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“I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing everything.” – Vladimir Nabokov<\/a> <\/p>\n Amen to that.<\/p>\n Another cool day.\u00a0 Great gardening weather, not so great growing weather.\u00a0 The cool temps have\u00a0 kept germination slow, my carrots have not emerged at all and only a few stray beet and lettuce seeds have begun to push through, at least at close of growing day yesterday.\u00a0<\/p>\n We will see today.\u00a0 Sometimes seeds all sprout at once, sometimes not at all.\u00a0 Germination percentages vary with weather, timing of planting, quality of seed and amount of moisture.\u00a0 We’ll get something.\u00a0 We do not watch the soil with the same eagerness as pioneers, for example, whose lives may have depended on germination.\u00a0 I can only imagine that then the progress of the seed received an attention bordering on pleading and prayer.<\/p>\n We have the grandkids playhouse in the truck, three very large boxes of a put-it-together by the numbers building we bought at Costco.\u00a0 Today’s task is to unload it and cover it with a tarp until we can level the area now cleared by the Steve and Aimee’s assistance yesterday.\u00a0 After that we move brush onto yet more homes for the small and furry.\u00a0 Not sure what after that.<\/p>\n I’m signing out for the summer from the MIA.\u00a0\u00a0 In September 2006 I began the second year of the docent education process.\u00a0 In summer 2007 I signed up for the Made in Scandinavia painting exhibition.\u00a0 After labor day the school year touring got going.\u00a0 I had a month off in February for Hawai’i, but other than nothing longer than a week since 2006.\u00a0 It’s time for a break.\u00a0 Besides, I need to get back to work on that novel.\u00a0 And a children’s book or two, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 51\u00a0 bar steady\u00a0 29.75 3mph N dew-point 31\u00a0 Beltane, Sunny and cool \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 Full Hare Moon\u00a0 “I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing everything.” – Vladimir Nabokov Amen to that. Another cool day.\u00a0 Great gardening weather, not so great growing weather.\u00a0 The cool temps have\u00a0 kept germination … Continue reading More Homes for the Small and Furry<\/span>