A Very Snowy Homecoming

Late Tuesday morning, 3/5/2019, we picked up our old bird in Lansing and drove deeper into the freezing weather that we had been driving in since southern Arkansas.  Conditions got worse!

Not only was it bitter cold but this is what our house (actually garage) looked like from the street.  Thank God that our neighbor, Francis, had been keeping the driveway plowed so we could get into it.

While Bill struggled to get the garage doors open, Karen used her gym conditioning to shovel this path to the house.

Finally making it into the house - this is what our riverside deck looked like from inside.

Dang : that show is heavy!

Notice the thermometer reading.

The deck upstairs was in no better condition.

We have a lot of work to do, and we are both praying for some warm weather to give us a little help..

We were told that this is the most snow up here since 1987!

As the sun went down it was so miserable outside that this flock of turkeys roosted in the trees above the house for a little extra warmth.

Now for the good news:

Our Frederic house is warm and everything inside seems to be working just fine.

After 6400 miles on the road is is good to be home.

(Kinda)

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Space Center Houston - Part 2

We spent most of Saturday at the NASA center so we are showing a few more pictures of what we experienced:

In one building we walked around a huge Saturn 5 rocket that was about as long as a football field.

This display shows (from left to right) in three sections how mission control has changed from the 1960's to today.

This is actual mission control today that we got to visit from a walkway above.

This is a technician's desk at mission control.  

The desks were rather quiet on a Saturday although the International Space Station was being tracked.

In a huge training building we got to see these simulators that astronauts used to learn and train for space work.

The training was done in what was called the mockup facility.

The NASA Space Center Houston was a fascinating place to spend a day.

We watched most of the movie presentations and took both tram tours.  We came away with a much better understanding of the history and future of the U.S. Space Program.

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We Visit Space Center Houston

On Friday afternoon we booked into a Comfort Suites Hotel in Webster, Texas which is about 20 miles southeast of downtown Houston.  On Saturday morning we drove a few miles to Space Center Houston which is the main home of NASA.  It is a huge campus with a museum and many displays besides the buildings of research, development, and training.

In this picture above the space shuttle is being transported back to Florida from one of its many flights.
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..here are both aircraft on display above that we had to walk past as we entered NASA Houston.

Bill poses for a picture inside  the shuttle.

Karen walks in the large Boeing aircraft that transported the shuttles.
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The main Space Center Houston museum is gigantic with hundreds of displays, theaters, stores, and even a large cafeteria.  Trams take visitors on tours around the complex.
More to come tomorrow.
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We Put Miss Kitty into Hibernation

On Friday morning, 3/1/2019, we drove east about 20 miles to Dixie Storage in La Feria, Texas.

We parked her in her new spot about 10 am and headed for Houston.

May she rest in peace until we see her again.

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