62\u00a0 bar falls 29.71 0mph SW dewpoint 57 Beltane<\/p>\n
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It rained and the temperature dropped 13 degrees.\u00a0 Mother nature at work.\u00a0 In the cool moist air after the rain I planted onions, beets, lettuce and carrots.\u00a0 I also transplanted 3 daylily clumps out of the flower bed I’m converting to vegetables.\u00a0 Cool cloudy, preferable moist days are perfect transplanting weather.<\/p>\n
The earth smells rich, a loamy scent that arises only after a rain.\u00a0 My Dad’s Aunt Rella, an early cancer patient, took an atomic cocktail and said it tasted like “the air after a June rain.”\u00a0 An image that has remained with me all these years.<\/p>\n
I just started using a new program called SuperMemo.\u00a0 It showed up in an interesting article in Wired.\u00a0 This Polish memory researcher has developed this program that times repetitions of material you want to learn.\u00a0 This fits some neurological model of the brain.\u00a0 He guarantees 95% retention if\u00a0 you use the\u00a0program faithfully.<\/p>\n
I plan to use it learn art history, Chinese characters, horticultural information, folk tale and world history.\u00a0 And probably, over time, other stuff, too.\u00a0 This kind of thing excites me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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