Mid-Summer Full Honey Flow Moon More fun with the alarm system. Back and forth with ADT. On the phone, pushing buttons. Still the chirping. Service call. Business meeting. Scheduling a Denver trip for sometime in September. Looking at buying some … Continue reading
Beltane Waxing Last Frost Moon A long, 3 hour, nap, perfect for a gloomy, chill spring afternoon. Then off to the grocery store. With Mark here there are items on the list peculiar to him like Raisin Bran, lots of … Continue reading
Samhain Waxing Moon of the Winter Solstice An inside day today. Tomorrow outside. A little bit of chainsaw action on trees broken by the early wet snow in November. Some snowblower work on the sidewalk, clearing a wider path to … Continue reading
Lughnasa Waning Artemis Moon Easton and Ray, both soon to be seniors at Andover High, worked this morning, moving wood chips, laying them down on the paths Kate and I cleared of weeds yesterday. Both fit and energetic they kept … Continue reading
Lughnasa Full Artemis Moon Kate and I yanked up the carpet under the mulched paths in our orchard, cleaned it off and re-laid it after putting weed seed germination preventer and round-up on the green vegetation in the paths. These … Continue reading
Lughnasa Full Artemis Moon Today the orchard, tomorrow…the vegetable patch and the orchard. Kate and I will take up the carpet laid down for paths in the orchard (it keeps weeds down and mulch gets distributed over it), clean out … Continue reading
Summer Waxing Grandchildren Moon Ray, the Andover High School junior who mows our yard, came over today and we moved the shredded bark into its home on the beds and walkways of the vegetable garden. He’s 15 or 16. I’m … Continue reading
Summer Waxing Grandchildren Moon Started the morning with my favorite kind of work, mechanical. Question: how to get the mower deck off the lawn tractor. It is, I recall the salesman saying 14 years ago, “A snap.” Well, he should … Continue reading
Summer Waxing Summer Moon The six cubic yard of mulch pile has become several piles of mulch at strategic locations along the paths and beds of last year’s orchard installation. Now it awaits distribution, looking like debris fields from some … Continue reading
Summer Waxing Summer Moon “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.”- Bertrand Russell Hmmm. I wonder if that’s true? Laid down some more … Continue reading