Mid-Summer Waxing Honey Flow Moon Picked Kate up at a very quiet Fairview-University. She got into the truck cab under her own steam, stands on her new hip and walks short distances with the aid of the walker. Her progress from last Friday amazes me. She tires quickly, of course, but she’s already on the […]
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Beltane Waxing Garlic Moon So, this guy has this dog. He puts up an electric fence to stop the dog. The dog jumps up on the fence, standing as a mountain goat, all four feet together, on the electric fence and the wooden top rail. She’s laughing at me. It’s another episode in the long […]
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Beltane Waxing Garlic Moon One more shocking day. Headed out this morning with Mark to Fleet Farm. If you’ve not ever encountered Fleet Farm, your life is not complete. A megastore before there were megastores Fleet Farm carries all that stuff you can’t find anywhere else. Electric fence supplies in this case. Yes, my dog […]
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Beltane Waxing Garlic Moon Tomorrow I leave for Lincoln, Nebraska. Sollie will head back to Denver with Jon. Our goal here is to calm the dog situation down by getting rid of the extra dog and getting to work integrating Gertie into our pack. She has a Jekyll and Dog personality; sweet and friendly, cuddly […]
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Beltane Waxing Garlic Moon Bee check this morning. Colony 1 is about a week ahead of 2 and 3 due to my late release of the queens in those two colonies. None of them have brood in the top box, though there is new pollen stores and honey. They’ve only had the top box on […]
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Beltane Waxing Garlic Moon Pentheus gets ripped apart by his mother and her fellow Bacchantes. The Guthrie’s production of The Bacchantes by Euripides several years ago gave the story a telling I’ve never forgotten. It gave me a jolt. I’ve moved on from Diana and Actaeon in Ovid to Pentheus. His story begins about 250 […]
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Beltane Full Last Frost Moon I now have a full degree in dog barrier visualization, construction and maintenance. A guest dog, Gertie from Denver, has discovered the joys of orchard exploration. In her case she crawls over the fence, runs over to the blue berry patches, jumps in and digs. Furiously. So. In this instance […]
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Spring Waning Bee Hiving Moon Beets and leeks. Carrots and spinach. Lettuce and kale. Sugar snap peas and sugar peas. Garlic from last year. Strawberries and raspberries. A few missed onions. Rhubarb. Asparagus? We’ve got green things above ground, not far above ground, with the exception of the mighty rhubarb, but we have germination and […]
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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 the airport. Makes the drive much shorter and I get a good meal in the […]
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Spring Waning Bloodroot Moon As travel agent for our house, I make reservations, check on them, plan itineraries and handle changes to travel plans. Like several of my domestic responsibilities I have these duties because of misspent time over the last couple of decades + learning how to use computers, then the web. Mostly I […]
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