Mid-Summer Waning Garlic Moon Today I performed partial hive box reversals in all three colonies. The second hive box of three gets rotated to the bottom and the first or bottom box rotates up to take its place. This means that all the hive boxes have to be moved, so it is a labor intensive […]
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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 The outside gardening season has begun. Kate and I worked in the vegetable garden together this morning. She (I’m in destructo mode) cleaned out beds, cut down raspberry canes, weeded and pruned. I worked more composted manure into the beds, then planted American Spinach, Golden Beets and Lettuce. I also […]
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Winter Waning Moon of the Cold Month -13 at 8 am today Just slept 11 hours. After a two-hour nap. And ten hours the night before. My body is at work, fending off this chest cold I have. I feel pretty good right now, but I don’t think it’s quite done. Still, fluids, steam baths […]
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Spring Waxing Flower Moon The new dog food must be a mistake. The whippets did not eat at all this morning, the big dogs ate little. Hilo (our smallest whippet) is in her crate with what I take to be a belly ache since she doesn’t look seriously ill. How do I know? Well, I […]
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Lughnasa Waning Harvest Moon It changed. The game. After half-time most of the time, I expected to see showed up. How about that 64 yard run by Peterson? Wow. Still, it concerned me that we didn’t get more pressure on Brady Quinn. I’m looking forward to the analysis. Kate has made grape juice, a lot, […]
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