Beltane\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 Flower Moon<\/p>\n
A calmer day today.\u00a0 After the bee work I planted bok choy and monkshood, finished raking the potato patch level, dead-headed tulips and daffodils.\u00a0 A productive day.\u00a0 The stuff I protected last night survived the frost well, though some of the coleus got nipped a bit the night before and I forgot three coleus plants in the park.\u00a0 They don’t look great, but I think they’ll survive.<\/p>\n
I said the other chapter 14 in Wheelock was half way through the book.\u00a0 Not quite.\u00a0 Chapter 20 is halfway.\u00a0 It’s still a steep learning curve and that’s what I like.\u00a0 Even the 9 verses of the Metamorphoses I’ve translated have already given me a deeper appreciation for the whole project Ovid set himself.\u00a0 He correlates the painful and often vindictive transformations he records in the book with the kind of transformations the Gods have made to the whole of creation.\u00a0 A dark thesis.<\/p>\n
Kate’s hip is giving her fits.\u00a0 I’m really glad she has the surgery scheduled for June 30th.\u00a0 Won’t come too soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Beltane\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 Flower Moon A calmer day today.\u00a0 After the bee work I planted bok choy and monkshood, finished raking the potato patch level, dead-headed tulips and daffodils.\u00a0 A productive day.\u00a0 The stuff I protected last night survived the frost well, though some of the coleus got nipped a bit the night before and I … Continue reading Transformations<\/span>