Lughnasa Waning Green Corn Moon
We move into the new moon tomorrow, the moon that will see us well into September, the harvest moon.
Rigel and Vega do not feel good. They have lain around ever since returning from the vet and their surgery. When I came downstairs, they lay together, Vega’s head on Rigel’s chest. Littermates hang together throughout life; Hilo and Kona still sleep together and cuddle, 8 years after leaving mom behind.
I guessed Vega’s weight to be 90 lbs and she weighed out at 86.5. I guessed Rigel at 73 and she came back 74.5.
Political agony has not ended with the demise of the Bush administration. Now we begin to see why the left has not trusted the Democratic party for years. Even with solid majorities in both houses division between fiscally liberal and fiscally conservative Democrats make passage of health care reform of any meaningful kind unlikely.
