Stupor Moon is more like it....

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I never saw the damn thing. Here's what I did see in the middle of last night, though:

* A downpouring thunderstorm, which woke me up sometime around 1:30 in the morning, and, along with me, Ebony,

* Ebony, who then spent the next hour banging appendages against walls and floor. Ultimately, Eleanor diagnosed it as her periodic earmite infestation; we wrangled her to a spot where Mommy treated the ears with our usual goop for that. She had some, but nothing in proportion to how she was carrying on.

* Finally, all this excitement got the older dog awake, just as everyone else was settling back down. She then moved up her usual 4:30 act to 3:15- went out, came in, and began whining. Incessantly. We finally gave her one of her Puppy Prozacs, which worked for maybe half an hour. Finally, I just got up at 4:15, headed for the kitchen (after letting Ebony, and of course Zoey, out to and in from the back yard- and Tasha, along with the rest of them, promptly shut up.



I spent the next half hour Not Feeding Them- cleaning up the kitchen from the night before, looking for Zoey after I put the cleaned grill top back outside and she chased back out again- and finally gave them their noms about 15 minutes early.

* And Tasha started whining again, about Nothing In Particular, roughly half an hour after that.

Le sigh.

I ultimately fell back asleep, thinking I got somewhere between six and seven hours between the three short sessions.

As for the Super Moon I never saw?  I've got better photographer friends with better cameras and I've now seen what they saw.
Close enough for NASA work.

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[bill_sheehan.livejournal.com]

You may think me hard-hearted, but I am looking forward to the day when the last of our pets has shuffled off this mortal coil. I love them dearly, but would like to be able to travel without spending ruinous amounts to have them boarded. I can't imagine maintaining my warm and friendly disposition for very long if some cold-nosed creature disturbed my slumber in the wee sma' hours.