Archive for July, 2009

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Summer                 Waxing Green Corn Moon’ Former Door County dairy farmer and Woolly Mammoth Bill Schmidt passes the Dairyland baton to northern Indiana’s Fair Oaks Farm.  Why?  They produce enough milk to provide for the dairy needs of an 8 million person city.  They have 25,000 acres and 32,000 cows, milked 3 times a day on […]

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Quieter Dogs

Summer                        Waxing Green Corn Moon Kate’s plane is in the air, but 30 minutes or so late.  I’ll leave in a bit to pick her up.  It’s a long hike to the airport from here. The dogs have not been noisy today.  Daddy was home. Yesterday, via Netflix, I finished the first season of TrueBlood.  […]

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Sex and South Carolina. Again. But Different.

Summer                          Waxing Green Corn Moon “In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.” – Robert Greene Ingersoll SC man charged with having sex with horse Shows  you where politics have gone.  I immediately thought, OMG, the Governor does it again.

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Weeds. Less.

Summer                             Waxing Green Corn Moon The majority of the weeds that were in the clover now lie baking in the afternoon sun.  This hand pulling of weeds is a chore, but it has its satisfactions.   Not having to do it again for a while is the chief one.  When it comes to the garden, I […]

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Barking Dogs

Summer                     Waxing Green Corn Moon Oh, oh.  The neighbor called and said our dogs barked constantly from 3pm to 7pm.  He’s home all the time now with his m.s.  I empathize with him about barking dogs, even my own, because they drive me nuts, too.  I doubt they barked the whole time, but it did […]

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My Congressional Representative Working For the 6th District

Summer                    Waxing Green Corn Moon “We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.” – Jonathan Swift OK.  I suffered through Jesse Ventura as my governor and Rod Grams as my Senator, but what did I do oh Lord to deserve this congresswoman? Bachman blocks resolution […]

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Becoming Native To This Place

Summer                        Waxing Green Corn Moon The next meeting of the Woolly Mammoths will be here in Andover.  That means it’s theme and subject matter time.  The theme will be, Becoming Native to this Place, the title of a book by Wes Jackson of the Land Institute.  The subject matter will focus on the gardens, permaculture […]

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Dinner Straight From the Plant

Summer                        Waxing Green Corn Moon Dinner with vegetables straight from the garden is a treat and can be a surprise.  It was tonight.  We had potatoes, new potatoes, dug just before cooking.  They had a distinct flavor, a nutty earthy  tone unfamiliar from the long since harvested potatoes typical of both home and restaurant cooking.  […]

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Pictures

Summer                       Waxing Summer Moon From top to bottom: Western half of orchard + three oaks Cathedral at Seed Savers Exchange Southern half of our vegetable garden Lilies, Bees and Beans Carrots Vega the Wonder Dog Vega (right) and Rigel (left)

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We’re Baaaack!

Summer                                Waxing Green Corn Moon Some new html code somehow turned all the type on some computers black.  Why this happened is not clear, since it never showed up on this computer or friend Bill Schmidt’s.  A long time back it became clear that the last thing done before a problem occurs probably screwed things […]

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