40\u00a0 bar falls 30.27\u00a0 6mph\u00a0 SSE\u00a0 dewpoint 24\u00a0 Spring<\/p>\n
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Ah.\u00a0 Can you feel the sigh?\u00a0 A weekend with no outside obligations at all.\u00a0 I plan to do clean up, plant some more seeds, read, maybe watch a bit more of the NCAA.\u00a0 How about that Davidson, huh?\u00a0 Took out Wisconsin.\u00a0 That’s a student body of 1,700 versus one of what, 30,000?\u00a0 I will read chapter 3 in the Permaculture design book for sure, perhaps polish off a novel or two, maybe start writing one of my own.\u00a0 I have an idea that’s been bouncing around for some time now.<\/p>\n
Tonight at 5PM I get to celebrate Chinese New Year again with the CIF guides.\u00a0 I look forward to this each year, this one especially because I’ve done my homework on China and Japan over the last few months.\u00a0 Saw MingJen, who organizes this event, on Wednesday at the Naomi Kawase film, The Mourning Forest.<\/p>\n
If you can, would you write Hillary and tell her to get out now?\u00a0 We need a chance to even up with McCain and a bitter end to the Democratic primary race just lets him have the field to himself.\u00a0 I don’t have anything against Hillary, in fact she and Obama are about a horse apiece politically, but Obama has won the field, has the delegates and deserves his chance.\u00a0 Hillary will have another shot.\u00a0 She’s established that a woman can run as a serious candidate, a remarkable and historic achievement in itself.\u00a0\u00a0Nothing in the feminist revolution demands that women win all contests or get all the jobs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Snow continues to retreat in our yard, but slowly.\u00a0 As in years past, the Perlick’s grass is almost fully visible, while ours remains under 6-8 inches of snow.\u00a0 They face south, we face north and that makes all the difference.\u00a0 Spring comes to our property about a week later than theirs, weird as that is.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Thursday I followed the dog tracks in the snow and went out to check on my trees planted last spring.\u00a0 Some animal, either rabbits or deer, have eaten the tops of them down to the garden hose I put around them as protection from mice.\u00a0 I didn’t think tall enough up the food chain.\u00a0\u00a0 These were the trees I planted nearest the area we call the park.\u00a0 Further north, also on the eastern edge of our westernmost woods, another group of oaks, white pines and Norway pines look like they’ve done well over the winter.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This is the nature of gardening.\u00a0 Try this and it works.\u00a0 Try that and it doesn’t.\u00a0 Listen.\u00a0 Repeat what worked, change what didn’t.\u00a0 Plants and a particular location engage the attentive gardener or horticulturist (as I’m beginning to think of myself) in a constant dialogue as shade patterns change, seasonal sun shifts become more understood, rain falls or does not fall and various cultivars and seeds prove well suited to the site or not.\u00a0 This dialogue is multi-lingual as one party communicates in one language and the other has to translate, but it is true discourse as each can alter the others ideas.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
40\u00a0 bar falls 30.27\u00a0 6mph\u00a0 SSE\u00a0 dewpoint 24\u00a0 Spring \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Last Quarter Moon of Winds Ah.\u00a0 Can you feel the sigh?\u00a0 A weekend with no outside obligations at all.\u00a0 I plan to do clean up, plant some more seeds, read, maybe watch a bit more of the NCAA.\u00a0 How about that Davidson, huh?\u00a0 Took out Wisconsin.\u00a0 … Continue reading Plants and a Particular Location + Gardener = Dialogue<\/span>