Normally, like, for the last thirty years (or more!), the evening after Thanksgiving our house would be lit up with the first wave of Christmas lights.
Tonight, the 94% illuminated Moon and bright Jupiter will have to do. The lights will start to go up tomorrow, but today was better spent with two of our kids.
Endeavour is at the California Science Center but will be going off display for a couple of years after December 31st. The new building is well under way and you can see the last existing external tank out in back, while the last two solid rocket boosters (SRBs) are now upright and visible over the construction barriers. When it’s all said and done, Endeavour will be displayed in a vertical position with the external tank and SRBs all assembled in launch position. It’s going to be freakin’ awesome! But for now, I hadn’t seen her yet and wanted to before she went off display, so the kids made sure that it happened. (I have no idea why everyone else in the picture was dressed in dark colors while I stood out like a KC Chiefs peacock…)
After that my son and I went down to Hawthorne to see the SpaceX flight-proven booster that’s on display there. Also an incredibly cool thing.
Priorities, baby!
We Love The Stars Too Fondly 
And here the clear skies have given us heavy frosts. The moon shining on it is like daylight. I am so fed up with waking up in the night thinking it’s time to get up!
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