Samhain Waxing Moon of the Winter Solstice
Hmmm. The ablative absolute and the passive periphrastic did not get put straight into my brain. I stumbled through my lesson today, learning by mistake, a common method for me. Still, I added a few more verses of Ovid to my translated column, down to 52. Greg is a patient guy, a good teacher. I’m lucky to have found him. He played the music at the Minnetonka UU when I preached out there two Labor Days ago. We got to talking and he mentioned his Latin and Greek tutoring. I’d never had a tutor, one on one teaching and I love it.
A nap. Then a lot of organization stuff, some for the Docent Discussion group I facilitate, some for the Sierra Club’s legislative committee, some for next year’s garden.
On that last point I ordered leeks, kale, chard, cucumbers, tomatoes, cilantro, rosemary, spinach, lettuce and a Seed Saver’s Exchange calendar. They’re on the docket now because cranking up the hydroponics is a before the end of the year chore and I need to have seeds to start.
Most I’ll wait a bit on, but chard, lettuce, cilantro and rosemary I’ll start right away and grow them out in the hydroponic tubs for winter eating. Then, around the end of February I’ll get other seeds started, some earlier, some later, getting ready for the start of the growing season. Right now I’m happy it’s all under snow and out of reach, but come March, April I’ll be eager, looking forward to a new growing season.
