Surface of the Red Planet: images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter satellite - Telegraph

Surface of the Red Planet: images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter satellite - Telegraph

I have always been a fan of NASA and Google Earth Mars mapping. Some of these photos are just great. I have been cleaning the house today getting ready for some construction work to block deer mice, looked at tunnels outside the foundation today, and got the house ready for next week's push. Yesterday was a good day at Trinity Stables where I managed to learn how to take a horse trained for the race track who wants to break into a trot and push his nose over to my toe to stop him from trying to take the easy way out against instructions and running away. Today I managed to wash Dash, Starbright, and Belle standing over by Leroy the donkey as they were ridden by Hazel's grand kids. They were so sweet with pony rides. It is good to have grand parents with horses. Dash and Starbright were very good. I am good at massaging horse necks so I worked on relaxing Belle as she screamed at Starbright being close to Dash. Belle is in heat. Naturally with all those horses in saddle and being ridden three fire trucks and a EMT truck went by sirens blazing. We never did see smoke but more than one fire truck went east of us. Diana can read a horse language with her eye and I very much still learning, but it is interesting to see all the interactions. Today while doing dishes, laundry, the utility room floor, and getting the den ready for plugging holes no matter how tiny. I did find a tunnel about one inch in diameter below the PVC pipe that holds the conduit for the carriage light outside. One tool for deer mice is to use cloves so we swept some in the carpet near potential holes since we really still don't know where they are. The good thing is we have not seen one in 48 hours now. But the fact there was even one means there is a hole that has to be filled in for the future. Next I get the heat pump serviced for preventative maintenance, and walking the property perimeter I found limbs had hit the fence line to my east so that has to be worked on again. Diana still does not want to make a bonfire of limbs from the ice storm which are getting too brittle for sawing for use now so we have habitat for wildlife and less area for my hiking. I think the woods are full of debris and that may be one reason fire season is not going to be fun this year. My forestry friends are going to be busy this year I think and they deserve better.