Full Moon - Forever tied to The Ike

Full moon this week reminded me it's been two months since Ike. I'm sure it will always remind me of electricty-free Ike days when I see one. And it still makes me walk thru the house turning off lights.

Other post-Ike notes:

• It brought hummingbirds to my courtyard for the first time in years.
• It drove four-and-twenty doves from my palm - who won't be back since mockingbirds bought it.
• All the squirrels in my yard are adolescents (and all that entails). Asta is beside herself.
  
• Halloween morning four men walked down my street with chainsaws. Would have called 911 pre-Ike.
• Heavy trash trucks still crawl thru 3x a week. Trees are still falling.
• All frozen foods in Houston are new. Not a single package has a solid clump on one end or another yet.
• While bored witless recharging my phone in the car one day, I got the Bob Dylan CD unstuck from the player and it's good.
• While bored witless listening to talk radio, I cleaned every crevice of my ole jambox and it looks brand new.
• It was the 3rd store that finally had Asta's required Pedigree canned food. It was recalled the morning Ike hit and I had no way of knowing!
• My handwriting is legible again, almost engineering level form. Ike (in my neighborhood) is worth that alone!
• Still miss leaf confetti. Ike's winds tore leaves into little 1/2" pieces that covered the windows like mosaics some mad hippie created during the night. After things dried, twice a day the wind would pick up and they blew off the roof onto my courtyard like confetti. This lasted three days but one last confetti a week later delighted me once again.
  

Another thing I love about full moons. Little rocks always show up in the garden. Christy noticed when she used to work in my garden and asked me once where they came from. They're too random to be tossed by neighbors so I was sure they work themselves up from the soil.

What I noticed after that is there are more of them the day before and through the full moon. Don't call me crazy until you're intimately familiar with your soil. I've watched it for years and sometimes break up the soil a week before so they're more visible; but they'll come up thru hard soil as well.