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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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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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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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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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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