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I am joining Bleubeard and Elizabeth for this week's
T Stands For challenge found
here.
This is my summation of the past week:
Those are photos of Teddy that I took during our trip to
Lake Mohegan about a month ago. Those trees are probably bare at this point in time.
I needed a ticket into this week's T-gathering, so here is Teddy with
another magazine image, this time showing a glass of
Blue Moon beer:
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Coincidentally, this past week I learned that next Halloween (Oct 31, 2020) there will be a
Blue Moon! (Second Full Moon in the same month.) I need to start planning some extraordinary artwork for that occasion. A Full Moon only falls on the same day every 19 years or so. So the next Halloween Full Moon won't be until 2039.
Finding out about the
2020 Halloween Blue Moon also led me to discover that the US Navy site I rely on for accurate sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, etc. data is down for modernization, and won't be back up until April 2020.
Data Services — Naval Oceanography Portal I also rely on them for my simulated moon phase image on my blog, which I hadn't noticed wasn't updating since October 24, 2019.
Teddy said to tell everyone he appreciated the comments of concern about him needing a winter coat now that it got cold here. However, when I caught him using my computer, holding my credit card in his paw, while looking at coats on store websites, he quickly scurried away without explanation.
The weather was so unseasonably cold that NOAA described it as colder than the average temperatures for January. It moderated a little, dipped again for the weekend, then rose a little bit. I hope it's not a sign of a bitterly cold winter to come.
For the book lovers out there, I just heard about this link, which I added to my blog:
Metropolitan Museum of Art - Books with Full-Text Online.
I got that direct link from this site, which has many links on it, but it also has ads:
Open Culture - free cultural & educational media on the web.
I cleaned up and reorganized my blog a little. I now list the movies by genre, but most of my movie links are Crime / Mystery / Film-Noir.
For anyone old enough to remember Kolchak: The Night Stalker, NBC has all of the episodes
here. (I don't now how long they'll be available. I made a blog post with a link for each episode, like I've done for other shows:
Kolchak: The Night Stalker Episodes)
This past week the
Symantec Norton anti-virus bug reared it's ugly head again on my new Windows 10 computer. Apparently their software bug has existed for awhile, but Symantec can't be bothered to fix it, according to comments I read
here. I've heard Windows Defender is better than it used to be, so I need to research that, to see if I can use that instead of Norton, which I won't be renewing if they don't fix
their bug.
This
Handsome Fellow is my beloved cat. (See that blog post link for photos I took of him this week.)
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I took more cemetery photos:
Gravestones at Dusk,
Sanford Cemetery Gravestones,
Skull and Cross Bones Gravestones,
Cemetery Gates and Gravestones.
I took a short hike on a
Trail In Woods.
I saw the
Full Moon.
Most of the boats have been removed from the water for the season:
Harbor Reflections.
I made some postcards:
The Moon - Blue Frosty Night,
Fortune Teller Games,
Winter Asian Water Cranes,
Midnight Masquerade,
Medieval Dragon Queen,
Charlie Chaplin,
Medieval Organ Music.
I've also been working on a small project that involves two maps: one is an art piece and one is a real map. But the two are related to each other. I had hoped to have them finished before this T-Post, so I could share them, but they're both still works in progress. I'll give a little teaser hint about them: they involve hic sunt manes and hic sunt dracones. And if I have my druthers, one will be my destination for the
2020 Halloween Blue Moon, although it might be a little cold there that night!
This was a bye week for movie watching, akin to the US football term.
