Full Two Captains Moon
1-8-19
January19 FMA
Greetings y'all!
We have managed to keep with the spirit of the season and spend lots of time with family and we are all still talking to each other. P is back in school and I am at work preparing for a new class and a new semester of busyness. We are both excited and happy to be useful and to love our work.
To answer your question about why call this month's FMA the Full Two Captain's Moon? Simple, I have two fine sons. Jake is a career Navy guy and Joe is a career Fire guy. Joe has been a fireman in our New Iberia Fire Department for 10 years. Joe is a Captain in the FD. That journey was a slow steady rise. First you put in your time then you test and qualify then you wait for another Fire Captain to retire or die thus making room for you in a small-town fire department. Initially you fill in the rotation as a sub then you are a real Captain doing a rotation all over town then eventually stabilizing to work at primarily one station covering one zone of the city every shift.
Since 1990 Jake the submariner has been putting in his time, first the US Naval Academy, qualifying and working up the ranks. Jake just completed his command tour as CO of the Santa Fe, a fast boat out of Pearl Harbor. He now holds down a desk in the basement of the Pentagon, as he says "in the bow". Jake just earned the rank of Captain and was sworn in as the Navy's newest Captain last week. P and I were there! more later.
11-23-18 Black Friday Protest at Rutherford Beach has been postponed until 12-8-18, be there of be square!
11-25-11 Swarm of red and black fly-like wasps or wasp-like flies hovering over my Salvia coccinia, Tropical Sage. I have never seen this insect before and am fascinated. Fascinated enough to text CA a photo image I managed to capture but alas CA don't do dat, never did, that is what the Dog say. So I still don't know what it is.
11-29-18 My UNIV100 section, 25 first time freshmen and 1 Peer Mentor, held the last class of the semester on the big deck under the big live oak behind the library. I brought breakfast biscuits provided by my bud Stanley. It is so frustrating to feed freshmen, male or female, they are embarrassed to eat in front of each other, go figger. Good class though, our topic is "Coastal South Louisiana Environmental Issues and Concerns". Very cool.
Ragged flight of feathered crawfishermen undulating over La 92 in the early morning light.
11-30-18 Sorry Beth...Oil Train! two pushers, two pullers, with boxcar on both ends of 120 big black dirty, menacing, deadly oil tankers blasting its way through the dawn crushing the morning peace.
12-3-18 Fingernail moon with a bright planet a hands width to one side, breathtaking. Incredible sunrise too!
12-6-18 Another oil train, afternoon oil train, 3pm, W-E. Sorry Beth.
My buddy David R. asked the other day if there were really that many oil trains in my country and why did I think it was so. I told him I figger there are more than I see but yes. I guess it is cheaper to haul it on rails that put in a pipeline having to fight indians and enviro-whackos. what I did not say is that east bound or west bound they are full if they have two pushers and two pullers. I noted one headed north after "Cast and Blast Weekend" along US165, northbound with only pullers, I figger that dude was empty.
12-7-18 New Moon! Big rain coming, again.
12-8-18 OK y'all the big rain noted yesterday caught us, we have to postpone the Black Friday Beach Protest until a later date. Keep you posted. Possibly Jan 19-20 or Feb 9-10.
12-115/16-18 Cast and Blast Weekend with brothers and our host David. We had the finest of fun, great fishing, great duck hunting, great stories, great companions (fine conservative christian men), great food, great beverages! Thank you David, John (Big Brother) and Jeff (Baby Brother), they call me Elder Brother.
1-3-19 P and I rose at 1am to dress, load up and drive to NO airport for a 530 flight to DC Regan via Charlotte. Whew, made it. Picked up by Ran at 1130, chopping veggies for after party and big Gumbo until we fell into be at 1030, whew! we are here for Jake's promotion ceremony and after party.
1-4-19 Up at 630 to chop and slice and stir and de-bone until we had to dress, pile in the station wagon and head to the National Mall. We met Jake's commanding officer an army general. We also met up with three guys that work with him in his pod. Y'all, at the Lincoln Memorial. Small group, work team, his three kids and wife and us. 4pm on the steps, it was amazing. Visitors from all over the country, the world stopped, stared, photoed the swearing in then we raced home to do final food prepping. Party was great, rain waited until everyone was in place. We had much fun. Fell into bed at midnight.
1-5-19 sleeping til 1030 easy with a house full of teens.
1-6-19 Up at 4am to catch early flight, on ground in NO at 11am, home by 2pm, in time for a grand nap!
1-8-19 Fine fingernail moon sitting on tree tops in my back yard as I walked out to close up the girls. Full moon will be in 13 nights. We are just past new moon, "light on right, moon on increase".
WORD FOR THE DAY, GRATEFULNESS
The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most
worthy, and after all, our most pleasing
responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to
foster its renewal is our only hope.
WENDELL BERRY
from our friend Arleen
1-18-19 Louisiana Arbor day, is always the third Friday of January. Why you ask? Because Fall and winter are for planting in Louisiana, look around, it is wet and cold. Mid January is about the end of the season when you can easily dig and replant young trees moving them about in your home landscape. Plant more than one, Plant native forest trees in your Louisiana landscape. Do so in honor of a recently deceased loved one or a recently birthed loved one. Shoots Dog, any ol reason to plant a tree is a good one. Come on Dog, I know prairie dudes love full sun, but at the end of that hot day or after lunch y'all just love a nap in the shade of a tree someone planted years ago, so get up and get with the program! I was assisted on campus by Vic, Pearl, Teri and Gabrielle, oh and Will! We named one of the trees after Will's new bride, Audrey,"a newly married loved one"!
short poem by Nayyirah Waheed
Sometimes the night wakes
the middle of me
and
I can do nothing
but
become
the
moon.
1-21-19 Happy Birthday Martin (Dr. King)
A total lunar eclipse Sunday night y'all.
Celebrate the Full Two Captains Moon as it rises minutes before the sun sets, should be a fine rising. Get out there and really live for a few in the great outdoors. You cannot enjoy this on TV, just not the same!
Take your old people and little kids and surly tweens and teens, be sure to unplug them, oh and don't forget your honey and the tart red! That sounds like a station wagon full fer sher!
peace love possumhugs
BT
January19 FMA
Greetings y'all!
We have managed to keep with the spirit of the season and spend lots of time with family and we are all still talking to each other. P is back in school and I am at work preparing for a new class and a new semester of busyness. We are both excited and happy to be useful and to love our work.
To answer your question about why call this month's FMA the Full Two Captain's Moon? Simple, I have two fine sons. Jake is a career Navy guy and Joe is a career Fire guy. Joe has been a fireman in our New Iberia Fire Department for 10 years. Joe is a Captain in the FD. That journey was a slow steady rise. First you put in your time then you test and qualify then you wait for another Fire Captain to retire or die thus making room for you in a small-town fire department. Initially you fill in the rotation as a sub then you are a real Captain doing a rotation all over town then eventually stabilizing to work at primarily one station covering one zone of the city every shift.
Since 1990 Jake the submariner has been putting in his time, first the US Naval Academy, qualifying and working up the ranks. Jake just completed his command tour as CO of the Santa Fe, a fast boat out of Pearl Harbor. He now holds down a desk in the basement of the Pentagon, as he says "in the bow". Jake just earned the rank of Captain and was sworn in as the Navy's newest Captain last week. P and I were there! more later.
11-23-18 Black Friday Protest at Rutherford Beach has been postponed until 12-8-18, be there of be square!
11-25-11 Swarm of red and black fly-like wasps or wasp-like flies hovering over my Salvia coccinia, Tropical Sage. I have never seen this insect before and am fascinated. Fascinated enough to text CA a photo image I managed to capture but alas CA don't do dat, never did, that is what the Dog say. So I still don't know what it is.
11-29-18 My UNIV100 section, 25 first time freshmen and 1 Peer Mentor, held the last class of the semester on the big deck under the big live oak behind the library. I brought breakfast biscuits provided by my bud Stanley. It is so frustrating to feed freshmen, male or female, they are embarrassed to eat in front of each other, go figger. Good class though, our topic is "Coastal South Louisiana Environmental Issues and Concerns". Very cool.
Ragged flight of feathered crawfishermen undulating over La 92 in the early morning light.
11-30-18 Sorry Beth...Oil Train! two pushers, two pullers, with boxcar on both ends of 120 big black dirty, menacing, deadly oil tankers blasting its way through the dawn crushing the morning peace.
12-3-18 Fingernail moon with a bright planet a hands width to one side, breathtaking. Incredible sunrise too!
12-6-18 Another oil train, afternoon oil train, 3pm, W-E. Sorry Beth.
My buddy David R. asked the other day if there were really that many oil trains in my country and why did I think it was so. I told him I figger there are more than I see but yes. I guess it is cheaper to haul it on rails that put in a pipeline having to fight indians and enviro-whackos. what I did not say is that east bound or west bound they are full if they have two pushers and two pullers. I noted one headed north after "Cast and Blast Weekend" along US165, northbound with only pullers, I figger that dude was empty.
12-7-18 New Moon! Big rain coming, again.
12-8-18 OK y'all the big rain noted yesterday caught us, we have to postpone the Black Friday Beach Protest until a later date. Keep you posted. Possibly Jan 19-20 or Feb 9-10.
12-115/16-18 Cast and Blast Weekend with brothers and our host David. We had the finest of fun, great fishing, great duck hunting, great stories, great companions (fine conservative christian men), great food, great beverages! Thank you David, John (Big Brother) and Jeff (Baby Brother), they call me Elder Brother.
1-3-19 P and I rose at 1am to dress, load up and drive to NO airport for a 530 flight to DC Regan via Charlotte. Whew, made it. Picked up by Ran at 1130, chopping veggies for after party and big Gumbo until we fell into be at 1030, whew! we are here for Jake's promotion ceremony and after party.
1-4-19 Up at 630 to chop and slice and stir and de-bone until we had to dress, pile in the station wagon and head to the National Mall. We met Jake's commanding officer an army general. We also met up with three guys that work with him in his pod. Y'all, at the Lincoln Memorial. Small group, work team, his three kids and wife and us. 4pm on the steps, it was amazing. Visitors from all over the country, the world stopped, stared, photoed the swearing in then we raced home to do final food prepping. Party was great, rain waited until everyone was in place. We had much fun. Fell into bed at midnight.
1-5-19 sleeping til 1030 easy with a house full of teens.
1-6-19 Up at 4am to catch early flight, on ground in NO at 11am, home by 2pm, in time for a grand nap!
1-8-19 Fine fingernail moon sitting on tree tops in my back yard as I walked out to close up the girls. Full moon will be in 13 nights. We are just past new moon, "light on right, moon on increase".
WORD FOR THE DAY, GRATEFULNESS
The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most
worthy, and after all, our most pleasing
responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to
foster its renewal is our only hope.
WENDELL BERRY
from our friend Arleen
1-18-19 Louisiana Arbor day, is always the third Friday of January. Why you ask? Because Fall and winter are for planting in Louisiana, look around, it is wet and cold. Mid January is about the end of the season when you can easily dig and replant young trees moving them about in your home landscape. Plant more than one, Plant native forest trees in your Louisiana landscape. Do so in honor of a recently deceased loved one or a recently birthed loved one. Shoots Dog, any ol reason to plant a tree is a good one. Come on Dog, I know prairie dudes love full sun, but at the end of that hot day or after lunch y'all just love a nap in the shade of a tree someone planted years ago, so get up and get with the program! I was assisted on campus by Vic, Pearl, Teri and Gabrielle, oh and Will! We named one of the trees after Will's new bride, Audrey,"a newly married loved one"!
short poem by Nayyirah Waheed
Sometimes the night wakes
the middle of me
and
I can do nothing
but
become
the
moon.
1-21-19 Happy Birthday Martin (Dr. King)
A total lunar eclipse Sunday night y'all.
Celebrate the Full Two Captains Moon as it rises minutes before the sun sets, should be a fine rising. Get out there and really live for a few in the great outdoors. You cannot enjoy this on TV, just not the same!
Take your old people and little kids and surly tweens and teens, be sure to unplug them, oh and don't forget your honey and the tart red! That sounds like a station wagon full fer sher!
peace love possumhugs
BT
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