72\u00a0 bar steady 29.81 1mph NE dew-point 65\u00a0 sunrise 6:00\u00a0 sunset 8:37\u00a0 Lughnasa<\/p>\n
Waxing Crescent of the Corn Moon<\/p>\n
A writing day so far.\u00a0 I have started writing Heresy Moves West.\u00a0 It will take a bit longer than I imagined, maybe quite a bit, because I have this propensity to place things in context, deep context.\u00a0 In this case for example I have established the Protestant Reformation as the sine qua non of the development of Unitarianism and its westward expansion, at least I have established that to my content.\u00a0\u00a0 Not too much further along I intend to swing back to Abraham who listened to YHWH and left his Canaanite Gods for monotheism.\u00a0 Since you can not just go back into the past and then jump into the present, the intervening time takes a paragraph or two (at least) to describe, and all this in service of the actual topic, the history of Unitarian and Universalist churches in Minnesota.<\/p>\n
Why do I do this?\u00a0 Sheer cussedness in part.\u00a0 Simplistic explanations that ignore real historical paths irritate me.\u00a0 I do not like to emulate them.\u00a0 That means rooting my thesis about U-U expansion in Minnesota in the soils from which it sprang.\u00a0 They have lots of topsoil, gathered from diverse times and places.\u00a0 The process is sort of like archaeology.\u00a0 In order to explain the top, most recent layer of artifacts requires continuing to dig down, down, down until the physical culture either stops or changes to something completely different.<\/p>\n
Anyhow, all this means I’ll be writing for some time, maybe as long as 2 or 3 days.\u00a0 That eats into posting time.\u00a0 So, for the next few days it might be a little sparse here.\u00a0 Might not.<\/p>\n
In the past week AncienTrails had 2100 unique visits, about 300 a day.\u00a0 You are not alone.<\/p>\n
Kate and I carried the old sliding door screen into the front shed.\u00a0 We had to take all the onions off it to get it inside, then move the onions back on it.\u00a0 In addition I had to remove the remaining stalks so my hands smell like onions.\u00a0 The onions must remain in the shed for two to three weeks, then they will go in tangerine crates.\u00a0 Once in the crates the onions will await their turn in the kitchen on an old book shelf in the furnace room.\u00a0 The garlic hangs not far from their future home.<\/p>\n
When dead heading the last of the Lilium today, I found one that had bulbils.\u00a0 These form at the junction between stalk and leaf.\u00a0 They are another means of propagating lilies.\u00a0 I will cut this plant down and use the bulbils inside to create stock for next spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
72\u00a0 bar steady 29.81 1mph NE dew-point 65\u00a0 sunrise 6:00\u00a0 sunset 8:37\u00a0 Lughnasa Waxing Crescent of the Corn Moon A writing day so far.\u00a0 I have started writing Heresy Moves West.\u00a0 It will take a bit longer than I imagined, maybe quite a bit, because I have this propensity to place things in context, deep … Continue reading Onion Drying, the Next Stage<\/span>