the ghost chilies like they were hazardous material (which they can be). Picture gloves, goggles and roasting them outside (after reading about the hazards of cooking them indoors). 

One of the chilies was spread among six little jars of salsa. (See the orange bits above? That's what you should be afraid of.)  After canning them, I worked up the courage to taste a little of the leftovers. My lips tingled a little afterward, but it wasn't too hot. I vote we double up the chilies next time!

Speaking of produce and the garden's bounty, today we were back out to Marra Farm today for another field trip. 
This time we got to work the land!

Our group of around 20 spent about an hour or so weeding. 
The balance of the trip collecting acorn squash, which will be headed to a local food banks. 
Our work was supervised by a friendly manager from Lettuce Link.

MOVIE MAGIC: Just a couple of nights ago, our family was talking about claymation, and how you hardly see it any more. Imagine our delight today, discovering the European Space Agency had just posted a clay-animated version of the Rosetta (comet landing) mission!
https://youtu.be/4Oo8KnTsyk0

The video above was produced by the Royal Observatory Greenwich. It explains what Rosetta and Philae have achieved as well as how the mission has impacted our knowledge of our very own solar system. 

The Royal Observatory Greenwich ha also produced a clay-animated video about space rocks, and how they tell us about our own planet. 

1 comment:

  1. That video about space rocks has a lot of origin of life on Earth theory in a very short very well-done presentation. Worth a couple of views at least. Never heard that Jupiter's orbit is called the snow line til this video. Thanks.

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