Imbolc Waning Wild Moon Sheepshead tonight. We seem to pass around the points, playing as if each person should get a turn at the head of the list and everyone a turn in the barrel. Always a good time. Tomorrow a public tour. Stuff I enjoy. Historical. Highlights. I’m still seeking a way to understand […]
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Bill Wins
Fall Waxing Blood Moon It was Bill’s night at sheepshead. He came out the big winner. I don’t feel bad. I had some good hands, won some, lost some. Had fun. Drive back I was on an entrance ramp to 35w coming off Hwy. 280. It’s a two-lane that goes down to a one-lane. Behind […]
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Fall Waxing Blood Moon Various financial matters kept me inside till lunch when I took my best gal over to Osaka. We ate a quiet lunch, both tired from the week. Back home I made a 4x serving of gazpacho which Kate will can tomorrow. I take the recipe as a suggestion. This time I […]
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Beltane Waxing Dyan Moon “After another night of losing sheepshead, it finally came to me. These guys have been playing a lot longer than I have. Bill since childhood. Roy and Dick since high school and Ed since entering the Jesuits. Now I view them as my mentors. That way I can lose and learn, […]
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Beltane Waxing Flower Moon After another night of losing sheepshead, it finally came to me. These guys have been playing a lot longer than me. Bill since childhood. Roy and Dick since high school and Ed since entering the Jesuits. Now I view them as my mentors. That way I can lose and learn, instead […]
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Spring New Moon (Seed Moon) My preparation for sheepshead foundered on two factors: 1. I could not discipline myself to count points and keep track of trump. I tended to lapse back into not counting. 2. I had poor hands and bad luck in addition. A tough combination to overcome. Still, I can learn. I’m […]
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Imbolc Waning Wild Moon My weatherblog has been up for almost a month now at the Star-Tribune Weatherwatchers site. The weather has not been interesting. It has been either really cold or not so cold. Little snow. No storms. Some days gloomy, some days not. It taxes me metaphorically to comment. I never appreciated how […]
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69 bar rises 29.85 0mph NE dew-point 68 Summer night with a full moon, steamy beautiful Full Thunder Moon Five of us sit down every 4 to 5 weeks or so and play sheepshead. This is a game, as I’ve said before, peculiar to eastern Wisconsin and there among the German community where it is […]
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43 bar steady 30.01 0mph NE dewpoint 36 Spring Waxing Gibbous Moon of Growing At last. A night where I was not the biggest loser at sheepshead. Bill Schmidt and I tied for high for the evening. I had great cards and some good luck, plus I’ve had a long lesson in sheepshead from […]
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Worlds Opening Up
Imbolc Waning Wild Moon On the way into St. Paul tonight I listened to lectures on Epicureanism, Stoicism and Skepticism. These were especially relevant and resonant for me since Latin is the native language of many who took them up, though their roots were in Greece. They got me excited about reading Cicero and Polybius, […]
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