Full Moon Alert

                                                                  April 29, 2018 Hey y'all! My I-Phone app for moons say full moon is tomorrow, it also say we are nearly full at 99% today and that we have a fine coordinated rising and sun setting this evening (4-29-18) at 745pm or so. So get out there and enjoy this night and this moon. My dear friends this is finals week which means lots of grading, grade entry and testing, whew! This will be a short effort, sorry! 3-31-18 My birthday was a grand affair, we had fun, hmmmm 71 feels just like 70! My children Joe and Amy came with theirs, Ollie came too. Crawfish, cake, ice cream and a campfire, what is not to lik...

Today, March 31, 2018 is the next full moon. It is also the 71st birthday of someone we know and love. Yup, yup, yup Ol Poss is gittin up there! The Full Violet Moon rises just after sunset tonight, should be a grand affair, do not miss it. Ms P and I will toast you our friends and family with a glass of 3 fer $20 tart red beverage of our choosing. There was a mention of a party and campfire and Crawfish Etoufee' so I'll morin likely be there! YEEEEHAWWWW Y'ALL!!! Put me down for one more revolution around our closest star. Moonset and moonrise on April Fool's Day is going to be pretty good as well. From Margaret's blog, reflectionsontheteche.com: Quote of the day from a 4th grade writer, "Poetry takes a lot of erasing!" My bud David Lee can probably attest to that, ha ha, ha! 3-1-18 The Full Firefly Moon set grandly this morning as I rose up to face my day full on it was lovely in it's dimming. Two moons this month that makes the second a B...

This Friday's full moon rises Thursday as the sun sets. Elmore Morgan Jr. quote: "Keep your creative juices flowing and don't just look, but take the time to truly see the evening sky."  2-26-18  I rose from my slumber after a wild birthday celebration, Mimi's, not sure of the time, I looked out the window into the dark towards the "shed". Wait a light! Flashlight? Reflected headlight off glass? Someone after my 19 prize hens, the girls? A thief out to relieve me of some of my "stuff" stored in the shed? Read junk, not likely y'all! There it is again! Whew it is only a firefly. Wait it is the only the first firefly of 2018! I now have a name for this alert! I must email Charles, Dr. Allen, he tracks such events. Shoots, sadly he says that he saw his first last Friday, shucks! Charles does not like to loose, so perhaps he made that up, I know I would to win the prize, naw, Charles don't lie y'all! THE OLD WISDOM When the nig...

Full moon rises about 25 minutes after sunset this evening. If last night was any indication, it will be a grand affair. I missed the partial lunar eclipse this morning, it was lost behind my eyelids! This is a "Wolf Moon" and a Blue Moon (second in one month 1-1-18 and 1-31-18)! Moon-Set at St. Marks bright sickle used by the bent farmer of the salt marsh slowly sinks into mud flats as he shuffles home with his heavy sack of crabs              Janisse Ray              A House of Branches   speaking of great poets, David Lee says his dollar this is gonna be a beaut! Dave sent this poem, his Get Up and Be Ready Awakening Piece: Autumn Eclipse September 2015 She walks in beauty Lord Byron The lovely white silence of evening as she walks darkly through opening shadows of night, hands clasped behind her back up a game trail of...

This full moon is Jan 2, but rises majestically 15 minutes before the sun sets on New Year’s night. Leon J. Minvielle, Jr. age 100 passed from this life 12-21-17. He was a Warrior, entering WWII in ’41 right out of college as a First Lieutenant, serving 5 years in the 7th Armored Division with General Patton at the Battle of the Bulge and St. Vith. Leon loved to quote Patton as having said “with your blood and my guts we could win this damned war”. Sorry I did not know him better. I did know my Dad Jim, he was in the 422 infantry and he was captured in the Battle of the Bulge in December, 1944. It was the coldest winter in 50 years in Europe, Dad spent 5 months in Stalag 13 in central Germany until liberated by British General Montgomery. Dad froze nearly and was subjected to extreme hunger, came out 100# lighter. I’m so glad he made it! Glad I knew him. Sorry, I think I misspelled Pontchartrain in the last post, as in the lake, ohhhhh, I’m so confused, thi...