Fall Waxing Autumn Moon Going out today to collect the rest of the rest of the harvest. A few potato plants I missed the first time around remain. Leeks, those Musselberg Giants. Some carrots, some chard. Beans. Rain has appeared in the forecast for the first time in weeks. A good thing, but it reduces […]
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Lughnasa Waning Harvest Moon Today we moved from conjecture to certainty. The top person at English Gate Academy, Ahmed, e-mailed Mark and said he would write a personal note to the Saudi Embassy asking them to speed Mark’s visa application along. His papers cleared the Saudi Cultural Mission today and are at the Embassy so […]
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Lughnasa Full Harvest Moon Hay wagons filled with laughing teenagers. Plants beginning to go brown in the garden. Root cellars and pantries filling up from a growing season almost over. Thoughts of how to handle snow removal begin to occur. The first few leaves begin to turn, russet and gold tips on some maple trees. […]
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Mid-Summer Waning Honey Flow Moon The six new honey supers did not prove necessary since I’m still two supers ahead of each colony, but it does look like colonies 2 & 3 have already stored a lot of honey, especially in the two supers that went on in place of the third hive box. In […]
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Fall New (Harvest) Moon Second round of apiguard in the parent and the divide. The top box on the package colony has gotten heavier, but I plan to feed them some more as I will do to the parent once the apiguard comes off in two weeks. Sometime in early November I’ll get out the […]
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85 bar steep fall 29.89 0mph WNW dew-point 68 Summer, warm and sunny Waxing Gibbous Thunder Moon We long ago passed the midpoint of summer, June 21, and have begun the fattening, browning, bursting journey to the harvest season. It begins in earnest as July ends, but some early givers have offered themselves already: lettuce, […]
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79 bar rises 29.79 0mph WNW dew-point 64 Sunny and warm Waxing Gibbous Thunder Moon Finished The Thief of Baghdad last night. This movie, a 1940’s special effects pioneer, has its roots, loosely, in the Arabian Nights. Just occurred to me that the same title might be used for a documentary on the Bush years […]
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