Workin’

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Beltane                                                                       Beltane Moon Flagged off my Latin tutor for this Friday.  Bees, garden, retreat, finishing Missing combined to soak up […]

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A lot of manure

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Spring                                     Full Flower Moon Moved two hundred pounds of composted manure by wheelbarrow from the garage back to the garden.  Gee, that got my heart rate up.  Moved the same yesterday, too.  Still amending beds.  I put down newspaper as mulch between my garlic rows, then layered composted manure on top of the newspaper.  Got […]

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Timeless Masterpiece Liked

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Samhain                               Waning Dark Moon “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson It never occurred to me just how much Emerson and Brad Childress have in common.  The Vikings are always getting ready for this Sunday, not thinking about last Sunday or the Sunday after […]

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Primal Eating

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71  bar rises 29.87 0mph NE dew-point 58  sunrise 6:00  sunset 8:38 Lughnasa New (Corn) Moon A vegetarian meal  tonight.  Spaghetti squash, golden beets, cucumber tomato and onion salad and cooked whole onion.  Colorful and healthy.  All but the tomatoes were from our garden, including the garlic and cilantro sauteed in olive oil as a […]

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