Beltane Full Planting Moon
Much of our garden is a couple of weeks ahead of schedule. If it doesn’t produce leggy plants that focus on leaves, that should mean increased productivity for the vegetables. Since we would not have put the honey supers on the parent colony until after the division and since division is normally done on or around May 15th, we’re a couple of weeks ahead on honey production, too. To paraphrase a canard I’ve seen a lot of late, we write the garden plans in pencil, mother nature, however, controls the eraser.
One of the chief delights of the docent program at the MIA is the number of intelligent autodidacts you get to meet. I’m sure there are other collecting points for such people, but it takes a person committed to new knowledge to start the two-year training program and its three years after obligation for tours. Since many of the people, over half I’d say, are retirement age or close to it, this signals a willingness to take on challenge at a point that many people dream of the eternal game of golf or the everlasting fishing expedition, a forever weekend of quilting bees or an eternity of television induced stupefaction.
Summer colds have a special insult, that drug down feeling contrasts sharply with the sunny weather and the pleasant temperatures. I slept poorly last night, but I got up with the dogs this am because they’re like cattle. You have to feed them and care for them no matter how you feel. A good thing, really, but it didn’t feel like it at 7:00 am.
Onto Ovid, then back to bed.
