5 rises 29.92 NWN0 windchill 5 Winter Waning Wolf Moon A full day Permaculture workshop. This guy, who takes a nap every day around 1pm, suffers in mid-day at day long events. In addition, I find that my mind gets overloaded, takes in too much. It’s not that I can’t absorb and eventually integrate the […]
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34 bar steep rise 30.05 2mph W Windchill 31 Samhain Last Quarter of the Dark Moon The big news! I have two peppers emerging in my hydroponic garden. That means the fertilizing I’ve done has succeeded. This is the first fruits I’ve been able to coax out of the hydroponics. But, not the last. More […]
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59 bar steady 29.98 2mh NE dew-point 53 sunrise 6:48 set 7:29 Lughnasa Waxing Gibbous Harvest Moon rise 6:15 set 3:35 9AM Sun/Shade OK. All the sun/shade photographs have been printed and I will take them over to Ecological Gardens today. Just looking at them myself, it is obvious that we have vegetable growing possibilities […]
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68 bar falls 30.06 0mph NNE dew-point 38 sunrise 6:45 set 7:34 Lughnasa First Quarter of the Harvest Moon rise 4:49 set 12:17 Corn, Bleeding Heart, Impatiens, Beets and Beans at 3pm This morning I got up, ate breakfast and went straight outside. Posting in the morning has begun to interfere with other projects. […]
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64 bar falls 30.11 4mph N dew-point 45 sunrise 6:38 set 7:46 Waxing Crescent of the Harvest Moon rise 11:00 set 9:02 The morning. More gazpacho. Another triple batch. This time Kate will can it. We had a blind taste test and found we liked the canned gazpacho even more than the fresh. Go figure. […]
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57 bar rises 30.06 0mph N dew-point 50 sunrise 6:26 sunset 8:05 Lughnasa Last Quarter of the Corn Moon The weather has gotten cooler and dryer. A taste of autumn today. Most Minnesotans enjoy fall the most with winter second. Read my lily culture book this evening and got the information I needed to dig […]
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81 bar falls 29.88 1mph NNE dew-point 65 sunrise 6:22 sunset 8:09 Lughnasa Waning Gibbous Corn Moon Moving daylilies today. At last. Moved several large clumps of daylilies to new beds where they will provide a barrier between wild vegetation on the hill below seven oaks and the more domesticated garden to the southwest. This […]
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55 bar falls 29.79 0mph SE dewpoint 54 Spring light rain Waning Gibbous Moon of Growing And the soothsayers predicted Snow. Oh, no. Really, not a big deal. Slush is more likely. The precipitation now is all good. As the weather continues (generally) to warm, the combination of rising soil temperatures and moisture puts […]
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39 bar falls 30.21 7mph NNE dewpoint 14 Full Moon of Winds Warren Wolfe handed out a sheet at the Woolly retreat, a project development sheet that involves identifying a project or activity that compels us in some way. I missed his presentation since I left early for Hawai’i, so I have to fill […]
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46 bar steady 1mph SSW windchill 46 Waxing Crescent Moon of Winds Kate and I developed a plan to repay the extra money we spent in Hawai’i. It was the first joint trip we’d taken in a long time and we reverted to some old, looser behaviors. We had our business meeting and planned when to […]
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