75\u00a0 bar steady 29.84\u00a0 0mph NE dew-point 68\u00a0 Sunrise 5:50\u00a0 Sunset 8:59pm Summer<\/p>\n
Last Quarter of the Thunder Moon<\/p>\n
A Deborah Madison recipe I used this noon called for tomatoes, beet greens, oregano, olive oil and garlic.\u00a0 The beet greens came from the golden beets I picked just before the lunch.\u00a0 The oregano from Kate’s herb garden.\u00a0 We had a couple of dried garlic bulbs. I thought they had not differentiated. but I decided to use it as it was.\u00a0 When I peeled back the white, papery layers over the bulb I found cloves.\u00a0 This meant\u00a0 two things.\u00a0 I had enough garlic for the recipe and the garlic in the bed could be harvested now.\u00a0 The dish was great, but the cloves excited me.<\/p>\n
There is no reason why growing garlic bulbs with cloves should excite me so much, except it entered my head early in the gardening season–last September.\u00a0 They grew throughout the winter and were ready to harvest in July, just as the cultural recommendations for it said.\u00a0 Their taste is more intense and more sweet, at least this variety.\u00a0 I planted three.<\/p>\n
In the furnace room, hanging from green gardening twine are four bunches of garlic bulbs.\u00a0 Set aside from them are the largest 2 bulbs from each variety.\u00a0 They will go in the ground in late September or early October to produce more garlic for next July.\u00a0 Kate will take a large head from each bunch out to Jon and Jen so they can have garlic in their garden.\u00a0 They too will be able to harvest the largest heads and plant from them.\u00a0 This chain of living things, nurtured and in turn nurturing, is the true great chain of being.<\/p>\n
Watched 10,000 BC on the recommendation of a friend.\u00a0 Well, the anachronisms were many: iron, boats, buildings, captive mammoths and the story line fed on coincidence.\u00a0 On the other hand the Woolly Mammoths and the Sabre Toothed Tiger were very real.\u00a0 A mish-mash of times, cultures and continents.\u00a0 Just what I thought when I was the first ads.\u00a0 In fairness, the same friend watched There Will Be Blood on my recommendation.\u00a0 He thought it was too violent and the lead character, played by Daniel Day-Lewis, a poor guy with whom to spend a couple of hours.<\/p>\n
There Will Be Blood is a mythic movie of great power.\u00a0 It speaks to the heart of what ails American culture and it speaks the truth.\u00a0 The truth is neither pretty nor easy and the film knows it.\u00a0 It is uncomfortable, but that it is different from bad.\u00a0 10,000 BC is an entertainment and it works sometimes and not others, but it is not mythic, either in truth or in story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
75\u00a0 bar steady 29.84\u00a0 0mph NE dew-point 68\u00a0 Sunrise 5:50\u00a0 Sunset 8:59pm Summer Last Quarter of the Thunder Moon A Deborah Madison recipe I used this noon called for tomatoes, beet greens, oregano, olive oil and garlic.\u00a0 The beet greens came from the golden beets I picked just before the lunch.\u00a0 The oregano from Kate’s … Continue reading The Heart of What Ails American Culture<\/span>