Driving to Nebraska. Again.

Beltane                                                                   Waxing Garlic Moon Motel 6 with Sollie, Lincoln Nebraska At 8:35 am Sollie and I took off in the truck.  We drove straight through to this little piece of heaven. Driving between Andover and Lincoln, a frequent trip, goes through some of the less visually interesting parts of the United States. Sollie is now […]

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Bee Diary: Supplemental

Lughnasa                            Waning Artemis Moon The varroa mite count is in and my bees had–1.  That’s one mite for the sample of some 225 bees.  I didn’t get the optimal 300, see the business about the bees not volunteering for freezing to death, but finding only 1 mite makes me feel pretty comfortable.  Wednesday I’ll check […]

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A Pleasant and Substantial Path

70  bar steady 30.13  0mpn SSE dew-point 62  sunrise 6:16 sunset 8:17  Lughnasa Full Corn Moon  moonrise 2014    moonset  0554 “Mistakes are at the very base of human thought … feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack of being wrong, we could never get anything useful done.” – […]

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Eat a Peach, Live Forever

75  bar falls 29.75 1mph WSW dewpoint 41  Beltane                       New Moon (Hare Moon) I chose the English medieval name for the moon this month because of a wonderful incense burner in the Weber Collection.  It is a bronze bunny, eyes lifted toward the moon, ears erect.  There are holes where the ears meet the head […]

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And the Soothsayers Predicted Snow

55  bar falls 29.79 0mph SE dewpoint 54  Spring   light rain                 Waning Gibbous Moon of Growing And the soothsayers predicted Snow.  Oh, no.  Really, not a big deal.  Slush is more likely.  The precipitation now is all good.  As the weather continues (generally) to warm, the combination of rising soil temperatures and moisture puts […]

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