Atlantis arrived home safely

Our shuttle had to land at Edwards Air force Base, again, do to rain here, not actually here but up at Kennedy Space Center way northeast of here, with a price tag of 1.8M for the return to here trip, each and every time that happens. But the mission was a total success having repaired Hubble, the space telescope, and sending her back out to do her job for maybe ten more years. Did you know that you can follow all of NASA’s Missions on this site: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/

As the price of gas sneaks up slowly again I thought I ought to give you something that may be helpful to get the best bang for your buck gas-wise: http://gasbuddy.com/
All you have to do when you get to the site is put your zip code in and there you go the local prices for your area! It works in Canada too. There are other sites out there, and I am sure they too are just as good; try and use them for your own savings.

With all this rain around you can only imagine how our grass has grown, and yes today it has received its second cut of the season. Although, oddly enough today we again had no rain, but noise today that was threatening.

We put our flag out today to commemorate the holiday Memorial Day, which is actually tomorrow, but it is Kosher to put it out for two of the days according to flag law, and so it will be out again tomorrow for the actual day of the occasion.
Shall I go into why we celebrate Memorial Day tonight?
OK, I will it is the eve of the holiday.
Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in our nation's service. It’s as simple as that.
For a more elaborate explanation you can go to: http://www.usmemorialday.org/backgrnd.html

It’s times like these that I often wonder if our children are being made aware of why they have the day off from school, do parents explain what each holiday comprises of for their child’s awareness or knowledge or perhaps the schools do take care of all that?
I always found it appealing as a child to read the encyclopedia on topics that interested me, which intern would lead me onto other topics from one page to another; now I do it online. Do children today, I wonder still have that type of curiosity of things about the world around them? That would be refreshing to know. I don’t mean politics or sex, but animals, wildlife, holidays, science and the like? I sure hope so.
These days I think of myself sort of like an adolescent, a tween, since our sons are grown adults and we are not yet grandparents; we are out of the grand/parenting loop.
The news at times is so upsetting discussing this generation of offspring, so that is why I do question how things really are.
As a land we have proved our resilience over and over again, so I can only hope that our children’s future is the same.

On that positive note I will bid you all a good night and to all count those blessings and I will too!