BOYS AND GIRLS OF SUMMER: Baseball is back. Well, sort of. The season usually starts in March, but it's late July - post all-st...

FISH ON: In a pre-COVID world, Christian and the kids would be camping this week. That likely would have involved some fishing.  Giv...

HOW IT GROWS: It's been a minute since we've updated the growings on in the MPA garden. We have our first tomato with c...

RAINBOW CONNECTION: A couple of evenings ago, there was a magnificent rainbow to our south. It was pretty darn close to the house (especia...

JUST ONE:   Our solo sunflower bloomed this week. It's not big, and it's not strong (it falls over all of the time), but it is pre...

KEYS TO THE CITY: Yesterday evening we were out looking for some good takeout (that ended up being an epic quest) and out of nowhere, CJ s...

Laboratory in Pasadena, California, engineers observed the first driving test for NASA's Mars 2020 rover on Dec. 17, 2019.  Credits: ...