Some people say the sky is just the sky

[mbrubeck]

Eleanor enjoys seeing the moon (a rare treat for a girl in cloudy Seattle, with an early bedtime to boot), so when I glimpsed a third-quarter moon through the skylight last night, I pointed it out to her, then pointed our telescope through the skylight for

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[cfox]

I was thrilled when I taught Denton to say "waxing gibbous moon" because repeating a phrase has never been common with him. There was a phase when I had to look up the moon rise and set times and memorize them, because he would demand to know where the moon is, and be upset if I couldn't tell him.

Recently, George chanted "moon" for a full half mile, since it appeared between buildings every time we passed one.