Last Week of March - Full Moon!

Full Worm Moon – March Temperature fluctuations have been crazy wild the last couple weeks, the hard ground gave Skip an abscess, which I turned to the internet to treat, peepers are singing in the creek at the bottom of the pasture (sounds like Hollywood's alien spaceship!) and the birds are chirping and staking out their nesting territories. Flocking Bluebirds and Robins are all over the place. The boys have stayed in more nights in a row than during the entire winter, combined.

Northern tribes knew this Moon as the Full Crow Moon, when the cawing of crows signaled the end of winter; or the Full Crust Moon, because the snow cover becomes crusted from thawing by day and freezing at night. I know we could call it this for this week, the little bit of snow that didn't melt outright has a hard crust on it today.

The Full Sap Moon, marking the time of tapping maple trees, is another variation. To the settlers, it was also known as the Lenten Moon, and was considered to be the last full Moon of winter. Hard to believe that Easter is Sunday - it just doesn't feel like Spring. The clouds departed late last night, enough to expose the big Moon overhead.