Joe Rao on space.com explains the 12 stages of the total lunar eclipse that will occur on 12/20-21. The article has all kinds of additional links for related interesting information including a time table for different time zones. Here are some pictures of other lunar eclipses.
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One of the quail obviously miscalculated its ability to walk on snow and sunk into it. Flapping its way out of the situation caused a beautiful snow angel – bird style!
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The day before Thanksgiving we had beautiful frost patterns on the windows. Here are a couple pictures!
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We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with friends and with phone calls with family. The weather was crispy but beautiful….
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What a rainy day! Grandpa Ron and I are headed over to the 2010 LA Auto Show later today. Photo Gallery here. They have a Kids’ Zone. We will be working the table for the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach as members of the Committee of 300. Here’s the Committee of 300 facebook page.
Here are the show hours and admission prices. You can print off a $2 discount coupon here.
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Inspired by my friend Rob’s Facebook status today about Special Education Week, I decided today had to be the day I shared an old article I ran across the other day. I had saved it because I wanted to share it with friends whose new baby has spina bifida. It is Ticket to Ride in the October 4th People Magazine.
Because I know several families with special needs kids, the article struck me as very special. Here was a dad who could do something – and DID it – to make the world a better place for not only his own special needs daughter Morgan, but for others as well.
Gordon and Maggie Hartman created Morgan’s Wonderland in San Antonio, Texas. It is a place where kids can ride a train, a carousel, a swing or they can experience sensory activities such as the interactive music garden – all independent of their physical or mental abilities. Actually it is even better than that because special needs adults can also have these great experiences – maybe even for the first time in their lives.
ABC News ran a special report American Heart: Spreading Joy to Special Kids about the new park that opened last April 2010. Here is the vision for a park for special needs people as documented by Gordon Hartman in its conceptual phase.
The hours, pricing and directions are here.
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I’ve been home sick with a cold for two days. Grandpa Ron has been taking care of me! Aw! He brought me lunch and dinner. What a sweety. But then about 10 minutes ago he calls and says “Go quick outside and enjoy the beautiful sunset!” So I grabbed the camera and ran to the end of our street. Snap! Snap! Snap! Hurry, before it’s gone! Now it’s dark! BUT – here are the photos for you to see that sunset, too! It is low tide so the water is low along the beaches but there are still some nice reflections! Was great to enjoy the sunset! 🙂
Enjoy!
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We totally enjoyed yesterday’s session of the 2010 Women’s Conference in Long Beach, CA. We didn’t get tickets again (last year we missed out, too) so we are logged in to the White House blog site to get the streaming from the main day of the women’s conference to our conference room at work. You can do so from here. I have enclosed the blog from the White House here: Women’s Conference Live Streaming
I hope you are able to watch at least some of it because it is truly an awesome experience.
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Our videographer, 24KT Sound and Video, put together this little clip of the two teddy bears (that we received from Jan, the Best Man, and Marline, the Matron of Honor, at the wedding reception) as they mouthed our messages for each other as we had recorded during the reception. Ok, it’s sappy. But they’re our words for each other….. Enjoy!
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Grandpa, Do It! I Do It, Too will be in Frankfurt, Germany, this week at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Hopefully it will find a publisher interested in International Rights. That would be totally awesome, huh! 🙂 It is in Germany the same week we get married!
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