Lughnasa Waning Harvest Moon An edible Docent luncheon. Whoa. Sat with Emily, Grace, Allison, Linda, Cheryl, Amanda, Katherine, then Sheila. The actual program contained as many boring bits as usual but the table companions more than made up for the dullness of the rest. Afterward we all trundled over to the Pillsbury auditorium for Katherine’s […]
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Imbolc Waning Cold Moon OK. To finish up the thought that got strangled as Morpheus took over my body last night. Salvation through technology has infected our thinking, a direct consequence of the relentless application of reason to larger and larger spheres of knowledge. Astronomy, physics and chemistry, geology, later biology all have had their […]
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65 bar steady 29.75 2mph NW dew-point 62 Summer night First Quarter of the Thunder Moon Peanut butter. Never thought of it as a problem food, but it seems to have entered that category for me. Makes my tummy hurt. Darn it. The slippery slope of cell phone life. Tonight I entered the phone numbers […]
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83 bar steady 29.68 1mph SE dew-point 67 Summer, hot and clear Waxing Crescent of the Thunder Moon “What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate […]
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79 bar falls 29.84 1mph ENE dew-point 61 Summer, hot, moving toward muggy Waxing Crescent of the Thunder Moon The cracks in the red car’s head were tiny. I saw them. They ran, in one instance, down the threads that hold the spark plug in place. While threading in a spark plug or under pressure, […]
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76 bar rises 29.76 6mph NW dew-point 51 Summer, pleasant and warm New Moon (Thunder Moon) A new head has been found for the red car. Hopefully it will get placed on its automotive neck tomorrow and we will go back to two vehicles. This is important with the rise of gas prices since our […]
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58 bar falls 29.74 10mph E dew-point 56 Beltane, cloudy and raining First Quarter of the Flower Moon Since this has been and will be a traveling month, I’ve been attentive to weather nation-wide. It’s amazing to sit here looking outside at my garden where the vegetables are slow to mature because of cool […]
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72 bar steady 29.65 1mph SSW dew-point 53 Beltane, sunny and warm First Quarter of the Flower Moon Sometimes the language surprises even those of who try to keep up with technological innovation. “An American military supercomputer, assembled from components originally designed for video game machines, has reached a long-sought-after computing milestone by processing […]
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52 bar rises 29.94 2mph NW dewpoint 20 Beltane, sunny Waxing Gibbous Hare Moon Nope, this isn’t about naked pagans dancing under a full moon. Sorry. Rather, it’s about those things we do. In spring. The Mickman’s guy just left. “Charlie,” he said, “We came through the winter pretty good. Just one dead sprinkler.” […]
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64 bar steady 29.74 10mph NNE dewpoint 31 Beltane Waxing Crescent Hare Moon The internet continues to amaze me. A woman from Alabama finds this website and writes to tell of her journey with her son, Tristan, 2 years old and also diagnosed with hemophilia. In the world BWWW, before the World Wide Web, the […]
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