Full Slowly Shucking Gold Moon
Full moon is Saturday, September 14. Full Slowly Shucking Gold Moon ( OK Dog, say that fast three times!) rises about 8 after the sun sets at about 715. This should be a fine rising y'all, she woke me up at 3am this morning. I have chosen this name because since the last FM my amazing Red Buckeye Tree has been slowly dropping all of those yellow/gold fringed leaves. In the afternoon sunsets the color is especially fine. That is a sentiment my fellow Couriers des Bois ("Woods Runners") will understand. This is what Bill Fontenot calls the plant people of wild places. There are no finer human beings, y'all.
For the rest of them here is a question from Kathleen Dean Moore in Wild Comfort, "What will the Earth lose when it loses human beings?"
From John Muir, "Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in
woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed and as beautiful as life."
8-18-19 Kathleen Babineaux Blanco died today. News said she was the first female governor for Louisiana, heck y'all she was the only one. Kathleen was governor during the Katrina and Rita days. Louisiana folks know who those girls are and do not have to ask "who?"!
Kathleen was an Iberia Parish native and she singlehandedly put Coteau on the map. Blanco was criticized for being ill -prepared for those two killer storms, for publicly crying about what had happened to her people in New Orleans. Sigh, y'all I want my public leaders to be emotional.
She was a really fine person.
My Mom and Dad loved Kathleen and were next door neighbors to she and Raymond for years. Now, their word is good enough for me.
8-24-19 WAIT Y'ALL! THE MIKIs ARE GONE! I just noticed they are not flying or calling anymore. They just left without saying goodbye OR maybe I was not paying attention well enough.
Governor Blanco's funeral was today.
There goes an empty east bound oil train. Sigh!
8-25-19 I'm hauling water out to the gurls, the coop is very hot and humid with a horrendous mosquito population. As I stand there with bucket in hand I note a very green Mosquito Hawk (those of you who are not from here always stop me now and ask "What is a MH?" and I have to explain that this is what we call Dragon Flies in South Louisiana, and for good reason. Anyway I'm standing there with the water bucket in my hand when I notice this Mosquito Hawk hovering there framed in the open door of the coup at an altitude of 30" just waiting for a slow flying blood sucker to make a move. Very cool y'all, because me and the gurls need all the help we can get.
Fall color has begun in our rectangle of the earth with that old reliable Red Buckeye "slowly shucking gold".
8-28-19 Vivian Girour, my Father-in-Law's lady friend died today. We are all sad, she was good to him, they spoke every day. Ollie will be lonely after this loss. We all liked Miss Vivian.
8-31-19 Today makes 51 years of marriage to Paula y'all. We headed to BR town and the Hilton on the river, Big Muddy, great room, great view, dinner at the Gregory in the Watermark, a gift from our kids. On walk back to the room by way of the River Walk I noted the first hint of a fingernail moon setting. Yay!
9-4-19 On way in to work this morning I crossed paths with a tight flight, a knot, of crawfishermen, or Ibis, my first group of this fall.
9-5-19 Many ragged skeins of crawfishermen this morning moving south to north at sunrise.
9-6-19 As I walk by Cypress Lake our remnant prairie pothole or Platins, I note a fine alligator in the shallows next to an older, much older, sign in the same shallows that said:
"Caution
Alligator Habitat
Keeps Pets Out Of Lake
Watch Children
Do Not Feed Alligators"
Ahaaahaaaha!
From Margaret Mead: "Children must be taught how to think, not what to think."
9-8-19 Pun of the Month:
"Most people write congrats because they don't know the correct spelling for Conrajulahsions." Charles Allen
David Lee, please let us know when your new books are published.
Vic Hummert, please do the same... so we can spread the word.
Get out and enjoy this FM, I will definitely crack the cap on a great 3/20 tart red and raise a glass to you my friends.
peace love possumhugs
BT
For the rest of them here is a question from Kathleen Dean Moore in Wild Comfort, "What will the Earth lose when it loses human beings?"
From John Muir, "Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in
woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed and as beautiful as life."
8-18-19 Kathleen Babineaux Blanco died today. News said she was the first female governor for Louisiana, heck y'all she was the only one. Kathleen was governor during the Katrina and Rita days. Louisiana folks know who those girls are and do not have to ask "who?"!
Kathleen was an Iberia Parish native and she singlehandedly put Coteau on the map. Blanco was criticized for being ill -prepared for those two killer storms, for publicly crying about what had happened to her people in New Orleans. Sigh, y'all I want my public leaders to be emotional.
She was a really fine person.
My Mom and Dad loved Kathleen and were next door neighbors to she and Raymond for years. Now, their word is good enough for me.
8-24-19 WAIT Y'ALL! THE MIKIs ARE GONE! I just noticed they are not flying or calling anymore. They just left without saying goodbye OR maybe I was not paying attention well enough.
Governor Blanco's funeral was today.
There goes an empty east bound oil train. Sigh!
8-25-19 I'm hauling water out to the gurls, the coop is very hot and humid with a horrendous mosquito population. As I stand there with bucket in hand I note a very green Mosquito Hawk (those of you who are not from here always stop me now and ask "What is a MH?" and I have to explain that this is what we call Dragon Flies in South Louisiana, and for good reason. Anyway I'm standing there with the water bucket in my hand when I notice this Mosquito Hawk hovering there framed in the open door of the coup at an altitude of 30" just waiting for a slow flying blood sucker to make a move. Very cool y'all, because me and the gurls need all the help we can get.
Fall color has begun in our rectangle of the earth with that old reliable Red Buckeye "slowly shucking gold".
8-28-19 Vivian Girour, my Father-in-Law's lady friend died today. We are all sad, she was good to him, they spoke every day. Ollie will be lonely after this loss. We all liked Miss Vivian.
8-31-19 Today makes 51 years of marriage to Paula y'all. We headed to BR town and the Hilton on the river, Big Muddy, great room, great view, dinner at the Gregory in the Watermark, a gift from our kids. On walk back to the room by way of the River Walk I noted the first hint of a fingernail moon setting. Yay!
9-4-19 On way in to work this morning I crossed paths with a tight flight, a knot, of crawfishermen, or Ibis, my first group of this fall.
9-5-19 Many ragged skeins of crawfishermen this morning moving south to north at sunrise.
9-6-19 As I walk by Cypress Lake our remnant prairie pothole or Platins, I note a fine alligator in the shallows next to an older, much older, sign in the same shallows that said:
"Caution
Alligator Habitat
Keeps Pets Out Of Lake
Watch Children
Do Not Feed Alligators"
Ahaaahaaaha!
From Margaret Mead: "Children must be taught how to think, not what to think."
9-8-19 Pun of the Month:
"Most people write congrats because they don't know the correct spelling for Conrajulahsions." Charles Allen
David Lee, please let us know when your new books are published.
Vic Hummert, please do the same... so we can spread the word.
Get out and enjoy this FM, I will definitely crack the cap on a great 3/20 tart red and raise a glass to you my friends.
peace love possumhugs
BT
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