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Beltane Early Growth Moon Got my soil test results back … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Singapore
Video Phone a Reality At Last!
Spring Bee Hiving Moon Technological victory today. Mary (Singapore at 10:00pm), … Continue reading
A Third of the World Between Sibs
Winter(?) First Moon of the New Year Both sibs have sent photographs recently. Mary has taken several pictures of elephants in a series placed … Continue reading
A Reunion
Mid-Summer Waning Garlic Moon As the garlic moon wanes, the leaves of the garlic plants begin to brown from the bottom up. When half of them are brown, I’ll pull a couple to see how they’re progressing. I plant more … Continue reading
Posted in Bees, Family, Health, Politics
Tagged 2012 legislature, Diane, garlic, issue selection, Latin, Mary, queen excluders, San Francisco, Singapore
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Wanderers
Winter New Moon of the Cold Month My brother, Mark, is a traveler, a wanderer, a planet. He can’t sit still, a powerful urge to move comes over him, an urge with plenty of family reinforcement. Dad took to the … Continue reading
The Buddha
Lughnasa Full Artemis Moon No. Not that Buddha. A small, bald, slightly pudgy baby Buddha. That was what we called my sister when she was still an infant. Mary had an inscrutable baldness going for her. Now she lives in … Continue reading
Expatriate Kin
Beltane Waxing Planet Moon Expatriates. Both my brother (see below) and my sister live the expat life in Southeast Asia, Mary in Singapore and Mark in Bangkok. I’ve only been over there once, in 2004, for one month, they have … Continue reading
Changes
Fall Waxing Dark Moon The leaves have finally changed color in our yard. It happened almost over night. Many went dry before they turned, but more have become red, gold, yellow. The colors of fall are as much a part … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Family, Health, Holidays
Tagged back surgery, fall, Kate, Mary, Singapore
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Where to Buy Japanese Gardening Tools? Home Depot!
69 bar falls 29.56 5mph WNW dew-point 53 Summer, pleasant with fluffy cumulus gathering Last Quarter Flower Moon When in Hawai’i I noticed the Filipino gardeners at the Hyatt had small, sickle like tools. One of them had a serrated … Continue reading
Cool House Plants
69 bar rises 29.73 0mph NNW dew-point 57 A summer night Last Quarter of the Flower Moon This time period, after the iris bloom and the lilacs have died back, we have annuals like petunias, begonias, geraniums and vinca plus the odd … Continue reading