Spring Waxing Flower Moon The drought took a hit last night and this morning. We had almost an inch of rain and it all fell right in the window when I needed to hive my bees. Wouldn’t you know? Today had a bit of the comic routine to it. I got up this morning ready […]
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Whew.
Spring Waxing Flower Moon Whew. First quiet moments since 5:45 am. Kate and I got up, ate breakfast and headed out for the Northstar station. The plan: put Kate on the Northstar and I return home to get ready for my tours. However. Those of us in our golden years have something we take with […]
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Spring Waxing Flower Moon Kate’s off for Denver, excited as a small girl at Christmas. Seeing her grandkids makes this lady levitate. Even her dinged up right hip seems a bit better this morning, partly from anticipation and partly from the steroid injection she had on Tuesday. (Pic: Leadville, Co Halloween 2009) It will be […]
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Spring Waxing Flower Moon Out to Edina for a ten minute stint in a dental chair then back home. Round trip: 2 hours. Nap. Supper. Into St. Paul for Sheepshead. The cards weren’t bad for me tonight; but they weren’t great, except for that one really good hand. I think I came out ahead though […]
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Spring Waxing Flower Moon As the moon makes its circuit from its crescent form in the west to its fullness in the east, it passes over the skylight in our living room, at about half full. It was there tonight, shining and visible to me as I sat in my chair. To get my sunglasses […]
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Spring Waxing Flower Moon Parts of my website have disappeared over the last couple of weeks or so. All of the liberal faith parent page got eaten by cyber demons, some I may have called myself. The handy moon widget I had right next to the latest blog entry also went missing. I have been […]
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Spring Waxing Flower Moon VO2. I’m not even sure I know what it means though I do recall that bicycle racers have an abnormally good rate. Still, on Monday next, I’ll know for sure that I’m not a bicycle racer. But, I may know a bit more about my exercise physiology and what kind of […]
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Spring Waxing Flower Moon The Woollies met last night at Stratford Wood where Bill and Regina live. The topic of the evening was friendship, requiring time one said, trust another, play yet another. We evoked our history as a group of men who have given each other time, trust and vulnerability. We talked about the […]
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Spring Waxing Flower Moon A bruising middle finger, swollen passes the inflammation onto the top of the hand. It itches. This aspect of bee-keeping has its annoying moments. Like using same finger to hit the i with regularity, or the comma both assigned to this one on the right hand. This will, however, pass. Kate […]
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Spring Waxing Flower Moon The crescent flower moon slung itself just beneath the tree to the west, over Round Lake. A thin cloud passed across it, perhaps a cloud like the one Muhammad rode through on his way to Jerusalem and the Holy Mount. These crescent moons have South Carolina and the Arab world in […]
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