Full Moons & Clear Skies

The best time to enjoy a full Moon (which we officially honored last night, October 17, 2005) is by going to bed early and getting up at 4:00 a.m. on a cool, clear October 18 morning, two hours either side of traffic - the night's chase and noise, as well as the morning commute. Luky was not always tuned to this schedule. Back when he first partnered with me I think he was ready to roam the wild woods and hillsides into the wee hours and then sleep until mid-morning.

So, I credit my human influence as the motivation to change his lifestyle.

Luky and I stood on the hilltop in the dogpark and looked up into the deep clean blackness through which he sailed, fully rigged out, and we talked about his mood. Luky says the reason lupine sense is necessary to figure out what he's feeling is because the Tycho crater looks like a mouth expressing awe - which can also be seen as worry or woe. Luky's idea of what Mr. Moon really looks like in more detail is something like the picture above (he has not yet mastered graphic software so he asked me to approximate the look, though I'm clearly not very good either).

That said, I'm not going to be as acquiescent for the rest of this week - the running in the halls, all the extra tail-wagging and sniffing of grass and plants (notwithstanding a half-dozen new canines in the building) - added to Luky's demand that he be allowed to audit some nuclear physics courses at GA Tech - it's just getting to be a bit too much! The "full Moon" is officially gone for this month and it's time to get back to work.

Luky doesn't get sad. He moves on pretty quick. He's just happy when full Moons are met with clear skies.