2012

Winter (snow, at last!)                           First Moon of the New Year OK.  I stayed up until midnight.  Now what? Another year.  Didn’t we just do this last year?  The whole new year’s thing. Kate and I shared champagne flutes of a Fre sparkling […]

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A Quiet New Year

Winter                            Full Moon of Long Nights We have gained back a few minutes since the Winter Solstice, so the New Year will arrive, as it does every year, with a bit more daylight than the grimmer days of mid-winter. The neighbors have begun to shoot off fireworks.  They are a restrained lot for the most […]

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Once in A Blue Moon, But Only Ten Years in a Decade

Winter                                    Full Moon of Long Nights “Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.” – Benjamin Franklin I want to weigh in on two critical debates germane to today and tomorrow.  First, the blue moon.  Current definition says a blue moon […]

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And A Happy…

9  bar steep fall 30.12  ENE9  windchill 9   Winter Waxing Crescent of the Wolf Moon Friend and cyberwizard Bill Schimdt reminded me of a wonderful show the sky put on tonight to celebrate the New Year.  The moon with Venus in its arms.  This is the waxing Wolf Moon, a sliver facing up toward the […]

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One Day Down, 364 To Go

0  72% 23% 0mph WNW bar 30.64 steep rise  windchill -2  Yuletide  New Year’s Day                               Waning Crescent of the Cold Moon  A day almost gone in the New Year.  Kate and I now have a weekly Skype call with Jon and Jen and Ruth+.  + being the one who comes.  This is weird because […]

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