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02 February 2003
 
And a joyous Imbolg to everyone. Yes, this is the rfirst day of spring. Honor Brigid and her cloak of stars! Honor motherhood! Clean out all the winter blahs. Have a feast!

Well I'll be having a feast later, but dessert is already made. I just finished honey-roasting some almonds which came out marvelous, and later we'll be having some lamb and whatnot, mashed potatoes, yumminess. It is going to be a very almondy dinner as there will be chopped almonds in with the lamb. Anyway, I got all my recipes over at Goode Cookery, there's alink in my links section over to the side. There is lots of yummy stuff there. But I think it's time for me to do some organizing.

But not before I point out moment of recognition for the brave Space Ants who died yesterday. Don't think me mean and cruel for not honoring the poeple, because it has to be pretty much hellish on their friends and families. But what the news barely touches upon are the experiments that went up in the Columbia with the crew. A local high school managed to get one of their experiments approved by NASA and sent up into space. And it was to test the effects of zero gravity on the tunneling behavior of ants. And the last that was heard, that colony of Space Ants were in bliss up in space. Apparently they were tunneling faster than the control colony back on earth. Like 5 times faster or something. And it was really cool that they managed to keep themselves relative as far as up and down went, and the students feared that they would die of overexertion (if they had been tunneling in natural soil as opposed to the nutrient stuff they lived in so they could eat and work at the same time). So the little space ants in their little ant space-suits are no more. No coming back to see how they would react with gravity again. No telling tales to the other ants at the HS, telling them how wonderful space was. And that makes me sad.

*sigh*

Liz the Mischievous renovated @ 13:50