Full Moon, Full Sun

It has been a picture-perfect week, so-to-speak, in terms of weather. If we could choose this type of weather for the entire year, it would be "okay" with us.

And at night, for the last three or 4 nights -- a beautiful full moon. The moon shines through our roof window in the bedroom and gives quite a glow, creating lighted shapes and making it seem as though someone is shining a large-beam flashlight through the window.

"Hunter's Moon" must be named for the ability to enhance lighting while hunting at night, I suppose.

Whatever the reason, we see the moon in the early evening east of our house and then it crosses the sky and shows brightly just at dawn in the west -- amazing.

When we worked -- we could always sense when there was a full moon without having to check the skies. I'm sure that has not changed, but you have to wonder "why?".

Today is "day 300" in the year -- just 59 days until Christmas. Of course, we know Christmas is near because several stores have Christmas displays already up even though it is not Halloween.

Last night we watched game three of the World Series -- or should I say -- part of it.

We retired to bed in the 14th inning when the game tied at 2-2 seemed like it might go on for a while.

It did go on -- to the 18th inning when thankfully the Dodgers had a walk-off home run by Max Muncy to give the Dodgers their first win in the series.

For the people in Boston, the game went to about 3:30 am -- I wonder how big of an audience there stuck it out.

The game is the longest running World Series game ever and several other records were broken as well.

Our local paper delivered this morning also did not print the score as they went to press before the game was done. Fortunately for us, since we record the games and several shows that follow the game, we were able to watch the final inning and the big home run -- nice.

I am rooting for the Dodgers, but the Red Sox are a very impressive team. Apparently, the first time that these two clubs met it was 102 years ago and the pitcher for Boston was none other than Babe Ruth and the pitcher for the "Dodgers" was Casey Stangel -- wow!

So, I didn't get a lot of searches done on the family tree -- but did manage to spot the photo to the left.

Amanda Hiles, Rose Queen at the University of Texas in Tyler.

While I do see a lot more "Hiles'" in the news these days -- not all do I claim as being "family".

In this case, I'll do some research and see if I can make sure that she IS in our tree . . . somewhere.

Growing up, as I have said before, I just never heard of very many folks named Hiles in the news or anywhere for that matter.

 We did make progress on our puzzle du jour as seen to the right.

It consists of 99 smaller images of attractions from around the globe. All very fascinating and a surprising number that at least one of us has seen or visited.

The difficulty comes into play with the number of skies and the related hues of blue. Probably 70% of the pictures have sky in them so that is part of the challenge.

The other challenge comes from the appearance of the white framing lines throughout -- but we are probably going to finish today or tomorrow -- just in time for when the new puzzle arrives on Monday . . .

 
So, on our nightstand, is the book to the left. Sally Field, "In Pieces" and so far a very interesting book.

Part of the reason that it is so interesting (besides the fact that we sure do like her) is the fact that she grew up in California and specifically Pasadena in her early years.

I too lived in Pasadena, but several years after she did. But Sally mentions many places in and around Pasadena that I am familiar with -- including, PCC (where I went to school for a couple of years), Huntington Memorial Hospital (where I was an orderly for a while) and living two blocks from Santa Anita Racetrack in Arcadia (as I did as well).

There is even mention of Altadena and events there and I worked in Altadena too. So I find the book familiar from that standpoint. We are just in the beginning so look forward to getting to know more about Sally.

Lastly:

It should be obvious to all that -- no one in this house won the biggest lotto ever last week, Mega Millions, with one winner taking the $1.6 billion dollars big prize -- one person -- joining the ranks of the world's very rich.

And it may not come out publicly as who that person in South Carolina is because South Carolina allows winners to remain anonymous -- but it probably will be known around "those parts".

Apparently, the winner tried going to work normally the next day -- but quickly gave that up . . . who wouldn't?

So -- tonight though there is another chance at maybe winning "chump change" as a newscaster referred to it because it was only $750 million instead of over a $Billion -- we are going to make a trip to the dispenser of lotto tickets and "take a chance" . . .

That is a bit of our week, see you all "in a few"! 👫