Fun Week

This week has been very exciting for us.

Brett finally got a job recently. He's working this summer with a grad student to test samples from a steel company. He loves his job and tells me he never imagined he would like working in a lab so much.

 

 

In these pictures he's using a machine to gold-sputter the tops of the samples so that they can be tested later on more easily.

We were able to see the Venus transit, where Venus passed in front of the sun. We had to wait 45 minutes in line to have a look through the telescope at the Missouri University of Science & Technology observatory, but it was well worth the wait. This event will not happen again for another 105 years in 2117.

To see what it looked like please visit this website to see my grandfather's images http://spaceweather.com/submissions/pics/j/James-W.-Young-05June12-Venus-Montage2a_1339029436.jpg

I am proud that my grandfather is an astronomer. My fascination for the wonders beyond our world come from him.

I received a wonderful gift from a friend of mine this week: a container of blueberries that her and her husband had just picked.

Fortunately I had just bought a box of blueberries on sale at the grocery store and so I decided to attempt to make a blueberry pie so they all wouldn't go to waste. It was my first time making a fruit pie, so forgive me for it's appearance, but I just had to take a picture because of how proud I was.

My husband, a pie-lover, gave me this stoneware pie dish for Christmas, so he was pretty thrilled. I'm not a great pie-lover, but this pie was so delicious!

We went to a firework show put on by the explosives students at MST (Brett's school). We were very impressed. One officer advised us beforehand to relocate our seating because she said we would get really hot. We understood what she meant when the finale came around. The show ended with a sudden (controlled) gas explosion that blasted half a dozen blazing hot fireballs into the sky, throwing the audience backwards from the heat wave. It was quite thrilling.