Blue Moon

Full moon tonight. One due at the end of the month too, making it a "Blue Moon." Two full moons in one month: rare because the moon revolves around the Earth every 27 days and...oh, you know. It's rare. I guess like my entries.

Vacation.Was so much fun. My favorite picture, which is currently being withheld from me no doubt for a Father's Day enlargement, is a great shot of the Booglet, in a rare reversal of roles, making her best "funny face" while her daddy justs smiles behind her--absorbed in joy with her and her mother out on the grass flats.

Where we saw...

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shark Charcharhinus limbatus, sea turtle Caretta caretta, and lightening welk Busycon contrarium. The Booglet caught a fish, we explored Fort Crooked Tree, and did some body surfing in Shady Pines. I really need to write about the shark encounter. That was a big fish...I realized my excitement about it's size just as Calamity Jane gave my the look and the Booglet simply said, quietly, "Shark?"

Work. Is non-stop. I'm not complaining--just baffled. Where is time and what have all you bastards done with it? How does fifteen minutes here and next thing I do conquer years? My Mom just retired and I remember teaching her Plumbum in college. My neice, who I put to sleep by walking around with her on my shoulder, just graduated from college. My own little Booglet grows bigger. And yet, oddly enough, I remain 13, excited by finding a horned toad Phrynosoma wigginsi on our nature walk.

The garden is starting to come in. I'm especially proud of the blueberry production this year. At least a cup of home-grown blueberries every night for a while now...the Booglet has her hands full trying to drain the bowl I keep full of them. That's food I know is safe...it's grown in the acre kingdom.