Beltane Waxing Flower Moon As is the case with all Celtic holidays Beltane began at sundown. Over the years that I have kept the Celtic calendar, now 14 years at least, Beltane signals a real shift from the getting going of spring to the active growth of summer. Some years that’s more obvious than others […]
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Baby Plants, Nuclear Energy, and Influenza A(H1N1)
Spring Waxing Flower Moon All my baby plants have moved from the nursery into big plant pots. Now we have to wait until May 15, the average last frost date here, and all these babies can go outside into the garden. The Minnesota House refused to repeal the moratorium on the construction of new nuclear […]
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Spring Waxing Flower Moon Rain. We had a red alert, a fire danger warning over the weekend, but now we’re soggy. Soggy is better. Kate came home with information from the Minnesota Department of Health on how to handle potential swine flu patients. We’ve had no cases here yet, but the protocols for patients with […]
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Spring Waxing Flower Moon Shifting my workout to the AM. The whole routine has gotten stale and needs shaking up. Maybe when it gets a bit warmer I’ll take the aerobics outside. I used to workokout outside all the time, even in the coldest part of winter, then on snowshoes. Now I’m on the treadmill. […]
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Spring Waxing Flower Moon Business meeting this morning. We decided to go ahead with a vegetable garden renovation planned by Ecological Gardens and to get the deck in on which we will build the playhouse for the grandkids. That work will start soon. Exciting. The bees spend these first days filling up cells with brood […]
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Spring Waxing Flower Moon Went on a mission today. That’s Kate and mine’s language for a frustrating shopping experience focused on finding a particular thing. Today I wanted inoculant for the peas and other legumes we’ll plant. This inoculant, actually live bacteria, enables the peas to turn nitrogen back to the soil. I mentioned it […]
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Spring Waxing Flower Moon Our bees came here from California so I hope they don’t suffer too much climate shock as the temperatures fall this week. Lows will hit 35 or so midweek. Right now, in fact, the temperature is only 42 at 10 a.m. I grilled a turkey tenderloin last night on our inside […]
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Spring New Moon (Flower) The bees have come. Mark Nordeen drove over today with our first packet of bees. This is a picture of a bee package off the web. The circle at the top contains a can of nutrient syrup for the bees while in transit. The can comes out and the bees pour […]
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Spring New Moon (Flower) Lost sleep night before last, got up early yesterday and had a long day at the museum. I still feel loggy, not quite focused this morning. This kind of dulled down makes everything just a bit more difficult like walking and thinking through a bog. I’m nearing the end of Dreiser’s […]
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