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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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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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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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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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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