ONCE IN A BLUE MOON

Monday is back. Another week with its promises and unknown twists and turns. This is Thanksgiving week and I am looking forward to it. The family coming. I can eat and not even pretend I am on a diet.So may this week run smooth. I will do my best to make it so.

Yesterday morning I came across a article on Yahoo that said last night was going to have a Blue Moon. Now I grew up with my Mother saying when something out of the ordinary happened, "This only happens once in a "Blue moon." Now here I was reading there is actually a Blue Moon. Hot dog bring it on. Because the article said that there was to be a Blue moon last night.

Now with great anticipation I waited all day for this extraordinary event to take place. "How?" I wondered did I live all these years without knowing there is actually a Blue Moon. I talked of it all day. Now let me assure you that The Emperor does not like when I get super enthused about anything. Because then I talk a great deal about it. Like non-stop. The Emperor does not like it when I talk about anything non-stop. Bless his heart he was bombarded all day about this blessed occurance. By the end of the afternoon I swear I saw cotton coming out his ears.

I told "I" that there was going to be a Blue Moon. And her and I would go outside and see this amazing moon. She looked at me, her ears standing straight up. Her eyes never leaving my face. I know there is times when she is totally amazed at my antics too. I fixed dinner. I did the dishes. I took my shower and dressed in my best pajama's. After all "Once in a blue Moon," only comes "Once ina blue moon." Right?

As soon as dark descended "I" and I went out. We stood side by side scanning the skies. All I saw was dark skies, tinged with a pinkish glaze. No Blue Moon hung in the skies. No Moon of any kind hung in the skies. Totally disappointed we went back inside. Over the course of the evening we made many trips out to stand gazing, searching the skies. But alas no Moon hung waiting to dazzle us with its beauty.

Finally about nine I took "I" and went out for once last trip. I looked back to the East and over the roof was the Moon. A full moon. It hung as if by invisible strings. Grey clouds drifted over it, through it. Making it look as if the Moon was traveling through the clouds. It was beautiful. "Look "I" I whispered, bending down to pick her up. She looked at the moon and then at me as if to say. "You said it was going to be Blue." Oh well "I" we can't have everything. I have to admit here that I truly expected to see a full Moon tinged with Blue. But it was beautiful anyway.

After searching the net I finally came across the answers to a Blue Moon. And the end of this rambling I will include the explanation. But now when they say "Once in a Blue Moon," I will know what in the blazes they mean. The moon was beautiful last night. "I"and I standing there. gazing at this beautiful round ball shining down on us. I waved. Just in case there is human life somewhere up there. I smiled. Maybe there was somebody up there, holding their dog, waving back at me.

I've come to my turn around point here in Blogland. I look up at the dark, early morning skies. That same Moon from last night hangs there in the vast skies of Blogland. Its not blue here either. I am amazed. Cyberspace has a moon too. I watch it as I stroll towards home. I'm singing softly. ""Blue moon of Kentucky." I wonder if Kentucky is close to Blogland. I'm not sure. But for now I'm headed home. I'm outta here.


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This article is about the astronomical phenomenon. For other uses, see Blue Moon (disambiguation).

31 December 2009 Blue Moon with partial lunar eclipseA blue moon can refer to the third full moon in a season with four full moons.[1] Most years have twelve full moons that occur approximately monthly. In addition to those twelve full lunar cycles, each solar calendar year contains roughly eleven days more than the lunar year of 12 lunations. The extra days accumulate, so every two or three years (7 times in the 19-year Metonic cycle), there is an extra full moon. Lunisolar calendars have rules about when to insert such an intercalary of embolismic ("leap") month, and what name it is given; e.g. in the Hebrew calendar the month Adar is duplicated. The term "blue moon" comes from folklore. Different traditions and conventions place the extra "blue" full moon at different times in the year.