Yessir. That's true. I have been doing a lot of Moon appreciation this week. I think this month it's called the buck moon. It came up yellow yesterday. I remember walking a dog at 1:30 this a.m. and thinking to myself how the full moon played into military history.

I'll trade you some of our Colorado Sunshine for some of your Idaho Precipitation! ;-) It was 78 on the "warm" side of my yard yesterday--70 on the "cool" side! (I have one thermometer in the shade on the sun side, and one next to the house on the shade side!) And it only went down to 37 last nite! The problem down here would have been keeping it cool enough rather than keeping it warm enough! I'm still having a problem wrapping my head around this "winter" that will be ending in a few hours! Isn't a lot of the stuff you start the kind of things that can take pretty cold temps overnite, Digit? Onions certainly can, and don't you usually start snaps and lettuce and stuff like that? If it's hardened off, I wouldn't worry about stuff like that getting down to a little below freezing. That might make enough room in the house for the stuff that really does need the warm! Maybe I just don't remember exactly what ALL you start---since you DO start a LOT!!! I'm always blown away when you start posting about all the stuff you're starting---and how much you have over sumer! I always kinda go: He's not REALLY old! He's just funnin' us! As soon as you figure out how to ship some of that water down here, I'll pack up and ship some of our sunshine (and DRY heat) up your way! ;-) Skybird

Funny, I hadn't read about its brightness, but, it caught my eye last night so I ran out to try to catch a little of it. However, like Murraysmom, it was in the teens so I tried a braced shot rather than setting up a tripod. Nigh pic. Bad idea of course, But, with the thin wispy winter clouds rolling past the knarled branches of a couple of locust trees I shot it through, it made for a kind of eerie pic anyway. Of course, when I downloaded it this morning I really regretted not getting the tripod. From Eddy the snow beagle

We've got a city water 'key'...tool to turn the water off at the street. Helps to have had a BIL who worked for the water department. The last two houses we've had, have had iffy house shut offs at the house. One was obscured by new heat pump duct work and insulation in the basement. This house has one right outside the kitchen that is easy to get to but I don't quite trust it to shut off all the way and DH or my plumber can just go over the hill in back to the street below and turn off the water at the meter. Yes, the moon is beautiful tonight. I had thought fog might cramp our viewing but its clear and shining brightly.