72 bar steady 29.81 1mph NE dew-point 65 sunrise 6:00 sunset 8:37 Lughnasa
Waxing Crescent of the Corn Moon
A writing day so far. I have started writing Heresy Moves West. It will take a bit longer than I imagined, maybe quite a bit, because I have this propensity to place things in context, deep context. In this case for example I have established the Protestant Reformation as the sine qua non of the development of Unitarianism and its westward expansion, at least I have established that to my content. Not too much further along I intend to swing back to Abraham who listened to YHWH and left his Canaanite Gods for monotheism. Since you can not just go back into the past and then jump into the present, the intervening time takes a paragraph or two (at least) to describe, and all this in service of the actual topic, the history of Unitarian and Universalist churches in Minnesota.
Why do I do this? Sheer cussedness in part. Simplistic explanations that ignore real historical paths irritate me. I do not like to emulate them. That means rooting my thesis about U-U expansion in Minnesota in the soils from which it sprang. They have lots of topsoil, gathered from diverse times and places. The process is sort of like archaeology. In order to explain the top, most recent layer of artifacts requires continuing to dig down, down, down until the physical culture either stops or changes to something completely different.
Anyhow, all this means I’ll be writing for some time, maybe as long as 2 or 3 days. That eats into posting time. So, for the next few days it might be a little sparse here. Might not.
In the past week AncienTrails had 2100 unique visits, about 300 a day. You are not alone.
Kate and I carried the old sliding door screen into the front shed. We had to take all the onions off it to get it inside, then move the onions back on it. In addition I had to remove the remaining stalks so my hands smell like onions. The onions must remain in the shed for two to three weeks, then they will go in tangerine crates. Once in the crates the onions will await their turn in the kitchen on an old book shelf in the furnace room. The garlic hangs not far from their future home.
When dead heading the last of the Lilium today, I found one that had bulbils. These form at the junction between stalk and leaf. They are another means of propagating lilies. I will cut this plant down and use the bulbils inside to create stock for next spring.