Saturday, September 24, 2011

Go Diamondbacks

We are the champions.

Go Diamondbacks.

On to the World Series

Susan

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Space Thursday ( boy I hope this works)

I hope all the goodies on here work as I had to copy this from it's site. All the sites that have share icons never have Multiply, things I have never heard of, but never Multiply. Time to speak to them about that.

Enjoy

 

 

 

News Release Number: STScI-2011-17

Pandora's Cluster – Clash of the Titans

June 22, 2011: A team of scientists studying the galaxy cluster Abell 2744, nicknamed Pandora's Cluster, have pieced together the cluster's complex and violent history using telescopes in space and on the ground, including the Hubble Space Telescope, the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, the Japanese Subaru telescope, and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.

The giant galaxy cluster appears to be the result of a simultaneous pile-up of at least four separate, smaller galaxy clusters that took place over a span of 350 million years. The galaxies in the cluster make up less than five percent of its mass. The gas (around 20 percent) is so hot that it shines only in X-rays (colored red in this image). The image is a composite of separate exposures made by Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys detectors in October 2009, the VLT, and the Chandra ACIS detector. Hubble provides the central, most detailed part of the image, while the VLT, which has a wider field of view, provides the outer parts of the image. The distribution of invisible dark matter (making up around 75 percent of the cluster's mass) is colored here in blue.

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Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Merten (Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Facebook

No Joy in facebook land. What a mess. I wonder what the kids think of all the changes or is just us old foggies who don't like it. Everything was so easy at the beginning. Just a few drop bys to see what people were up too. I am so glad that all my old friends from 360/Multiply are still here.  Nothing wrong with short blogs. I think I have had it with facebook.

Susan

Oh Joy

Oh joy oh joy, I had to wear a sweater to go out and pick up the newpaper this morning.

Oh joy, oh joy No more " don't ask, don't tell". It's about time the armed forces have respect for all who fight for our country.

Happy soon to be the Autumn Equinox.

Susan

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Trip to the Ranch




this is where the doggies and I went this morning. I use to live on this ranch, it has cows and irrigation ditches and pastures and that cute ranch shack is what I use to live in. It is full of junk right now, but when I was there it was the best little place. Except for the fact that the only heat I had came from a wood burning stove. I got very good at starting fires.
So we have pics of the upper (where Sadie is walking) irrigation ditch and lower ( which is the bigger one at the bottom of the hill) pastures and trees.
Of course there is Sadie and Jack being wild and crazy.

Rain

We have finally started to get the monsoon effect rain here. I am gloriously happy.

For the past three days we have gotten storms here at least twice a day. Torrential downpours. This morning it is humid and my skin says thank you great mother and your rain guys. The moisture is just getting sucked up everywhere.

Well it is our friends Debs birthday and I am wishing her many many more and today should be very special for her.

Got that you witchy garden woman you.

I will be out and about checking over the art sales.

But now it is off to the ranch with the doggies. They really need a good run.

Good Sunday to you all

Susan

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Bird,s Nest

Just had to share this.

I have a sweet mommy bird building a nest in the big cactus right outside my kitchen window.

It is such a joy to have been watching her everyday getting that home ready for her babes.

I think this is close to being finished.

Hope you can see it in the photos with out too much trouble.

Susan