Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for May 26, 2024

That is how the moonrise looked on Friday but I’ll admit I didn’t know it was a waning gibbous. We live and learn.

  ♪  Waning Gibbous by Endel

Janis left me laughing out loud again…

Arlo messed up again.

Is that a retreating Baboon?

Very nice artwork, Jimmy!

What about “The Wedding Song (There is a Great Waning Gibbous Up There)” by Paul Stookey?

Was there a song about waxing gibbons? It would be a real teat jerker.

Unwoman did, on the song Waxing Gibbous from the album War Stories.

my comment is regarding Janis. she missed the whole point altogether. He experienced it LIVE and personal and she could have been WITH him making a memory that would last longer than reading the pages of a book that she might be able to pick up any time. The moment will not repeat itself. Time moves forwards and you cannot return to that point in time. When Arlo is gone she will wish she had those moments when she was sitting outside with him in marvel to experience a waning Gibbous moon…never mind that someone never wrote a love song about a waning gibbous moon, not yet they haven’t <3

And here I thought Arlo was an early riser and would have already been snoozing away before the waning gibbous showed itself.

This isn’t like Janis. Lately she’s been ignoring Arlo and being bossy. What’s going on J.J.?

I relate to both of them enjoying the simple pleasures of life. Check out Roy Clark’s song ‘When a Man Becomes a Man’.

Was up in Arkansas the other night for my Grandson in the Special Olympics, moon was really red.

“A savage place! as holy and enchantedAs e’er beneath a waning moon was hauntedBy woman wailing for her demon-lover!” Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The moon may be waning but Arlo’s love for Janis is waxing.

Wayne Gibson?

Do you have a waning gibbous, ask your doctor if (fill in drug here) is right for you

I don’t think you’re going to get lucky tonight Arlo, now if it had been a Blue Moon……………..

Instead, he gets a Whining Oblivious…

I’d read it if they did!

I had a “waning gibbous,” but my urologist fixed me up.

How many people had to look THAT up?

Billie Gibbons might write a love song.

“Waning Gibbous” would be a good name for a band….

Shakespeare wrote something about this. Much ado . . . ?

Its the moon light. The Gators should be singing their love song this time of the year. That would really open his eyes.

and there back home again, but just for one day

Love sitting in the back yard at night. The bugs love it also…

Nobody every wrote a love song about parking your butt in bed with a book, either.

It is amazing just how bright the night sky can be-even with a new moon-when you are far enough away from cities that you can no longer see their light pollution on the horizon.

Maybe Arlo is a fan of the moonrise and moonset site. (Copy and paste the URL, and then remove spaces. Once there, look up a location.)

www. timeanddate. com / moon

Actually, that isn’t true. When in high school, a friend of mine and I (upon learning that there actually is something called a “waning gibbous moon”) composed the following (more or less to the tune of “When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder”):

Oh, the moon is waning gibbous! Oh, the moon is waning gibbous! Oh, the moon is waning gibbous, but my heart is full of love. For you.

How Arlo knows this, I have no clue.

Maybe not, but a few horror stories happen under a gibbous moon.

As a child I was taught new moon, waxing quarter-moon, waxing half-moon, full moon, waning half, etc.

Still haven’t, I fear, learned the “gibbous” stuff; I really should.

Maybe. But that’s been so many sonnets and songs about the moon and they may have been thinking about a Gibbous Moon…..

Arlo’s gibbous is suddenly waning.

From the look on his face, I’d guess Arlo’s gibbous is waxing.

I have a waxing problem with my gibbous. Getting old ain’t fun!

What rhymes with gibbous?

Maurice Gibb wrote love songs. Close enough???

I’m sure the mosquitoes were happy, Arlo.

I’m being followed by a moonshadow, moonshadow, moonshadow…,

i did

I greatly enjoyed the waning gibbous during my early morning run today.

I was born under a waning gibbous. My younger son and husband were both born under full moons, and the older was born under a half moon.

Maybe not a love song about waning gibbous, but Arlo can sing The Beatles “Mr. Moonlight” to his lovely Wife.

Jimmy Buffett’s “Everlasting Moon” is location appropriate.

Waning gibbons isn’t funny.

Arlo has the right idea!

gibbous comes from Latin hunchbacked or bulge. Personally, a waning (or waxing) gibbous looks to me like it’s squished a bit, not bulging or humped. Waning gibbous is when it was full, and part is shadowed or missing – betwen full and half moon. Waxing gibbous it is almost full, except for a part is missing – between half and full.

Between new and half or between half and new is crescent, waxing or waning, respectively.

Then someone should.

Honestly, guys, I thought it looked like an unborn baby, and was expecting some kind of comment about that. Glad to learn that I was way off!

Throughout the cycle, the moon will be waxing each day, or increasing how much of it you can see lit up at night, then waning, or decreasing in size until it disappears.

Waxing crescent, on the other hand…