Eliza Daley ~ Wordcraft & Musing on Home & Hope
Things to look forward to... growing your own food While I don't believe anyone can grow all their own food, most everyone can grow some of what they eat. And this is always a delight! A radish, pulled from the cold ground in the springtime. A cucumber slid from the vine. A pile of potatoes… Continue reading The Daily: 4 September 2024
The Blueberry Moon went dark at 9:56pm last night. Today, the sickle Harvest Moon follows the sun into the western horizon. The Harvest Moon is full on 17 September at 10:34pm. Moonrise so close to the full will be a lovely sight, but at its fullest it will be dimmed. This year in North America… Continue reading The Daily: 3 September 2024
Today is Labor Day in the US. This first Monday in September is the day that our country dedicated to honoring the working classes after the powers that be decided that May Day, the original Labor Day, was too closely tied to the actual labor movement. A parade of organized laborers was held in New… Continue reading The Daily: 2 September 2024
St Giles and the Hind by the Master of St Giles (National Gallery, London) Today is the feast day of St Giles, who comes from the legendary days of Medieval Christianity. He was supposedly a 7th century prince of Athens who moved to the Rhone Valley and became a monk. He left a trail of… Continue reading The Daily: 1 September 2024
You gotta love the energy-economics people. They really are trying so hard to understand why whatever has propelled this system for several centuries suddenly no longer works. They rightly deduce that a program of ever-increasing material use is not going to last long on a finite planet, nor in a finite universe, for that matter.… Continue reading The Daily: 30 August 2024
Things to look forward to... feeding the birds This time of year, when the day starts dark with fog and ends in warm sunshine, the birds are starting to think about migration. In days when we still had swallows, they were already leaving in late August. After a summer of darting jet arrowheads swooping and… Continue reading The Daily: 28 August 2024
I need to take a harvest hiatus for a bit here. Probably won't be completely gone, but it will be light. I have to do something about the apples and peaches. Have to get the dead radishes out and plant some peas and carrots for fall and overwintering. Have to finally finish the mulch project… Continue reading The Daily: 22 August 2024
Things to look forward to... getting things done The weeds on the house side of the road had gotten ahead of me. I have been pulling crabgrass and wild clematis out of the veg garden a little every day. I also laid down more cardboard between the beds and then covered that with mulch. This… Continue reading The Daily: 21 August 2024
It has cooled down substantially. There have been morning fogs and evening breezes. It's still very humid and the smoke is still hazing the hills, making mountains insubstantial, mere ideas of solidity squatting across the river valley. It is also raining most days, but lightly, not torrents (except for the storm cell that dropped more… Continue reading The Daily: 20 August 2024
The Blueberry Moon is full at 2:26pm today. That means tonight's moonrise is closest to the full. The Moon is also rather close to Earth now, so it will seem larger than usual. The media folks, apparently feeling bereft of news that is not catastrophic, is nattering on about supermoons. I still don't know what… Continue reading The Daily: 19 August 2024
By My Solitary Hearth 