Still don't know if it's the Harvest or the Hunter's*

[flemmings]

But a very large golden moon is rising out of the trees out my back window.

Another triumph: I still have oddments from the family house in my basement, unused and unsorted since 1988. Yesterday I put one box of rusted metal this and thats- wrenches, screwdrivers, a desk lamp on a bracket- out on the front lawn, hoping someone might pick it over and remove the usables. Instead they walked off with the whole shebang. Maybe I can get rid of those three coffee tins of old nails now?

* In fact it's neither. Harvest Moon is the full moon closest to the autumn equinox, and is Oct 5 this year. Hunter's Moon is the first full moon after that one, which is in November. There's no name for an early September great big moon.

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[i_am_zan]

Yup, yup this means ... mooncakes soon! Whee!

We too got the large golden moon out last night. ^_^

It's a little like that in some places here. We don't really need to take some of the big things away (or call the council) someone's usually handy with re-using things and will take stuff away. Sometimes it's gone before you can even blink.

.. and you'd think there might be a name for it. Although hereabouts at the moment the gates of hell are open! Maybe it's the spirits moon. Ahahaha a la Miyabe Miyuki 'Apparitions'

[flemmings]

My acupuncture is down in Chinatown and I pass the big super that has the Hong Kong mooncakes: and tell myself that I really *don't* like the HK mooncakes that much- certainly not 800 calories a shot's worth.

Gomi hunters, they were called in Japan. Here, any scrap metal will go fast: guys drive round in trucks picking it up. But the city just levied a new fee to pay for them carting away sofas and the like. Which is fair enough: a lot of sofas get put out.