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Spring Planting … Continue reading
Spring Planting … Continue reading
Spring Bee Hiving Moon Technological victory today. Mary (Singapore at 10:00pm), … Continue reading
Winter(?) First Moon of the New Year Both sibs have sent photographs recently. Mary has taken several pictures of elephants in a series placed … Continue reading
Samain Moon of the Winter Solstice Brother Mark has settled in to Ha’il. So much so that he visited, by their invitation, a group of … Continue reading
Lughnasa Waxing Harvest Moon Oh. Visas. I think I shall never see a visa lovely as a tree. Or something like that. Anyhow, the Saudi visa saga took an unexpected and unpleasant turn this morning. Turns out there are two … Continue reading
Lughnasa Waxing Harvest Moon As August slides away and the sky shifts its colors toward deeper hues, an inner barometer detects higher emotional pressures. The atmosphere weighs more, cuing those momentary pauses, breaks in attention. It may signal a storm … Continue reading
Mid-Summer New Honey Extraction Moon Kate and I bought a new vehicle yesterday, a Toyota Rav-4. Well, we picked out the things we wanted, left a deposit and now wait for the finding. This may not be big news in … Continue reading
Mid-Summer Waxing Honey Flow Moon Independence Day. Celebrating our ancestor’s victory over the British army and considering how their enlightenment ideals apply to our time. Happy 4th of July! For an unreconstructed radical like myself, these are trying times. I … Continue reading
Mid-Summer Waning Garlic Moon As the garlic moon wanes, the leaves of the garlic plants begin to brown from the bottom up. When half of them are brown, I’ll pull a couple to see how they’re progressing. I plant more … Continue reading
Spring Waxing Bee Hiving Moon Hobby Bee Keepers tonight. Kate and I heard a presentation on Minnesota Grown, a very interesting initiative by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture that supports local food based businesses with … Continue reading