Beltane Early Growth Moon Got my soil test results back from International Ag. Labs. I plan to follow their recommendations and have sent an order […]
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Spring Bee Hiving Moon Technological victory today. Mary (Singapore at 10:00pm), Mark (Ha’il, Saudi Arabia at 5:00 pm) and myself (Andover 9 am) on the same […]
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Winter(?) First Moon of the New Year Both sibs have sent photographs recently. Mary has taken several pictures of elephants in a series placed around Singapore. They’re part of a fund-raiser to help Southeast Asian elephants. Mary lives within […]
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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 garlic than we use; for some reason it appeals to me as a crop. Partly […]
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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 road all the time, as often as he could, as long as he could, even […]
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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 the land of the Buddha, the oldest Buddhism of all, Theravada, and has long since […]
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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 both been there over 20 years. That’s a long time to live in another culture, […]
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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 of our landscape as the snowdrops and daffodils are of spring. Fall’s color gives us […]
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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 edge down and a cutting edge up. The other had a slightly curved blade and […]
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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 Siberian Iris and peony, not many late June perennials in our garden. We await now the […]
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