So Close

Conceptual art: NASA

MARS TOMORROW!: You know what we'll be doing midday tomorrow ... watching NASA land their Perseverance rover on Mars!

You can tune in for live coverage and landing commentary from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) beginning at 11:15 a.m. West Coast time on the NASA TV Public Channel and the agency’s website, as well as the NASA App, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitch, Daily Motion, and THETA.TV. Touchdown is scheduled for approximately 12:55 p.m. 

Months - or was it years? - ago, we filled out an online form to get on board this mission. Our names are being carried to Mars on Perseverance, and we even got official boarding passes. 

Turns out these passes are going to pay off. Tomorrow we can get a FREE Mars treat at Krispy Kreme if we show them our passes. You know we'll be all over that!

                                        Photo: Krispy Kreme

BLOODY ORANGES: So, we like trying new produce from time to time. "A raspberry orange? Well those look like fun," I thought.

Until I cut into it and it looks like organ meat <shudder>.

And then when I started squeezing it for the juice I needed for a recipe ... double shudder. It looked like the prom scene from "Carrie" on my kitchen counter.

No thanks.

With my eyes closed, I used the grated peel and juice in a recipe for our Cubanos sandwiches tonight but ewww. 

WEIGHING IN: Last week, the kids were asked by a former teacher of theirs to submit a video explaining their preferred learning style and how they like being able to choose their own topics of study when that's an option. The teacher friend is working with a Seattle high school who has a number of kids struggling with the online learning model and who have lost interest in education. She is encouraging teachers to perhaps mix it up a bit with how .

I forwarded the request to the kids and told them they were on their own to make the videos, as I was busy that day trying to get COVID doses in my parents' arms. Happily, they did make the videos. Yesterday our teacher friend emailed thanking them for their input and it reminded me that I hadn't even viewed the videos yet!  

If anyone wants to take a peek, they were here ...

CJ: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13RODafmFgJ5r2pHD-NtV0n59nhQIbg8d/view?usp=sharing

Annabelle: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19q-Lu2taKU3XsWlmI14WkmFaa5EBmgf-/view?usp=sharing