Space Lab

This evening, on an email tip from David Ruthstrom, Debbie and I watched the International Space Lab pass overhead, from horizon to horizon, brighter than Venus, which it passed right by. It took less than ten minutes to orbit out of the western sky and track east, right over El Paso, about 45 degrees above the horizon. I was watching from our back yard and Debbie from the roof of the hospital, since she's working tonight. It was cool.

Oops! Thought this was Facebook.....

Happy Birthday, Bernard!!

Hope it's good...

btw, thanks for the Christmas card

and gift!

Brrr

It was -2 degrees Farenheit this morning on the way to work,folks, and I'm not talking windchill. With a predicted high of 14, it's really cold! Our house is heated with oil, a good thing as there is a problem between Russia and the Ukraine so gaslines have been shut off, resulting in shortages. There's snow on the ground again from the other day, and we still have dirty piles of snow in the shady spots from November. Looking forward to our visit to El Paso, for more than one reason.

Christmas 08 at Pat and Debbie's

Love to all of you from both of us!
Babette and Ralph

Holy Cow :)

Holy Cow indeed, Babette your trip sounds awesome! Congratulations Selim on being all of the host you bragged to be!
Anne, Chris, Steve, Emily what a great Christmas photo though I was confused by the "Dom"? and the Christmas Pyramid? Please explain...
Gifts with address now available, anything special from the rural south?
Why honey child we have Pecans in all sorts of fancy flavors as well as blueberry salad dressing, cinnamon syrup to add to all sorts of goodies, moon pies and roasted peanuts (I'd offer raw peanuts but I've sent some to Debbie to boil and one package got there OK but another was molded ~peeyew ~stinky I have no doubt). Give me some clues as looking at the calendar you'll be lucky to get New Years Gifts ladies ;-) Hugs from the lost sister, Bernadette
p.s. for those who knew I'd gone through a significant testing ordeal I've been diagnosed with just a teensy bit of arthritis in a couple of spots and everything is A-OK (or soon to be I hope:-) As Anne would say Ciao ~ ya'll.