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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: October 19th

October 18, 2025 JanF 55

Welcome to The Moose Pond! The Welcomings posts give the Moose, old and new, a place to visit and share words about the weather, life, the world at large and the small parts of Moosylvania […]

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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: October 12th

October 11, 2025 JanF 57

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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: October 5th

October 4, 2025 JanF 71

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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: September 28th

September 27, 2025 JanF 57

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Entering the Quiet Time as We Leaf the Light Behind

September 22, 2025 JanF 3

An equinox occurs twice a year, when the tilt of the Earth’s axis is inclined neither away from nor towards the Sun, the Sun being vertically above a point on the Equator. The latitudes +L […]

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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: September 21st

September 20, 2025 JanF 68

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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: September 14th

September 13, 2025 JanF 61

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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: September 7th

September 6, 2025 JanF 61

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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: August 31st

August 30, 2025 JanF 57

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Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: August 24th

August 23, 2025 JanF 55

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Entering the Quiet Time as We Leaf the Light Behind

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September 22, 2025 3
An equinox occurs twice a year, when the tilt of the Earth’s axis is inclined neither away from nor towards the Sun, the Sun being vertically above a point on the Equator. The latitudes +L [...]

“Give Thanks for the Blessings”

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August 1, 2025 3
Happy Lammas!! Hey, wait just a minute! Those are happy llamas … which is not the same thing at all! Today is August 1st, the pagan holiday of Lammas or First Harvest. It is the [...]
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Summer Sunning!

June 20, 2025 3
Later today, we mark the Summer Solstice. Astronomically, it looks like this: The Summer Solstice occurs exactly when the Earth’s axial tilt is most inclined towards the sun at its maximum of 23° 26′. The [...]
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April Showers are Bringing May Flowers!

May 1, 2025 3
At Winter Solstice, the light begins to return – gradually, the memory of the long nights fades until the light and dark are equal on Spring Equinox. From that point on,  the light returns more [...]
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Springing into Spring – No Kidding!

March 19, 2025 5
Tomorrow, March 20th, at 2:01am Mountain Standard Time (my time!), the Spring Equinox will occur. An equinox occurs twice a year (around 20 March and 22 September), when the tilt of the Earth’s axis is [...]

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