Egyptian Goose

Egyptian goose has established itself in several feral populations in Texas. I found these at Sea World at San Antonio...

 

... and then again a couple at a ranch in Bandera!

Ninja

Every year the kids celebrate the 100 days of school. One of Daniel's project at school was to create an art work with the number 100. I just received his portfolio this week and this is what I found -- a Ninja!

Daniel's Comment- " I was the only one that made a Ninja with my 100 number. Nobody else thought of it , Mommy.  I was very thinky!  (meaning very creative...I took me a few seconds to figure out what thinky meant. After a little while he continued...) I also made a Ninja on my instrument project. One can fight one half of the world and the other one can fight the other half of the world!"

The musical instruments projet has not come home yet - can't wait to see what Ninja #2 looks like.

Update: 3-28-13  And here it is...the trumpet Ninja!

 

"It was a trumpet, but now it's a Ninja and the Ninja protects the world."

 

Update: 9-6-13 To my surprise at the end of the school year I received another Ninja art!

And the Ninja theme continutes at the start of the new school year...

 

Daniel has addedAngry Birds StarWars  to his 'collection' over the summer - let's see how long that lasts...

 

Delivering the goods

http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/

NASA has a really nice program that allows you to enter a location in the world and get a report of possible satellites sightings for that area.  I realized too late today that I could've looked for the Space X Dragon capsule and the International Space Station up in the sky - oh well...  The Dragon is expected to arrive at and deliver goods to the ISS in the next couple of days.

NASA:  Updated - March 1, 2013 at 11:45 a.m. ESTThe SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft lifted off on the SpaceX 2 mission March 1 at 10:10 a.m. EST from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.