Fall Waxing Blood Moon “There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.” – Christopher Morley It’s not the only success, but it’s sure right up there with love and family. Self-direction has always been at or […]
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Fall Clean-up
Fall Waxing Blood Moon Out in the garden this morning taking down plants that have finished their labors. Large cruciform vegetable plants grew from the seeds I started inside, but they never developed any fruits. They’re in the compost now. All the tomato vines save one have come down. The last tomato harvest went inside […]
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Fall Waxing Blood Moon The run of electric fence alongside the east side of our woods. The fence installation. Squash now in our storage room The garden dies back.
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Fall Waxing Blood Moon Kate made pasta sauce(s) from our tomatoes. She also made an eggplant (ours) parmesan that we had with one of her sauces along with a toss salad of our tomatoes, basil and mozzarella. Pretty tasty. Kate has preserved, conserved, cooked and sewed on her two days off. In this environment where […]
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Fall Waxing Blood Moon Oh my. With 2 seconds left on the game clock, Favre hits Ray Lewis in the end zone for a touch-down. That put the Vikes ahead by 2. The point after made it 3. They’re now 3-0, but it was a good game. Not sure what it says about the quality […]
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Fall Waxing Blood Moon The Vikings have not looked great against the 49ers, but they did get started in the first half this time. A blocked field goal in the closing minutes of the half gave the 49ers the lead. We’ll get’em in the second half.
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Fall Waxing Blood Moon More putzy stuff this morning. Lug the 280 pounds of salt down stairs and put it in the water softener. Wire up the fencing around the compost bin built from straw bales and create a make-shift gate. Reset the irrigation clock. Then the 49ers hit the MetroDome. My sense is that […]
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Fall Waxing Blood Moon Walked the fence today, checking for limbs, plants I’d missed. Sure enough, about a third of the way around a large fallen tree branch pressed against the chain link shorting the fence and creating a hissing, popping sound when nudged. The air smelt of burnt plastic fibers. A visit with the […]
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Fall Waxing Blood Moon Tomato picking and compost bin rebuilding, the bulk of the morning. To keep our young pups from celebrating life by knocking down the straw bales out of which I designed this compost bin a wire fence now encircles the bales, with an other, shorter wire fencing material for a gate. The […]
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Doubt
Fall Waxing Blood Moon Got this comment on my post: Blood Moon Risin Gently put, nicely said. Doubt isn’t it’s own reward but I think it’s an honest place to be. As you quote Rilke at the outset – the first stanza of his famous, profound and beautiful “Fall Day” – I’ll offer another Rilke […]
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