Spring Waxing Bee Hive Moon The weather has turned gray, inclement, wet. The snow continues to melt, but not wholly disappear, as if it has gotten used to the yard and wants to stay as long as possible. Where the snow has melted, there is mud. Mud that tracks it on little dog’s feet. And […]
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Spring(?) Waning Bloodroot Moon Well. About a foot of new snow. A foot. Heavy, heart attack snow, too. It’s hard to imagine a less welcome weather pattern at this time, with the exception of a hard rain. Oh, yeah, we had a hard rain most of yesterday. Both of them up the ante for the […]
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Summer Waning Strawberry Moon Rain beats down and Rigel whines. We’ve had a couple of dogs with phobias about thunder. Tira was the most problematic. She preferred to climb through open car windows in the garage for some reason. I still have claw marks on the Celica’s leather interior and the Tundra has scratch marks […]
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Summer Waning Strawberry Moon After weeding Kate and I took off for lunch–at Benihanas, not nearly as good as our own, much closer, Osaka–and a visit to Lights on Broadway. A bit of dithering about where the order was, where the paperwork was, who was on third and who was on second I picked up […]
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Beltane Waning Planting Moon Today I looked up at the sky while weeding. Gray clouds covered it all and rain drops had begun to splash on the brim of my hat. The sky and I, it felt, were sad and crying, both of us, on this June summer morning. It was an odd sensation that […]
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Spring Awakening Moon Checked on the bees today. They needed syrup so I put in two pitchers full. They also needed another pollen patty. The colony looks healthy. Lots of bees hard at work. No stings. I have a few things to check on in terms of what I need to do now. Got all […]
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Imbolc Waning Wild Moon While eating breakfast this morning a loud noise, like a souped up street cleaner, disturbed my cereal. I asked Kate what it was. She thought it was a souped up street cleaner, or some other machine outside. I got up to look. It was rain. Pouring rain, buckets, pummeling the roof. […]
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Spring New Moon Lunch with Paul today at Origami. When I lunch with friends, I find we often go back to the same place we first went, even after years and years. I had lunch with an old friend last month and we returned to Gallery 8 at the Walker even though it had been […]
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46 br steady 29.67 2mph ESE dewpoint 44 Spring New Moon (Growing) A light, but steady rain falls. A cold rain. The pre-emergent and the cygon I applied yesterday will get a chance to work themselves thoroughly into the soil and around the Iris rhizomes. As the rain melts the remaining snow, I […]
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Rainfall as Destiny
Spring Waxing Bee Hiving Moon Let the rainy season begin. Thunder in the forecast for tomorrow. That means Rigel slinking around, barking at the sky, and, with Sollie and Gertie here, amping up the possible opportunities for red in tooth and claw encounters. Temperate climates change the game every three months or so, just to […]
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