when I got off of work last night,, the moon was REAL FULL, and was BLOOD red,,, couldnt beleive how red it was. Then the color started to fade,,as it started to follow me home,,,, about half way home, it was normal color,,, but it was gaining on me. Kept gtting closer, and closer, even though I went faster and faster.

-- Stan (sopal@net-pert.com), June 25, 2002

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Oh my gosh, glad you made it home in one piece! hehe.

The moon was spectacular here as well! Not red though.

-- Patty (SycamoreHollow@aol.com), June 25, 2002.

We had too many clouds in the early evening and then around 2:30am a thunder storm so I missed it. But I did find out my newest dog is afraid of storms so I shared the bed with 3 dogs & a cat. Needless to say I didn't get too much rest. :(

-- Kathy Aldridge (beckoningwinds@yahoo.com), June 25, 2002.

Last night and the night before, we had what they call around here "a moon tide". At certain times the pull of the full moon is so strong that the tides rise and fall a good 2 ft. higher or lower than normal tides. We had a 12 to 14 ft. tide, but I'm sure that's nothing compared with the 30+ ft. tides in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick!! Right, Alison??

-- Marcia (HrMr@webtv.net), June 25, 2002.

That's interesting Marcia, what "certain" times?

-- Patty (SycamoreHollow@aol.com), June 25, 2002.

Patty...I really don't understand it that well myself :-)!! All I know is that the rotational position of the moon and the earth at the changing of the tides does affect how high or low those tides can be. Maybe this site can explain it a little better (?). Sorry, but I don't know how to do the direct link "thing"!!

Ocean Tides: The Moon Is In Control Address:http://members.tripod.com/~CovenK/

-- Marcia (HrMr@webtv.net), June 26, 2002.

Here's a hotlink for the site Marcia gave.

Ocean Tides

Click on the link for Neap Tides/Leap Tides for some good info. Basically, the moon is not a fixed distance away from the Earth. It fluctuates. When the moon is closer to Earth, the high tides are even higher.

-- Bren (wayoutfarm@skybest.com), June 26, 2002.

Well, that was weird! Let's try the link again!!

Ocean Tides

-- Bren (wayoutfarm@skybest.com), June 26, 2002.

I'll check it out, thankye ladies! Shore 'pressiate it!

How the tides affect planting, our behavior, etc. is interesting as well. Had family and friends that worked in various jobs where it was very apparent, and they dreaded working on a full moon. Like hospitals, and facilities for the retarded, or mentally ill. My ex worked for the police dept., and he would also tell stories! I always thought it made perfect sense when you think of the tides and of how much of our bodies are water content. I have wondered why it seemed "negative" behaviors were the noted ones.

-- Patty (SycamoreHollow@aol.com), June 26, 2002.

Thanks sooo much for doing that, Bren!! I really gotta learn how to do that :-)!!

-- Marcia (HrMr@webtv.net), June 26, 2002.

Marcia, it's easy. It's just a basic "formula". All of these "formulas" begin and end with tags which are "< and >" but in order to show you the formula I'm using "( and )" (otherwise I would just make a hotlink.) Take the link above- to make it you type in the following, substituting the parentheses...

(a href="http://members.tripod.com/~CovenK/")Ocean Tides(/a)

That's it! You do need the complete web address - "http://" and "www" but this is easy if you just cut and paste the address when you make the link. Does this make sense?

-- Bren (wayoutfarm@skybest.com), June 26, 2002.

bren, you have 2 sets of "()", do you substitue both for "<>"? do you have the formula memorised?

-- Stan (sopal@net-pert.com), June 29, 2002.

Yes, you substitute both sets of parentheses. These are called tags. The first set is the opening tag and the second set is the closing tag. I basically have this formula (or code) memorized but I do keep a "cheat sheet" of all the different codes I've learned next to my computer. In case anyone is wondering, the technical name of these codes is Hypertext Markup Language or HTML code.

-- Bren (wayoutfarm@skybest.com), June 29, 2002.

Ohhhhhhhh, I've been closing with just a "carrot" Not with the slash and "a". Huh, that's the way I was taught, but it must not work here, that's why my links don't close...?

-- Patty (SycamoreHollow@aol.com), June 30, 2002.

No wait! Snicker. I take that back! After I looked again at my cheat sheet, I HAVE been doing it right. I know, I'm a ditz. Wonder why the links don't close? And I still wonder what I was doing wrong posting pics!

-- Patty (SycamoreHollow@aol.com), June 30, 2002.

Nice one!!!! so fictional!!!! but funny!!! im me Quniver89(aim)

-- Liz.s. (Quniver89@aol.com), December 05, 2003.

freaks!!!!!

-- jeejeee (superjerk@cox.net), May 09, 2004.