Grounded. At last.
Spring Planting Moon Yes! Planted … Continue reading
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Workin’
Beltane Beltane Moon Flagged off … Continue reading
Posted in Garden, Latin, Translating Metamorphoses
Tagged asparagus, beets, bleeding heart, daffodils, ferns, garlic, Gertie, hosta, onion, pacyhysandra, shallot, strawberries, tulips
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Bee Diary: August, 2011
Lughnasa Waning Honey Extraction Moon Checked the honey supers this morning. On the two package colonies that I do not intend to overwinter, we have approximately four full honey supers. That is, we have for harvest the amount of honey … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Bees, Garden, Great Work
Tagged beans, beets, chard, honey, honey supers, leeks, potato, tomato
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Bee and Garden Diary
Mid-Summer Waning Garlic Moon Today I performed partial hive box reversals in all three colonies. The second hive box of three gets rotated to the bottom and the first or bottom box rotates up to take its place. This means … Continue reading
Posted in Bees, Garden
Tagged apples, beets, carrots, leeks, lettuce, onions, potatoes, raspberries, reversals, spinach, strawberries, sugar snap peas, tomatoes
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Week’s End
Spring Waxing Bee Hiving Moon Kate and Annie (her sister) are off to Omaha, Kansas City and various quilt shops in between. When asked what they do on the bus (she’s done this before), she said, “Talk.” Me, “No singing, … Continue reading
Garden Diary: April 10, 2011
Spring Waxing Bee Hiving Moon The outside gardening season has begun. Kate and I worked in the vegetable garden together this morning. She (I’m in destructo mode) cleaned out beds, cut down raspberry canes, weeded and pruned. I worked more … Continue reading
Planting and Reaping
Fall Waning Harvest Moon The last forty bulbs, a monet tulip collection, have gone in the ground. I planted a couple of hundred daffodil and tulips at various spots in the orchard, which we see from the table while eating … Continue reading
Posted in Art and Culture, Garden
Tagged beets, butternut squash, carrots, leeks, Monet, onions, tulips
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Rusty Latin
Fall Waning Harvest Moon Back into the Latin this morning with my tutor, Greg. Boy, I got rusty in just two months off. This language stuff requires constant attention. When I went through college and sem, I took courses that … Continue reading
Harvest
Fall New (Harvest) Moon Second round of apiguard in the parent and the divide. The top box on the package colony has gotten heavier, but I plan to feed them some more as I will do to the parent once … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Bees, Family, Friends, Great Wheel, Memories, Travel
Tagged Apiguard, beans, beets, butternut squash, carrots, corn, divide, harvest, onions, package, parent, swiss chard
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Grounded
Lughnasa Waxing Back to School Moon Finished digging the potatoes. The crop seems smaller than last year’s, but I can’t tell for sure. Still, we don’t eat potatoes often and we have enough to last us quite awhile. Kate made … Continue reading
Posted in Bees, Commentary on Religion, Cooking, Faith and Spirituality, Family, Garden, Sport
Tagged Adrian Peterson, beets, bible, biblical criticism, carrots, Christianity, Favre, leeks, ministry, potatoes, shims, squash, Vikings
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