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Bee and Garden Diary

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 … Continue reading →

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Week’s End

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, … Continue reading →

Posted in Bees, Family, Weather +Climate | Tagged Annie, beets, chard, kale, Kate, Latin, lettuce, Mark, quilting, spinach | Leave a comment

Garden Diary: April 10, 2011

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 … Continue reading →

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The Growing Season Begins. Now.

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 … Continue reading →

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Leeks, Shame and Ancestry

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Dogs, Family, Great Work, Health, Memories, permaculture | Tagged basil, fennel, Hilo, Kate, leeks, lettuce, marigold, oregano, pressure, Ruth, shame, thyme, Wales | Leave a comment

Harvest and Preservation

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Cooking, Garden, permaculture, Sport | Tagged beans, beets, gazpacho, grapes, greens, jelly, Kate, lettuce, parsnips, potatoes, tomatoes, turnips, Vikings | Leave a comment

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