Tag Archives: bulbs

We Inch, Slowly, Toward Spring

Spring Waxing Bee Hiving Moon Kate comes home tonight. Yeah! I miss her when she’s gone. I’ll follow our usual procedure and pick her up at the Loon Cafe, conveniently located at the end of the light rail service from … Continue reading →

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Warfarin for Mickey?

Fall Waxing Harvest Moon A day made for bulb planting, fall clean up. Kate worked out front pruning back the roses, spirea and decluttering. I got started with 24 bulbs, a kaleidoscope mix of various tulip colors. Tomorrow morning will … Continue reading →

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Weekend Delights

Fall Waxing Harvest Moon Ah, the weekend. It came just in time for me this week. Much to do and now some calm, free time in which to do it. Ray, the Andover senior who mows our yard, raked leaves … Continue reading →

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Feeling Rushed

Fall Waxing Harvest Moon With Latin on Friday and my tour day on Thursday things can get a bit rushed. I’m feeling a bit behind right now since my sententiae antiquae are not done and my translation of the reading … Continue reading →

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In and Down

Fall Waxing Harvest Moon 60 pink daffodils have a new home in the soil surrounding two cherry trees and a pear tree. These trees are the first ones visible out our kitchen window, so the blooms will cheer us up … Continue reading →

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The Garden in September

Lughnasa Waning Artemis Moon The onions, red, yellow and white, are in the storage room ready to go on the wooden racks when I have a minute. The honey, too, is on the bottom row of our shelving unit, collected … Continue reading →

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A Two-Person Garden

Lughnasa Waning Grandchildren Moon Kate and I have shifted our bedtimes and risings to 6:30. This allows us to get out to work in the garden when it’s still the cool of the day. This morning Kate continued to restore … Continue reading →

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Tulips and Daffodils, Oh My!

54 bar steady 29.77 3mph ENE dewpoint 32 Spring New Moon This is a fecund time. I spent a couple of hours today putting down pre-emergent weed prevention in the flower beds, moving some mulch completely off now, the … Continue reading →

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