Beltane Waxing Last Frost Moon Woke up this morning feeling the week past. Intellectually and physically tired. Gonna take a day off to play, sleep. Maybe go to the Walker, which I haven’t visited in far too long. We have a large truck gate in the front section of our 6 foot high chain link […]
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Lughnasa New (Back to School) Moon The partisans of summer have begun to moan its passing here in the north country. Those of us who love the fall and the winter have only begun to savor the cooler nights, the lower humidity and the reduction in thunderstorms. The harvest has begun, though much lies ahead. […]
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Spring Flowering Moon The netaphim ruined last year by dogs Rigel and Vega has repairs. The repairs sit safely inside fences that Rigel has shown either no interest or no capability to penetrate. They should last. The bees will wait until a less breezy tomorrow. Wind blows the smoke around and I have to perform […]
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Fall Waxing Dark Moon Dan the fence guy came and measured the fenceline for our garden. He hopes to finish by tomorrow and I hope he does. Rigel will then be relegated to digging holes in the woods and the backyard rather than the garden and the orchard. This home’s most expensive dog greeted Dan […]
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Fall Waning Blood Moon Dan the fence guy came out again. This time we’re fencing in the vegetable garden, a five foot high fence and a taut wire to run along the top of the orchard fence. Rigel is an expensive dog. Really expensive. A sweetheart, yes, but a major league nuisance, too. The electric […]
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Lughnasa Waxing Harvest Moon Good fences make good neighbors. The folks that live diagonally across the road from us, their house fronts on Round Lake Blvd., have two dogs. These dogs like to visit our dogs. Note that this means their dogs do not have an enclosure to keep them at home. When the neighbor […]
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