Biggest, Brightest Full Moon of 2008 tonight

I called my daughter in New Jersey and told her about the moon. She just looked out the window and gasped "Oh my God!" into the phone. So, thanks Jim.
 
I stepped outside to take a shot of the full moon...

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No camera trickery, hand-held with the small Canon with a 12x zoom. Couldn't use the pocket size, because I needed a manual setting to get 1/250@f3.5 to get the detail in the image.

Gorgeous sight - mucho bright!

Best wishes,
Jim
 
Jim --

Thanks for bringing this celestial event to our attention. I just went out to take a look. The moon in on the back side of our house and is so bright that you can see a clear and impressive shadow of the house when you look out the front door. Way cool.
 
JamesTXSD":38m5qfgy said:
Here's a link...

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... -moon.html

Sure looked bright last night. Hope you are in an area that isn't cloud covered this evening - it's supposed to be 30% brighter and 14% larger than any other full moon this year. :moon

Best wishes,
Jim B.
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Well, well.....Last night it was clear as can be and a wonderful -18 this morning at my house. It was a bright, and man it was cold getting into the truck.
 
JIm, thanks for the moon shot. I was going to go outside and look but this way I can see the face in the moon. Out side it was just a bright spot on the other side of the clouds. It did stop snowing though, (Thought you'd like to know that.)

Thanks also for now I know the reason for the highest tide of the year tonight. Should have thought about that when I heard about the high tides, and put the two together.

Harvey
SleepyC :moon
 
We were out last night in Naples bay watching the Christmas boat parade yes the full moon was amazing Great for navigating the sloughs of naples bay .water temp about 66 outdoor temp 65 not bad . Today it was about 75-80 Fl. Great this time of year Hope to see you guys in Seattle next month
 
Saw the moon on the way home from work tonight and it still looks big. Maybe it is magnified by the cold, (27-29) all day. Only got about 3 inches of snow, but Port Angels just to our west got twice as much. John Wayne marina looked pretty full at high tide.

Still would trade here for very many other places, (Well Jim (Wild Blue), we could talk about the tropical tip, though) :smiled

Looking forward to meeting you there Jim,

Harvey
SleepyC
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Jim - no plans for the SBS for us this year. We'll be watching with interest to see what the Brats have to say about the new direction of the factory.

Harvey - your part of the country is spectacularly beautiful. I can see why you live there. Alas, I don't have the tolerance for cold and lack of sunshine that many of you share. And that brings us back to one of the best features of our boats: the ability to trailer to the best places at the right times. :D

We're heading up the ICW today; the high will be around 80º (above normal for this time of year), with a "cold front" coming in this afternoon. It will be a one-day event that will give us a high of "only 58º tomorrow" (a quote from one of the local weather weasels) and then back to the 70s on Wednesday.

I enjoy hearing about how you guys in the PNW use your boats through the winter months; the cabin and Wallas make it very livable... just like the shade and open windows make it work for us.

Happy Holidays,
Jim
 
Jim, we must be opposite. I can only tolerate heat up to about 80, after that I melt into a big puddle. Long time ago I learned you can only take off so many clothes before you get arrested :lol: but I can always put on another layer. Nice thing about here, we get some blue sky almost every day :star :rainbow :hot We got snow and some freezing rain today, for a while, but also saw the sun and some sharp shadows out there. By the way, if it gets much colder and you need a jacket, I have several. Be happy to make a loan if you get into the need.

On re-reading my last post I missed a word. "Still would not trade here for very many other places,"

Harvey
SleepyC :moon
 
hardee":3r874lfa said:
Jim, we must be opposite. I can only tolerate heat up to about 80, after that I melt into a big puddle. ...

On re-reading my last post I missed a word. "Still would not trade here for very many other places,"

Harvey
SleepyC :moon
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Hi Harvey,

Yeah, we knew you left NOT out of that sentence. It's great when people are happy where they are.

At a certain low temperature, my fingers hurt and get stiff - no matter how many layers I put on. Like people who suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder, lack of sleep, or other maladies that some question, this island boy craves sunshine and warmth. We come into this world naked... I find being as close to that as Mother Nature allows is a state that keeps me content.

Yesterday was considered a chilly day in the Tropical Tip... it took most of the day for the temp to finally creep up to 70º. The local news folks were doing their chit-chat and talking about the cold. The young reporter made me laugh when he said that he had been up north and "it gets so cold there that your nose hairs freeze!" :xnaughty Made me think of an exchange with my buddy Tom. :wink:

I think I've figured out that my aversion to cold comes from my childhood in Iowa. We didn't have heat in the upstairs of the house where my bedroom was... just a register that allowed any meager heat from the downstairs to come through the floor. I remember so many blankets that I couldn't turn over! Layers were not my friend.

I appreciate the offer of the loan of a jacket. We gave away most of our winter wardrobe when we moved here. When it gets to 50º here, you see people in heavy coats, fur collar sweaters, Ugh type boots, and scarfs. We kept just enough of that winter wardrobe to survive the occasional cold spells. When we worked at Yellowstone this spring/summer, I had to go buy long underwear... it was only funny because we knew it wasn't permanent. 8)

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Warm wishes,
Jim
 
Jim,

Harvey (and Roger on Dreamer) enjoy MUCH better weather in Sequim (as does David on Anna Leigh on Guemes Island) than most of the rest of us Western Washingtonians. While most of the rest of us seem to live under a perpetual cloud stacked up against the Cascades, with annual rainfall of 40", 60" or even more, their annual rainfall is 20" or less. Eastern Washington is drier and sunnier all year round and just downright hot in the summer. But the weather in our neck of the woods is frequently just downright depressing for a good part of the year. And then, magically, we hit those patches of summer and fall weather where the sun comes out, skies are blue ("the bluest blue you've ever seen, in Seattle"), you are cruising in the San Juans or South Sound, and suddenly you forget the gray days and living here is all worth it. Of course it would be nice to be able to leave here during those dreary periods, but we all seem to adapt, Web feet, moss between our toes, rust don't tan, etc... I'm with Harvey to a point - I would not live anywhere else for about half the year!

Pat
 
JamesTXSD":2fwua194 said:
When we worked at Yellowstone this spring/summer, I had to go buy long underwear... it was only funny because we knew it wasn't permanent. 8)

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Warm wishes,
Jim
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What in the world is "temporary" long underwear?? Wait, I don't think I wanna know.... :oops:

Charlie

BTW, we have had nearly 50" of rain here in VA this year so far, about 6" over normal....Pat, 40-60" doesn't sound like that much....
 
Pat,

I get it. We've made it a point to be in your part of the country two of the past three summers. And I find myself singing that same song from "Here Come the Brides" when we're there. ;) (Thought I didn't get that bit of trivia, huh?)

There are SO many great places in this country. Some of them have wonderful weather most of the year, some 6 months, and some 6 weeks. The best part of being unencumbered with a schedule is being able to be IN those places when the weather is the best. Your time is coming... get the kid IN college (not necessarily through); as long as you send checks, he'll be fine. And you can send checks from anywhere. 8)

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Charlie,

"Temporary" pertains to the situation, not the underwear. I think the saying is, "You can take the boy out of the long johns, but you can't take the trauma of the long johns out of the boy." Or something like that.

Our average annual precip here is 28.5 inches. Unfortunately, we got most of that in one 24 hour period during Hurricane Dolly! :?

Best wishes,
Jim
 
Now if we could just win the Lottery we could have a place in the San Juans Wa. and have a place here in Naples now that would be the best of both worlds . Tom cat in one and cc-23 in the other .I would love that .

Anyway there is no perfect weather place I've lived in lot's of places in the US and Western Washington has to be one of the best I would move back . Although Florida is great this time of year it's sunny and in the 80's but Summer's (may- sep)are the worst 90-95 with same Humidity so we try to get away for a month or two . Hope to see you guys in Jan
 
An an oregon boy who spent 10 years on a boat in seattle I find myself being drawn back. It rains but it isn't the hard rains we get here in oregon. And it on average is a little warmer. My last sailboat hull was grey, the factory called it "seattle grey". Fitting.
 
Jim, I remember a house like that, but we just had cold sheets and a feather tick about a foot thick. Oh, and baths were once a week in a rubber fold-up tub. I remember the cold, and the hot..... in the summers.

Pat, you are right, we do have it a bit different here in the Blue Hole. Somebody said we get 300 days a year. Can't say that I have counted, but we do get a peek pretty often.

Marty, It was mostly white on God's green earth around the peninsula to day. And that has it's own beauty.

Love where I live, but have no opposition to travel either. I've seen about half of this country, and know the PNW pretty well. Sure would enjoy seeing 70's to 80's and boating year around.

Harvey
SleepyC :moon
 
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