Tony, it is good to see you posting.

Whenever I see the brilliant New Mexico moon in the sky, I remember your posts on the moon.  I do not like living here very well--hot, dry, far from "civilization".
But because of our weather and our isolation, the moon is usually clear and close.  How many times have I gone out at night and found it hanging almost
in my yard?  And twice I have seen a moon eclipse, once being a blood red moon, which is not so beautiful.  If we experience that Biblical moon of seven times the
brightness of normal, Katie-bar-the-door.  It will be living in searchlight whiteness here, with the whiteness seeping in at every crack in the curtains.

I like your "back of the napkin" figuring on Yom Terua.  That fits exceeding well.  January 21, 2009 could have been a beginning covenant day.  Yom Terua could be an end point.

Mariel