Lughnasa Labor Day Moon
Kate’s home. The rental car awaits its new driver. We have to take Rigel to the vet this morning, then I’ll take off. You’ll hear from me on the road.
Asides
Lughnasa Recovery Moon
Jon’s work continues. Three more shelves are ready for books. My plan today is to fill them up and move some smaller units to a different position. Once these are full I’ll have a much better idea how many more units I’ll need. As more books get shelved, the floor begins to open up. By Labor Day I hope to have all the books at least on shelves, but not necessarily in their final locations.
Lughnasa Recovery Moon
“Trump’s base is more the people who used to have season tickets to the Roman Colosseum,” Mr. McQuaid wrote. “Not sure that they vote in great numbers, but they like blood sport.” NYT article, “Handwringing in GOP…”
Summer Healing Moon
What he said.
Beltane Closing Moon
And yet more rain. The weather alert of the month is for flash flooding. June has come on a good bit like May. It’s raining now and the forecast is for more today. This is the remnant of Hurricane Blanca which dissipated in the Gulf of California a day ago. It’s so green here.
Beltane Closing Moon
Response back from Colorado wildfire central. External fire sprinklers aren’t a good option here. Too many things can go wrong. So that means we’re down to defensible space, good roofing and fate. Well, there are plenty of us. At least whatever the Elk Creek Fire District guy recommends it will be something I can do. Learning how to use a chainsaw and ax, peavy and splitting wedge will come in handy here.
Big rain again yesterday and last night. So far the humidity and the rain feel a lot like Minnesota, though I noticed Andover hit 92 the other day. There the nights are warmer already and the days have begun to heat up, too. We remain cooler and more bearable during the day, cool enough at night.
Beltane Closing Moon
When attention defocuses and my mind heads toward default, it no longer picks up a stray red flag: What about the $%*&$NG house in Andover? This creates space for other thoughts to arise, of course, like: what about my prostate? But that’s fine because action on it is ahead and noticing it does not create anxiety, just resolve. This means I now have some free space, some room to expand my horizons. That makes me feel good.
Beltane Closing Moon
And so I was able to translate verses in Ovid, 4 of them, enough because this was one long sentence and difficult for me.
Felt good to have the concentration necessary.
Monsoon Season
Beltane Closing Moon
Clear, bright mornings with afternoon, early evening rain or thunderstorms.That’s been the pattern the last few days. A photographer I met at the Shadow Mountain Artist’s co-op in Evergreen said May was usually Monsoon season. Seems like a tropical pattern to me, but I like it whatever it is.
Right now the sun lights up a cloudy, blue sky, making the greens of the well watered ponderosas and aspens vibrant. Weather5280 says changing weather in the Pacific, especially a strengthening true El Nino, may keep us cool and wetter through the rest of the year. But, it also says, drought and dry will return, possibly in 2016.
If we stay cooler and wetter this year that should give us an opportunity to get our fire mitigation projects completed with less exposure to wildfire.
Beltane Closing Moon
Slow day. Nap. Feed dogs. Watch TV. Read. Get work done on office in house. Watch the hail come down.
Lots of thunder here at Fjellheim. Thor wandering the sky.