Spring Waning Bee Hiving Moon The bees buzzed around their new homes while Mark, Kate and I worked in the garden. Mark cleaned up a bunch of junk that always seemed just a bit too much after finishing up other work. Place looks less like we’re the poor cousins of the Beverly Hillbillies. I finished […]
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Spring Waxing Bee Hiving Moon Kate and Annie (her sister) are off to Omaha, Kansas City and various quilt shops in between. When asked what they do on the bus (she’s done this before), she said, “Talk.” Me, “No singing, no poker, no beer?” Nope. Brother Mark is here, decompressing from a tough six months, […]
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Spring Waxing Bee Hiving Moon Business meeting this am. Looked at our IRA and Vanguard balances. Both healthy thanks to good planning and the recent surge in the market. Theses glances at our assets won’t be as much fun when the market heads south again, as it will. Right now though they’re cheering. I […]
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Lughnasa Waning Artemis Moon The onions, red, yellow and white, are in the storage room ready to go on the wooden racks when I have a minute. The honey, too, is on the bottom row of our shelving unit, collected in canning jars and resting in the boxes that held the canning jars in the […]
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Lughnasa Full Artemis Moon Still waiting on the extracting equipment though I imagine it will arrive soon. Then, setting up the honey house with the extractor and the capping knife and the capping container. I’ll move some things around, get ready for winter storage of honey supers, put in a solid table for handling supers […]
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Beltane Full Planting Moon Ah, the sweet feel of being in synch with the moon. I planted Scarlet Nantes carrots and golden beets amongst the green onions and the radicchio. Threw in a few zinnias for good measure. Next in the onion bed with storage onions, dill, marigolds and some other flower I can’t recall, […]
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Spring Full Flower Moon Under the full flower moon I inspected my new colony of bees. In this instance I checked the frames for larvae. I couldn’t tell if they were there or not. This is important because it indicates the presence or absence of a laying queen. I’ll check again on Saturday. The queen […]
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Summer Waxing Green Corn Moon Dinner with vegetables straight from the garden is a treat and can be a surprise. It was tonight. We had potatoes, new potatoes, dug just before cooking. They had a distinct flavor, a nutty earthy tone unfamiliar from the long since harvested potatoes typical of both home and restaurant cooking. […]
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