Samhain Waxing Moon of the Winter Solstice Hmmm. The ablative absolute and the passive periphrastic did not get put straight into my brain. I stumbled through my lesson today, learning by mistake, a common method for me. Still, I added a few more verses of Ovid to my translated column, down to 52. Greg is […]
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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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Spring Waning Seed Moon The bee hives have a new coat of white sealer, a soothing color for them. The raised bed on which I painted them has some tulips pushing up and the bed across from it have the garlic. They’ve begun to wake up in force now so we’ll have the pleasure of […]
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Spring Waning Moon of Winds The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. – Walt Whitman Business meeting and plants this morning. The business meeting went just fine, our financial management continues to work for us and not against us. Wish I could say the same for the financial markets. Sigh. Decided to check. […]
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-6 steep fall 30.26 E1 windchill -8 Winter Waning Wolf Moon Boy do I feel good. I recalled that some legislative meetings are webcast, broadcast, or taped. Turns out the one I need to cover will be on Channel 17 at 3pm or I can watch it live on the web. God, you gotta love […]
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7 rises 29.48 WNW2 wchill 5 Winter light snow Waxing Gibbous Wolf Moon The seeds for the 2009 vegetable garden sit on my desk beside me in piles according to growth habit: viny, climbing, bushy, root or leafy. When I get the chance, they’ll go in my homemade database with pertinent data and places to […]
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64 bar steady 29.81 2mph S dewpoint 50 Spring Full Moon of Growing It’s that time of year again. The time, that is, when I have to pull the shades of my east facing computer room windows. Otherwise, it heats up in here. Pretty fast. If we’d get some rain to get with this […]
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36 bar steep fall 29.84 1mph SSE Dewpoint 26 Spring Waxing Gibbous Moon of Winds Ah. Hands back in the soil, thinking and doing with plants. We bought two stems of yellow Plumeria when we were in Hawai’i and I potted them today. Just the act of finding a pot, putting in some potting […]
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