Learn Something New, Day Five: Various

 

Saturday, May 4, 2007

 

On this day I learned several things:

 

I learned a new recipe for Peach Crumble (see previous entry);

 

I learned that I do like Apple Martinis;

 

And I learned that a good friend of ours, Vivian, who is in her eighties, worked for the Space Program when she was a young woman. 

 

She actually helped make the components for some of the equipment that was used on the moon during the Apollo program.  She just happened to mention this as she was leaving on Saturday, and didn’t have time to go into a lot of details, so she promised to tell us more later. 

 

I can’t believe I’ve known this lady for years, and never knew that about her.  She said that she was chosen along with some other young women, because of their dexterity.  She was (and still is) a good seamstress, and it was felt that she would be good at putting together these pieces of equipment because of her attention to detail, and her ability to do "close" work.

 

Wow!  You really do learn something new every day!