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<\/p>\nSpring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Bee Hiving Moon<\/p>\n
Talked to the grandkids on Skype.\u00a0 Gabe’s linguistics have made a jump and Ruthie seems to have rocketed past the early years of childhood and landed in an elementary school body.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Jen went to crossfit<\/a> this morning.\u00a0 If you’re not familiar with this gonzo approach to fitness, click on the link.\u00a0 She’s gonna be tired.<\/p>\n Skype has increased the quality of long distance communication with kids by a geometric factor.\u00a0 We tickled Gabe, watched Ruth move gracefully through the house.\u00a0 We saw the expression on Ruth’s face as she dumped out a box of soft building blocks.\u00a0 It was impish and knowing.\u00a0 We saw Gabe do his mad face and his happy face.\u00a0 Wonderful.<\/p>\n I decided the other day that the only way I’m going to get good at Tai Chi is to practice, practice, practice.\u00a0 I go through the form several times, all the way through the single whip, the last and most complicated move we’ve learned.\u00a0 Doing it in the morning, as a moving meditation and a general loosening up of the body for the day is where I’m headed.\u00a0 Right now, though, I’m doing it before I do my aerobics.<\/p>\n The daffodils outside have finally begun to approach the image I had in my head all those years ago when I began to plant bulbs.\u00a0 My first and most memorable bulb planting event was on Edgcumbe Road in St. Paul.\u00a0 I began putting them in sometime in the mid-to-late afternoon, just as the snow began to fall.\u00a0 This turned out to be the Halloween snow storm which eventually dumped 2 feet of snow on the Twin Cities.\u00a0 I got the message.<\/p>\n Kate made me a quilted piece with a bee and the words Artemis Hives on the side.\u00a0 I’m going to staple it up in the shed where I store the bee equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Spring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Bee Hiving Moon Talked to the grandkids on Skype.\u00a0 Gabe’s linguistics have made a jump and Ruthie seems to have rocketed past the early years of childhood and landed in an elementary school body.\u00a0 Jen went to crossfit this morning.\u00a0 If you’re not familiar with this gonzo approach to fitness, click on the … Continue reading Impish and Knowing<\/span>