Terra Firma

STILL STANDING:  Look at Scott Kelly, conquering gravity like a boss!

Just a few hours after returning to Earth after a 340-day absence (while on board the ISS), Kelly was walking around, no trouble. 

Here's an awesome shot of Kelly falling back to Earth yesterday, in a remote part of Kazakhstan. 

      Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Kelly is expected to return to Houston at about 9:55 a.m. Thursday. NASA Television will broadcast Kelly’s arrival back stateside beginning at 9:40 a.m.

Speaking of space, as we've been known to do, this afternoon, we watched the wonderful, Oscar-nominated animated short “We Can’t Live Without Cosmos.” The 15-minute (word-free) film by Konstantin Bronzit follows a pair of cosmonauts as they prepare for a space mission.

The New Yorker has posted the video on YouTube. I'm not going to post any spoilers here, other than saying, have some Kleenex ready. Sniffle.

https://youtu.be/2ClMGtB7yhc

SORRY, SEUSS:  Today is the birthday of Theodore Giesel, better known as Dr. Seuss. We've always tried to mark the day in some special way, and yesterday the kids asked for green eggs and ham as today's observance. 

Specifically, Annabelle wanted the egg to look just like the one in the book - like a 'normal' fried egg, but the yolk is green instead of white. We talked about various ways to potentially make this happen and I hit upon the idea of sprayed on food coloring we had in the cupboard. Sounded like an easy, sure bet! ... 

First, we carefully fried up a couple of eggs.

We plated them atop some ham. ...

Then, we used a shield to supposedly carefully shoot the green only onto the yolk.

And here is the horrific final product!

Bleech. 

Wouldn't want to leave you with that, so we'll leave you with this. ...