St. Patricks Day!

We Started celebrating Early this Year

The Leprechaun was up to his old tricks turning Everything Green - Even the Toilet Water!

There was lots of fun after corned beef and cabbage!

TSquare Chemistry Night at the Imagination Workshop

Here is the Video of Chemistry Night at the Imagination Workshop with TSquare .

Part 1

Part 2

Imagination Workshop Celebrates International Year of Astronomy 2009

"If only I could have attended Professor Pennypickle's International Year of Astronomy Night! What fun I would have had! But I am only a big fat yellow cat and I have to be satisfied with looking at this 3-d poster without glasses" sighed TJ. So sad he missed the fun.

BEAKER IS IN OUTER SPACE!

Here is some of the fun TJ missed. Did you miss it too? It is too bad that it rained. No telescopes out in the parking lot...But thanks to the tremedous help of Our Astronomer Wes Erickson we pulled it off. We could not have done it without the love of my life and lover of everything Astronomy, Gordon (our Moon-Man), Alexis our ever faithful volunteer, and Jenna and Nancy who kept my spirits up and did EVERYTHING!

Nancy's moon

3-D glasses

Making telescopes like Galileo did 400 years ago! Making our Solar System -------------------- Simulating Craters on the Moon

We learned so much from our Astronomer Wes Erickson!

It may have been raining outside but Our Moon-Man brought the moon to us with "Virtual Moon"!

Galileo would be so proud.

So everyone remember, this is the International Year of Astronomy. "The Universe is yours to Discover" Discover it! http://www.astronomy2009.org/

Antique Roadshow

The Antique Roadshow is so much fun! We were lucky enought to get invited by my sister Liz. She is so popular in the Desert. Gets invited EVERYWHERE! And a very good Grant Writer too. Check out her website http://www.lizwritesgrants.com/ And THANK YOU to another Liz in our lives... Liz from the Imagination Workshop, Thank you for taping this so we can save it for posterity! Anyway, as Mark would say "Back to the Roadshow" We enjoyed meeting Mark Wahlburg. We did not have anything of exceptional value except the fun we had! And we did not end up on the cutting room floor. Look close as Mark Closes episode 3 from Palm Springs California!

Internationl Year of Astronomy

2009 is the International Year Of Astronomy! Don't miss out on the beauty to be found in the Heaven's Above! This is the year for all people on earth to take the time to look in a telescope, attend a star party or just look up and say "hello" to the great hunter Orion and all of his Heavenly friends!

Grampa took this picture of the Orion Nebula from our back yard on 12/30/08.

This Picture of the Orion Nebula was taken by the Hubble Telescope in October of 2007

Also known as M42 the nebula's glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1,500 light-years away. The Orion Nebula offers one of the best opportunities to study how stars are born.

For more information about Orion Nebula visit http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2006/01/image/a

The Great Nebula in Orion can be found just below and to the left of the easily identifiable belt of three stars in the popular constellation Orion.

For more information about the International Year of Astronomy visit:

http://www.astronomy2009.org/

It's Over TJ

Yes TJ - Cats have Christmas too. But its over now. Time to put away the ornaments and lights. Time to carefully wrap the nativity and put it in the box. But try to keep the feeling in our hearts. I think we're gonna need it in 2009!

Andromeda

I have been remiss in updating this blog. Time flies by so fast. I read a book that told the lesson of the 5 balls. We should all remember this. Life is like juggling 5 balls. The 5 balls are Work, Family, Health, Friends and Integrity. The work ball is made of rubber. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls are made of glass. It you drop it may be irrevocably scuffed, nicked or perhaps even shattered. Take care which ball you drop while juggling.



Now to Andromeda. We have been visiting Andromeda a lot lately. Grampa is getting very good at his photography. Remeber the picture is from a very inexpensive telescope and camera. the blurry spot is the andromeda galaxy. We were watching it the other night and I saw a bright light fly out of it. a falling star? or the Mother Ship?