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		<title>Rigel. Again.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lughnasa                                             New (Back to School) Moon
The partisans of summer have begun to moan its passing here in the north country.  Those of us who love the fall and the winter have only begun to savor the cooler nights, the lower humidity and the reduction in thunderstorms.  The harvest has begun, though much lies ahead.
Rigel, again.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ancientrails.com/?p=7689</link>
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		<title>Rigel and the Fallen Tree</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lughnasa                                                        New (Back to School) Moon
The DEW line here has no flaws.  The Distant Early Warning system, also called Rigel, found the tree that fell over the fence during the winds of today.  She walked on and crossed the road.  The Perlich&#8217;s brought her home not once, but twice.
No electric fence is good enough to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ancientrails.com/?p=7686</link>
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		<title>&#8220;No one burns the Quran,&#8221; read the headline in Tuesday&#8217;s L&#8217;Osservatore Romano.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lughnasa                                     New (Back to School) Moon
OK.  Here&#8217;s a head scratcher.  Some punk in Fla., probably a self-proclaimed minister, decides on National Burn a Quran day*.  Turns out this makes Muslims mad.  Well. It&#8217;s apparently not safe to just be a nut job anymore.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury was a cri de coeur  against the  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ancientrails.com/?p=7680</link>
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		<title>School Days.  Good Old Rule Days.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lughnasa                                                    New (Back to School) Moon
See you in September
Have a good time but remember
There is danger in the summer moon above
Will I see you in September
Or lose you to a summer love   The Happenings (see current pic, right, at EPCOT)
Mmmm.  Nothing says aging like current pics of yesterday&#8217;s bands.
Hi and Lois had a cartoon this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ancientrails.com/?p=7674</link>
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		<title>Bee Diary: Supplemental</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lughnasa                            Waning Artemis Moon
The varroa mite count is in and my bees had&#8211;1.  That&#8217;s one mite for the sample of some 225 bees.  I didn&#8217;t get the optimal 300, see the business about the bees not volunteering for freezing to death, but finding only 1 mite makes me feel pretty comfortable.  Wednesday I&#8217;ll check the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ancientrails.com/?p=7671</link>
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		<title>Bee Diary:  September 6th, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lughnasa                               Waning Artemis Moon
Speaking of labor unions.  The AFL-CIO or even the Wobblies and the Western Miner&#8217;s Union (Joe Hill&#8217;s crowd) have nothing on bees.  Today I took off the honey supers.  Mistake.  I should have stored them wet rather than dry.  Turns out the bees feel proprietary about the honey supers even though all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ancientrails.com/?p=7665</link>
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		<title>Neither Special Nor Unique</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lughnasa                                             Waning Artemis Moon
Our play date with the role-playing citizens of the Renaissance Fair has ended.  Kate works 9-2 today, a long day for her, all that time on her feet.
I have hive inspections and a varroa mite count.  In the hive inspections I have to find out if my hives have enough honey and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ancientrails.com/?p=7661</link>
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		<title>Play Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lughnasa                                        Waning Artemis Moon
Whew.  After 4 hours wandering around the precincts of the Renaissance Fair Kate and I threw ourselves on the bed and took a two-hour nap.  Geez.  Feels like I worked hard all day.
The Renaissance Festival has a large role playing contingent.  Some get paid to enact certain character types from a real [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ancientrails.com/?p=7656</link>
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		<title>Renaissance Fair</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lughnasa                                 Waning Artemis Moon
The Renaissance Fair.  Kate and I left home around 8:15 this morning, arriving at the Renaissance Fair ground around 9.  Traffic, at that time, was not a problem.  We wandered the grounds watching fools, knaves, long-bowmen, merchants, lords and ladies plying their wares and their trades.  The atmosphere was casual bawdy with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ancientrails.com/?p=7653</link>
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		<title>Waning Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lughnasa                     Waning Artemis Moon
The evening of a fine day is a silk garment laid on to welcome the night.  It caresses, soothes.  It wraps itself around the shoulders and extends a brief embrace as light fades and the stars come out.  It is, as my ancestors knew, a sacred time.
These days of September are the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ancientrails.com/?p=7649</link>
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