FULL GARTER SNAKES A RUNNING MOON

 Full Garter Snakes A Running Moon rises Sunday and Monday as the sun sets. should be as clear as a bell down here on Gulf Rim! P and I will lift a glass to you our friends and to this moon's rising.

9-9-22 Full Covid-19 Moon is supposed to be rising around here somewhere. But we cannot seem to get a clear shot at it, so we headed to Loreauville to the East of New Iberia looking for it. I mean we rode all over and finally got a short look at her well after she cleared the trees. She is a beauty.

9-10-22 Tonight we headed North then East for a spectacular Moonrise. Practice makes perfect y'all. I got to tell you it is hard to wrangle my bride out of the house in her PJs just to see that ol moon rise, but she glad she went when she there. 

9-13-22 P reported the yard full of small hummers, I'm thinking winter hummers??? perhaps just young RTHB, shoots they are all small and we do not get that many in our yard except when they arrive and when they leave, so who knows...

Garter Snakes on the move! Appear to be moving toward winter cover in leaf-mulched areas of my yard, which is all around our home. Looking for a hunkerin-down place to spend the wet cool days of "winter" on the Gulf Rim.

9-14-22 Hummingbird watch! All I got is a grand Great Egret on the North side of my drive way...looking for what? Leopard Frogs? Been Dry y'all. Time to begin filling up Crawfish Ponds to give these guys happy hunting places. To see one of these guys standing along side of your car instead of in a ditch at a distance makes you realize just how tall they are.

And perfectly white, oh wow!

9-17-22 Refilled my HB feeders, both of them, and was rewarded with a RTHB by early afternoon. My perception is that this must signal the end of the fall migration. They seem to flow through from all over the Eastern half of North America across and down the Gulf Rim. 

9-18-22 Sorry Eddie, we didn't make it out tonight, but...

Eddie B say, again, "have you been watching that prominent Jupiter? You should be able to see what Galileo saw with his telescope, using just your binoculars. 350 mil miles close, now, at opposition compared to 600 mil miles later in year at apogee. you can see 4 moons. Moons- top right far out at 2:00, one close at 6:00 and two in-line at 8:00." We, shamed, went out again in our PJs, looked some more and we saw and believed! Thanks Eddie.

9-22-22 King's Reception, 2022 Sugar Cane Festival, Jefferson Island, Reception Center overlooking the spectacular Lake Peigneur, site of the 1980 salt mine collapse. We arrived at sunset to be absolutely mesmerized by that solar event. Party was OK, not our crowd. Glad we went.

10-1-22 Beautiful, sunny days, hummers zipping and dive bombing all over the place. They act like they do in the spring when they first arrive starving and excited to have made it over the big pond.

10-3-22 Taught my 8am class then headed to Hattiesburg to be in place to begin a TRAQ class in morning at 8am. I found a B and B near the meeting site, the historic train station. I could walk two blocks to and from and Paula had full access to the car. Didn't think about train traffic ALL NIGHT LONG, sigh. I guess if we lived there we would get used to all that...NOT! TRAQ=Tree Risk Assessment Qualification, a ISA certification that may pay off in the short run for my side work as a consulting arborist. ISA=International Society of Arboriculture. All of this bull and $3 plus a tip will get you a cuppa Joe just about anywhere, ha!

10-4-22 Class good and thorough. P visited with HS best friend and sisters.

10-5-22 Class greater, moved out into the trees for hands on. More classroom stuff. P visited with family members.

Talked to LDOT's Karl to suggest that Mr. Al may need watering with over a month of no rain. He said he would try to set up something soon.

1-6-22 Practical exam and written exam. I just don't know and will not find out for 5 weeks, sigh.

LDOT's Karl said water on its way to Mr. All today! Yay Karl!

Drove home to two pissed off cats, but they got over it soon enough. P dashed off to Pilates and I unpacked. Then we loaded back up to go to Lafey to hear Mags sing at Luna Bar. We used to go to church to hear her, now we all hang in the bars! Mimi smiled the whole time Mags sang. Mags=Maggie Rose Tauzin our granddaughter. What a voice, what a range, so pretty.

Hummers still here, not sure if these are stragglers or just the last or second to last or third to last leg of fall migration. These should have Canadian accents by now if they are the last group.

Coming and going through on way to I-10 to Mississippi I observed crawfish ponds being filled with water and that the big Swamp and the Atchafalaya and Big Muddy are all very low. The wading birds are moving more and more into the ponds, Great Egrets and the ragged flights of Ibis, all very good Bait-fish and Crawfish fishermen. 

Get out and catch that full moon action, y'all. Don't forget the children and old people, take them with you.

Peace Love Possumhugs

BT