Spring Planting Moon Good news. I can pick up the bees tomorrow. That makes today a good […]
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Spring Bee Hiving Moon Technological victory today. Mary (Singapore at 10:00pm), Mark (Ha’il, Saudi Arabia at 5:00 pm) and myself (Andover 9 am) on the same […]
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Winter(?) First Moon of the New Year Both sibs have sent photographs recently. Mary has taken several pictures of elephants in a series placed around Singapore. They’re part of a fund-raiser to help Southeast Asian elephants. Mary lives within […]
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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 cyberjournalists who run an online newspaper where he participated in an interview, drank tea, then […]
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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 steps to the process for teachers, certification of the degree and qualifications, then, the visa […]
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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 ahead, but more likely the prediction carries gray skies and mist, perhaps early morning fog. […]
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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 most families, but the last time we bought a new vehicle was 1999 and before […]
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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 wonder where the sense of communitarian spirit has gone. Yes, we have a can do, […]
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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 garlic than we use; for some reason it appeals to me as a crop. Partly […]
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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 marketing assistance. A woman gave a presentation on cooking with honey. How to make truffles. […]
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