Because the universe seems to love irony, on a post in which I talk about the advancing state of breakdown in our culture, the fact that nothing works, the emailed message was somehow linked to an older post and NONE of the social media messaging went out. So here it is... again... hopefully... Apologies... The… Continue reading The Daily: 6 June 2024
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Holy shit! It's June! How did that happen?!? I missed much of the last eight weeks. It began with a long bout of COVID. Then there was a new job with pretty much an entirely new learning curve to master. There was fitful garden activity, mostly of a cleaning up of disasters variety. And I… Continue reading The Daily: 3 June 2024
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It's been the sort of month that pushes even climate deniers out of their comfy head-in-the-sand world. Every day there are pictures of homes and lives destroyed by extreme storms, from one end of the country to the other. In May, folks... The Northern Hemisphere is not yet heated to its summer temperatures and we're… Continue reading The Daily: 24 May 24
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Last week I finally got my car's oil changed. This is not quite the imperative that it is for a full gasoline engine, but it's still necessary. I do have to use the gas engine now and again, and I assume the electric engine uses oil for... something, I'm sure, since full electric cars seem… Continue reading The Daily: 14 May 2024
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In my garden planner, I have ambitiously scribbled "plant summer squash, cukes, melons, and spinach". Now that the day is here, I am reluctant to follow my schedule. It is not freezing, and it is raining — both good for germination — but it's not warm enough for cucurbit seeds to break dormancy. This family… Continue reading The Daily: 12 May 2024
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The Daily: 7 May 2024
The Greenleaf Moon Goes Dark Tomorrow begins the Flower Moon. There are actually flowers in my garden this year. In New Mexico, early May (and therefore Floralia and May Day) fell in a rather flowerless pause between the bulbs and the main bloom season. There were apple blossoms and sometimes roses, but not much else… Continue reading The Daily: 7 May 2024
