8/11/2013 Lughnasa Honey Moon
I read the following paragraph in the Updraft Blog and wondered if we could just maintain this distinction, please?
What about 2013?
Sitting in chilly Minnesota this year, you might think 2013 is running cooler than average globally. You’d be mistaken. Through June, 2013 is running as the 7th warmest year globally. Most of the planet is running warm. The coolest region on Earth this year? Minnesota and the Upper Midwest into southern Canada.
Lughnasa New (State Fair) Moon
In to St. Paul to see Ruth Hayden, a financial advisor. Then Kate’s haircut. I’ll spend the haircut time reading Rousseau at a nearby Caribou.
Lughnasa New (State Fair) Moon
Mix of things today. Moving cut tree limbs and mulching harvested beds. Working on Missing. Reading. Working on Rousseau’s essay on Inequality. Watching Orange is the New Black with Kate. A Sunday.
Summer Moon of the First Harvests
At 4:45 pm today I finished the third revision of Missing. It is 109,000 words long and is broken into 3 books. The work I have to do before I give it to Kate will take a bit of time, but certainly less than a week. Whew. Feels, marvelous. Light. Freeing.
Summer Moon of the First Harvests
Brother Mark says Dallas has begun to grow on him. He’s there after the Ellis family reunion in Mineola. He flew the flag for our generation of Ellises as the only Ellis male and the only person still named Ellis. Charyn Ellis, now Baker, hosted the event.
Summer Moon of the First Harvests
Most of the day on Missing. As I near the end of this revision, the stakes get higher for the story. I’ve cut out a lot at the end, a whole story line in order to make Missing focus on, well, missing. I had what I considered some exciting stuff near the end, sort of a teaser for Loki’s Children, but that’s gone. Now the satisfaction with Missing stands or falls on its primary narrative, a missing boy and the search for him.
Summer Moon of the First Harvests
Did brix readings for onions, beets and cherries using friend Bill Schmidt’s refractometer. Beets average plus. Onions good. Cherries good plus. Work to do, but starting in a reasonable place. Will continue as the harvest goes one.
Summer Moon of the First Harvests
All the soil in the orchard is now covered with landscape cloth and mulch. It will be much easier to maintain weed control. That had become a real problem, partly due to the bees. I plan to move them somewhere over the winter. Not sure quite where yet.
60% of revision 3 completed. Sometimes it’s a slog; sometimes it’s back in the original narrative flow, or, rather, the original narrative flow as reimagined. But in any case progress.
Summer New (First Harvest) Moon
Sprayed the leaves on the vegetative group. Got out around 7 am since this is supposed to be done early, between 4 and 8 am. 4 am? I’m going to work this program for the next few years, see if I can build in fertile, sustainable soil chemistry and achieve higher yields of more nutrient dense foods.
More outdoor work to do yet today. Going back outside right now since it’s still cool