Turtle Time Gazette: Volume 7 Issue 4 & 5

“All Time is Now” 

Greetings!

June is nearly over, finally spring arrived in time for Summer in 4 days! June 21: Summer Solstice: 1:46 a.m. EDT – Longest Day of the Year!

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Full Moon and Names:

July 7; Full Buck Moon

Eye to the Sky:

June 2009

Venus reaches its greatest elongation and appears 46 degrees to the right of the rising Sun in the predawn sky on the 5th. The planet loses nearly half its brilliance this month, fading from -4.7 to a “merely brilliant” magnitude -4.2. It sidles close to Mars as the two cross into Aries and spend the month together in the east an hour before dawn. On the 19th, the pair, Earth’s two closest neighbors, hover beneath the crescent Moon. Saturn remains nicely up until midnight. On the 23rd, Pluto reaches opposition. After angling from Serpens through Ophiuchus during the past year, it has entered Sagittarius, its new home until the year 2025. Summer begins with the solstice on the 21st, at 1:46 A.M.

July 2009

In the predawn east, Venus in Taurus is just below Mars on the 1st; the Red Planet gets higher above Venus as the month progresses. Venus hovers near the waning crescent Moon on the 19th. In the more convenient evening hours, Jupiter rises just as Saturn is about to set, at around 10:30 P.M. at midmonth. The closest Moon of the year occurs on the 21st, as does the longest solar eclipse of the century, a 6.7-minute totality that sweeps over India during its monsoon season before traversing China and entering the Pacific at Shanghai. Earth reaches aphelion, its annual position farthest from the Sun, on the 3rd.

Special thanks to the Old Farmers Almanac!

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This ’N That

Well, a lot has been happening this month! The flurry of nest building and mating is being replaced by the whirlwind of feeding and teaching the young.  I’ve not been quite as ‘aware’ of the noise coming from the wetlands, I don’t know if that is because I’ve been talking to the dogs or what.

I’ve as well started a blog at http://yogiandbellasjourney.wordpress.com  It is an online journal of  Yogi and Bella settling in with us. I hope that I can at least post once a week.

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Links:

A F*re*e flash website: http://www.wix.com

Send a photo or audio postcard for no money to your friends: http://www.postcard.fm

Use your voice, email, instant messaging, or text messaging. No other memory tool makes it as easy to capture, retrieve, and share ideas and things you need to do—anywhere, anytime. https://www.reqall.com/

A website that I believe claims to have over 5,000 pages! Truly a wonderful site to relax and have a laugh or two, or three. (IMHO) http://www.zyra.org.uk/ I love the sense of humour!

Then here is a picture that I stumbled upon while at work..it struck me so funny, I nearly had an accident.

 I think that about wraps it up for this time. Until next time, keep smilin’!

May the Creator hold you in the palm of His hand and may you float as a feather upon the breath of the Creator.