Season’s Greetings and Happy Holidays to everyone!
December 18-19 is the last Full Moon of 2021. The moon turns full on 19 December at 04:35 UTC. You can insert your own town or city into the search box HERE to find your exact time.
This Full Moon is just two days before the Solstice, which occurs on 21 December at 15:59 UTC. You can insert your own town or city into the search box HERE to find your exact time. The Solstice marks the Northern Hemisphere's shortest day (first astronomical day of winter) and the Southern Hemisphere's longest day (first astronomical day of summer).
I’m gratefully celebrating the return of the light and longer days!
AQ: I’m not forgetting you. Happy Summer Solstice to you. I very much hope the temperatures will be kinder to you and your family. A halo and a sundog over Bunsen Peak in Yellowstone National ParkNPS/Diane RenkinPhoto labeled “Public domain” (copyright free)
AQ, those girls seem like remarkable young ladies! So happy they are so keen to learn!
I guess our emergency briefings also have ASL interpreters, but I was so absorbed in trying to understand the AUSLAN!
aquilareen said:MissJ immediately began reading her book (about a girl who can talk to zoo animals). As well as a craft, a puzzle & a fiction book, I always give each a “fact” book (astronomy, nature, atlas, etc. etc). I did not have time this year to search far and grabbed a book on the Periodic Table for Miss10. Success!!! She spent the rest of the afternoon telling us facts & figures of chemical elements. Dau says she is still absorbed this morning!
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Finally finished our tree yesterday. Disappointed that it doesn't smell of fir tree: someone said that maybe that's because they spray them to stop them dropping. My OH had to fight it in from the garden through the conservatory door, where it obligingly dropped a whole lot of small spiky bits all over the steps. Of course, now we and 4 footed dog are all walking these tiny green things into the house every time we use the door. Hence my OH getting the broom out.
Lindybird; Maybe your pretty tree will smell once it's been in the house for a day or two? Have fun with the pine needles (if they do spray them, doesn't seem like it works). :-)
OG: Sounds like the worst is over?
CC/dibnlib/AQ: I find jigsaw puzzles very relaxing (not so much when little people are involved). :-)
Diane: Got a fab view of the full moon yesterday morning when I tottered out to the kitchen to get my first cup of coffee and it was shining right down on the kitchen counter. :-)
We seem to have a perfect storm of plumbing problems today: Toilet in my bathroom won't drain; the tank in the toilet in OH's bathroom won't fill all the way and the handle is wobbly, the thermostat regulator on the shower in my bathroom has gone kerpooey after weeks of being strange (but who had time to sort it out then!) and now there's water showing up in the bathtub in my bathroom. What next, I ask. Well maybe I won't ask! :-) Plumber is giving us a callback re schedule.... Oh joy.
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
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RSPB Giving Nature a Home
Lindybird said: They're in short supply here, it seems. Everyone is cursing the fact that there were not enough young people encouraged to go for plumbing or electrical careers, a few years ago: they can all name their price, now.
Plumbers, electricians, welders, and other workers are in short supply in the U.S., too. That's what happens when a society demeans and disrespects working people. The U.S. economy will suffer for this country's classism.