Imbolc Waxing Bridgit Moon Some days. You know. This was one. I got the printer cable. Spent another 2+ hours fiddling with the printer. Nothing positive. Still. I know it’s a breed fault, but I do prefer to be competent. At everything I do. Every time. Not perfectionism. It’s competencism. Things don’t have to be […]
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Lughnasa New (Back to School) Moon The DEW line here has no flaws. The Distant Early Warning system, also called Rigel, found the tree that fell over the fence during the winds of today. She walked on and crossed the road. The Perlich’s brought her home not once, but twice. No electric fence is good […]
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Lughnasa Waxing Artemis Moon Yet one more day of running in place, a bit unfocused though things are moving. The thing I got myself into seems about to work itself out. How about that. The honey extractor is stuck in bureaucracy land at Dadant. They have no record of my order. Maybe not but they […]
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Summer Waxing Grandchildren Moon Adding a new computer to what step-son Jon calls my command center. This is a Gateway, my second, that I bought a couple of months ago, but waited to install until I could afford a new monitor for it. That came during the grandkids stay so I decided to set the […]
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Summer Waxing Summer Moon This morning the temperature has fallen back to 65. Good garden weather for moving mulch and repairing netaphim. Electronic gremlins have given me fits for weeks now. Not strong fits, but sure annoying. A while ago my computer refused to recognize my disk drives. On a day to day basis this […]
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Beltane Waxing Dyan Moon Lingering, an interesting article from the blog N+1, asks the question, is life richer with the internet? The author answers in a mild positive, noting that the web satisfies curiosity and provides a platform for otherwise missing voices, but he also bemoans its time wasting nature, the fact that there is […]
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-3 bar rises 30.00 SW0 windchill -3 Winter Waxing Crescent of the Wolf Moon The Orchard in Winter 2009 has well and truly begun. The new year crept in on snow shoes, covered in a snowmobile suit and holding a cup of hot cocoa. This was a Minnesota new year. We’ve had a cold winter […]
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58 bar falls 29.74 10mph E dew-point 56 Beltane, cloudy and raining First Quarter of the Flower Moon Since this has been and will be a traveling month, I’ve been attentive to weather nation-wide. It’s amazing to sit here looking outside at my garden where the vegetables are slow to mature because of cool […]
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Tech Savvy Milbank
Imbolc Waning Bridgit Moon Blue Cloud Abbey Since I plan to spend most of my time writing, I brought one of my split keyboards which make typing much easier for me. Only thing. It had an old fashioned pin style plug-in. I have a USB exclusive laptop along. Sigh. Got on the web and discovered […]
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