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30Sep/090

First Day of School

This picture was taken back on Sept. 1, which was Libby's first day of her "Mom's Day Out" program year:
First day of "school"

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29Sep/090

Po-tay-toes!

This spring we had some rotten potatoes beginning to sprout in our kitchen, so I planted them. I just dug up a few of them last week and they look pretty tasty:
Potatoes from our garden
Two have already been eaten - I made a small batch of homemade potato chips; they were delicious.

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28Sep/090

Poodle Skirt

Libby looking sassy in her poodle skirt:
Libby in a poodle skirt

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27Sep/090

The Hubble Ultra-Deep Field in 3D

What happened when Hubble was pointed to a small area of the sky, no larger than a grain of sand held at arms length, which looked completely empty:

(via boingboing)

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25Sep/090

Autotuned Sagan and Hawking

The sky calls to us; if we do not destroy ourselves we will one day venture to the stars.

The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. Recently we've waded a little way out, and the water seems inviting.

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