Moon Madness
21/05/2008 12:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
izmeinaIt's a glorious crisp and crunchy day. Lazy Izzie should be outside pottering in the garden pulling up weeds and planting out proteas
Been on holidays since Monday. The new owners have gone and moved the goalposts and the Izzie don't like it. Firstly because the working week now starts on a Monday and it used to be a Wednesday so the old trick of requesting our first Wednesday back from holidays as a day off (followed by our usual Thursday and Friday off) is no longer possible.
But especially since while the week has been moved back by two days, pay day hasn't. That is still Wednesday evening.
So that means that if you pick the end of the fortnightly pay period to start you end up wasting 3 days of hols rather than one due to lack of funds
And thanks to the petty little episode of the boss dumping Izzie with those four 5-9 shifts in the one fortnight - that's left us about 8 hours short at last pay day.
That should not really be a problem as the whole point of taking hols at this time of year is to get some serious gardening and decluttering done. But also kept in mind the annual Fremantle Heritage festival on for the last week of May. Could have made do with the usual two weeks but added a third in order not to miss our fix of moonshine. Figured that like last time would get dumped with a bunch of late shifts and once again miss a fix of full moon rising
Last year was the worst on record for Izzie. Those full moon days when not at work were invariably rainy or cloudy - even January. Probably only seen one for the whole year.
This year was not much better but did catch the simply stunning Easter moon rising over the river near the city. Seriously gorgeous.
Most decadent indeed was the Izzie. Not one but two evenings at Memorial Hill in Fremantle - the best place for moon watching at this time of year.
It's got 360 degree views over the town and most importantly - several chunks of reasonably clear horizon. So it is especially good for full moon as you get two shows for the price of one.
But yet again - twice - in spite of staring right at the spot where we expected the moon to appear - and getting the location right too, did not manage to catch the critter as it came over the horizon. Instead - a vague blurry round shape slowly took form as the sun sank lower in the sky.
But still managed to watch it go from yellow to white and slowly creep up into the sky. The sunset was also most impressive on both days but is always a bit prettier with a bit of clouds to add colour
Decided that relying on the daily papers for times is too unreliable as the Izzie does not always get to read the paper. That happened yesterday. Based on Monday - figures it would be between 40 or 50 mins later than Monday's 4.30pm but probably after sunset as official full moon was around 10am on Tuesday. Turned out to be 5.13pm. Would have had a slightly better chance of spotting it quickly knowing that beforehand
So consulted the Oracle of Google last night and came up with all sorts of interesting sites
Also figured from looking last night back at the Lair that it looked rather close to the constellation of Scorpio. Maybe that's what they mean by saying that it is in a certain sign. Google confirmed that suspicion too. So now it should not be too difficult to tick off a few more constellations on that 101 list. It was good to find some websites with proper piccies of the stars and not those silly over the top silly squiggles found on astrology sites. Saggitarius looks far more like a teapot or a tent than some bloke with a bunch of arrows.
And as for cancer - how they ever got that thing to look like a crab - those ancient Greeks must have been on magic mushrooms or something
But a bit of slinking in Cyberia soon made sense of it all. This v shaped thing got called the crab not for its looks but for real estate reasons. It is at one of the points where the sun seems to turn around and start crawling backwards in the sky
Nice to know there is some logic in astrology!
Well - is time to slink off into the sunshine. There's weeds to be planted and phone calls to be made. Need to tell the local electric co that the Izzie is dumping their sneaky little 'green power' option and to book a bunch of events at the heritage festival.
Been on holidays since Monday. The new owners have gone and moved the goalposts and the Izzie don't like it. Firstly because the working week now starts on a Monday and it used to be a Wednesday so the old trick of requesting our first Wednesday back from holidays as a day off (followed by our usual Thursday and Friday off) is no longer possible.
But especially since while the week has been moved back by two days, pay day hasn't. That is still Wednesday evening.
So that means that if you pick the end of the fortnightly pay period to start you end up wasting 3 days of hols rather than one due to lack of funds
And thanks to the petty little episode of the boss dumping Izzie with those four 5-9 shifts in the one fortnight - that's left us about 8 hours short at last pay day.
That should not really be a problem as the whole point of taking hols at this time of year is to get some serious gardening and decluttering done. But also kept in mind the annual Fremantle Heritage festival on for the last week of May. Could have made do with the usual two weeks but added a third in order not to miss our fix of moonshine. Figured that like last time would get dumped with a bunch of late shifts and once again miss a fix of full moon rising
Last year was the worst on record for Izzie. Those full moon days when not at work were invariably rainy or cloudy - even January. Probably only seen one for the whole year.
This year was not much better but did catch the simply stunning Easter moon rising over the river near the city. Seriously gorgeous.
Most decadent indeed was the Izzie. Not one but two evenings at Memorial Hill in Fremantle - the best place for moon watching at this time of year.
It's got 360 degree views over the town and most importantly - several chunks of reasonably clear horizon. So it is especially good for full moon as you get two shows for the price of one.
But yet again - twice - in spite of staring right at the spot where we expected the moon to appear - and getting the location right too, did not manage to catch the critter as it came over the horizon. Instead - a vague blurry round shape slowly took form as the sun sank lower in the sky.
But still managed to watch it go from yellow to white and slowly creep up into the sky. The sunset was also most impressive on both days but is always a bit prettier with a bit of clouds to add colour
Decided that relying on the daily papers for times is too unreliable as the Izzie does not always get to read the paper. That happened yesterday. Based on Monday - figures it would be between 40 or 50 mins later than Monday's 4.30pm but probably after sunset as official full moon was around 10am on Tuesday. Turned out to be 5.13pm. Would have had a slightly better chance of spotting it quickly knowing that beforehand
So consulted the Oracle of Google last night and came up with all sorts of interesting sites
Also figured from looking last night back at the Lair that it looked rather close to the constellation of Scorpio. Maybe that's what they mean by saying that it is in a certain sign. Google confirmed that suspicion too. So now it should not be too difficult to tick off a few more constellations on that 101 list. It was good to find some websites with proper piccies of the stars and not those silly over the top silly squiggles found on astrology sites. Saggitarius looks far more like a teapot or a tent than some bloke with a bunch of arrows.
And as for cancer - how they ever got that thing to look like a crab - those ancient Greeks must have been on magic mushrooms or something
But a bit of slinking in Cyberia soon made sense of it all. This v shaped thing got called the crab not for its looks but for real estate reasons. It is at one of the points where the sun seems to turn around and start crawling backwards in the sky
Nice to know there is some logic in astrology!
Well - is time to slink off into the sunshine. There's weeds to be planted and phone calls to be made. Need to tell the local electric co that the Izzie is dumping their sneaky little 'green power' option and to book a bunch of events at the heritage festival.
