Beltane Sliver Bee Hiving Moon Bees check this morning. Colony 1 is queenright. Colonies 2 and 3 were not queenright because I had improperly handled the indirect release. The queens were in the cage still, being tended to by the colony so I direct released both of them. At the next hive inspection, I imagine […]
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Spring Waxing Bee Hiving Moon Two tours today, 2nd graders at 10:00 am and a group of seniors from Minnetonka at 1:30. I took the kids through a mysteries of the ancient world tour. I love 2nd graders. They’re eager, uncensored, fun and often bright. We learned how sculptures lose things that stick out, why […]
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Imbolc Full Bridgit Moon First Titian tour today. If I examine my own touring skills, as I try to from time to time, I find that I’m better touring old master’s of Western art and Asian art than I am art of the Americas. The Thaw collection, which I admired, found me at my clunkiest, […]
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Imbolc Waxing Bridgit Moon OK. Today is a new day. I do not plan to torture my computers anymore today in regard to my legacy laserjet printer. It has been a faithful companion throughout the last 19 years and I do not plan to give up on it yet. Even so, I’ve experienced my tolerance […]
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Imbolc Waxing Bridgit Moon Looks like I’ll get a chance to peek into the colonies this weekend. Got my fingers crossed on survival. Best guess? Two dead, one alive. Very glad to be wrong. Got my second Gateway part way disassembled and still not sure I can get at the pint sized disc I stupidly […]
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Winter Waning Moon of the Cold Month With the Latin tutoring session behind me and Chapter 26 coming up, I downloaded a commentary on Caesar’s Gallic Wars with Latin text. I’m gonna have a shot at it for a while. Started my Titian research last week by reading the Grove entry on Titian and checking […]
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Winter Waning Moon of the Cold Month Gosh, we’re losing our mojo here, 21 degrees now and freezing tomorrow. This is the third week of January, the coldest week of the year. Don’t know whether it’s my aging brain or the difficulty of the material, but I’ve spent some prime time on infinitives and indirect […]
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