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February 2009

February  4th 2009  "Why complicate things with explanation...."

February  5th 2009  "The category of close to venerable...."

February  6th 2009  "..the fume kiln is an igloo."

February  7th 2009  "Doddering perhaps but not wise."

February  8th 2009  "I have what the wife calls muffin top."

February  9th 2009  "What does a southerner know about chard?"

February 10th 2009  "When I was small... I knew it as mango fly."

February 11th 2009  "Planting potato beyond the kraal."

February 12th 2009  "Living upon the consumption of others...."

February 13th 2009  "The word 'toft'...."

February 14th 2009  "Whose coat is that jacket?"

February 15th 2009  "Today we fired the fume kiln..."

February 16th 2009  "Philemon owned a bicycle.."

February 17th 2009  "In the city of Cardiff there is a Broadway.."

February 18th 2009  "The word aedicule has a structural meaning.."

February 19th 2009  "The wholesale show is our tyrant."

February 20th 2009  "We are ready to leave."

February 21st to 26th 2009  "Craft Shows remind me of Marx..." 

February 27th 2009  "Ownership society under assault."

February 28th 2009  "Elfin ladders and bubba's bait bucket."

 

 

 

 

March 2009

 

March  1st 2009  "Rabbit, rabbit."

March  2nd 2009  "I once lived in a water tank."

March  3rd 2009  "Red Sea Fish burns down"

March  4th 2009  "I used to speak Swahili and Ateso.."

March  5th 2009  "An anniversary is soon."

March  6th 2009  "All of a sudden it's warm enough for insect..."

March  7th 2009  "...Okanya didn't invent the cotton reel tractor."

March  8th 2009  "..thank goodness I am not a Bluebird.."

March  9th 2009  "I met a Walloon once."

March 10th 2009  "The House Sparrow is not a reader.."

March 11th 2009  "I thought it was a phoebe on the wheel barrow.."

March 12th 2009  "I admit to ignoring scholarship on the subject of language."

March 13th 2009  "I once joined a construction crew in the Negev"

March 14th 2009  "There will be those who insist on an idea of free will"

March 15th 2009  "The last time we planted potatoes on St. Patrick's day.."

March 16th 2009  "The aedicule survives"

March 17th 2009  "Like lambs to mint sauce we planted one row ....."

March 18th 2009  "The word 'career' and the word 'product' are markers."

March 19th 2009  "..why Nietzsche chose Zoroaster as his superman."

March 20th 2009  "Yesterday I thought the close Mockingbird had formed..."

March 21st 2009  "This time of the year there is a busyness."

March 22nd 2009  "We are under what those men and women with perfect hair...'

March 23rd 2009  "The worst night I ever spent is hard to delineate.."

March 24th 2009  "Sometimes a plant becomes personal."

March 25th 2009  "Goldfinch begin to blossom."

March 26th 2009  "There is an excellent reason for men to drink."

March 27th 2009  "Worts and banes were in the olden days a part.... "

March 28th 2009  "'Universal consciousness' is hardly a useful idea."

March 29th 2009  "Some incur an idea of consciousness with words such as.."

March 30th 2009  "I wonder how slaves manage..."

March 31st 2009  "Hedgehog, hedgehog."

 

 

 

April 2009

 

April  1st 2009  "Electricity arrived precious part by precious part."

April  2nd 2009  "Sometimes try to ask what the protocols are when the teeth.."

April  3rd 2009  "Tree Swallows have arrived...."

April  4th 2009  "Heidegger's  "Being and Time" gave a meaning to "Being"...." 

April  5th 2009  "A 'hoppy bug' likes eggplant."

April  6th 2009  "How nice it would be if rude people were useful."

April  7th 2009  "Beyond the occasional tumult over whether they were..."

April  8th 2009  "I woke up once in a wheat field..."

April  9th 2009  "The cat and I have visited the vet..."

April 10th 2009  "I tended to a wisteria in Buckinghamshire, England."

April 11th 2009  "A house wren has appeared...."

April 12th 2009  "Not the time of year for the prudish to be venturing..."

April 13th 2009  "There are periods of time that become important to memory."

April 14th 2009  "Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon was the perfect prison."

April 15th 2009  "My first 'summer' in England was spent at boarding school."

April 16th 2009  "The ancestors would have considered sacrifice by this time."

April 17th 2009  "It is warm enough for dragonfly."

April 18th 2009  "The ancestors take on magical qualities in my dreams."

April 19th 2009  "The natural condition is behind us. Whether it was golden..."

April 20th 2009  "Okanya disappeared for a while...."

April 21st 2009  "Of the five different tomato seed varieties put out.."

April 22nd 2009  "The wife's tick bite from Sunday required a visit..."

April 23rd 2009  "I heard the First Lady on 'take your children to work day'..."

April 24th 2009  "The artificial intelligence will begin to emerge through..."

April 25th 2009  "Tree Swallows appear to mate without any pretence at romance."

April 26th 2009  "The Aedicule is a space within a space."

April 27th 2009  "Too Hot...."

April 28th 2009  "I always look forward to seeing some people..."

April 29th 2009  "The fume kiln will probably be Sunday..."

April 30th 2009  "The first Europeans in the country that is now Uganda..."

 

 

 

 

May 2009

 

May  1st 2009   "I once asked a friend why the old timers called him 'Scout'."

May  2nd 2009   "When Alwin Hughes was little he always wore his Boy Scout...."

May  3rd 2009   "The fume kiln is emptied."

May  4th 2009   "Tomorrow is an anniversary."

May  5th 2009   "This settled weather pattern is rain and mist and drizzle.."

May  6th 2009   "There are places in the mind which so drift that sometimes.."

May  7th 2009   "The expression "Pompous Ass" has a certain majesty to it."

May  8th 2009   "Our Barn Swallows spend our winters in a friendlier place...."

May  9th 2009   "A discourse with weather in the late afternoon yesterday."

May 10th 2009   "Removed from the compound early this morning, to amble in ..."

May 11th 2009   "Alwin Hughes earned the name 'Skipper' in the following way..."

May 12th 2009   "Hoppy bugs.  Colorado Beetle.  And the soil has a mustiness.."

May 13th 2009   "The definitions of craft that I prefer, relate 'things made'..."

May 14th 2009   "Death is a function of life..."

May 15th 2009   "The West has put in place a separation between Philosophy .."

May 16th 2009   "The English thinker Gilbert Ryle might have enjoyed...."  

May 17th 2009   "I am a big fan of the Summer Tanager...."

May 18th 2009   "The expression "Patchy Frost" which was flung around....."

May 19th 2009   "I am suspicious of a squirrel in the barn."

May 20th 2009   "The old machine has charm.  The new machine just does..."

May 21st 2009   "In the old song there is a familiar refrain..."

May 22nd 2009   "Hoppy bug in the eggplant, but a summer kitchen has a roof."

May 23rd 2009   "There is a point when the question becomes "What is it..."

May 24th 2009   "One saga of ascent runs this way."

May 25th 2009   "There is a moment when the earth in these latitudes accepts.."

May 26th 2009   "In one analysis, a 'loser' is understood as that individual..."

May 27th 2009   "Morrison Swift describes the fate of John Corcoran, who.."

May 28th 2009   "Those moments which are hard on 'being' arrive..."

May 29th 2009   "I have one ear that is good and one ear that is bad..."

May 30th 2009   "In those years between the first and second world war..."

May 31st 2009   "The "mwah-mwah" is not a political organization..."

 

 

 

 

June 2009

 

June  1st 2009   "In my view, the use and management of that ground over.."

June  2nd 2009   "Of those places I have spent time, one of the most enchanted."

June  3rd 2009   "For many years I lived with Russell's view of mysticism."

June  4th 2009   ""To think" and "to be" are products of rationalism..."

June  5th 2009   "Every now and then the wife and I experience an angst..."

June  6th 2009   "Not everyday do I have the opportunity to contemplate flying.."

June  7th 2009   "Such is the conundrum within the metaphysics of family..."

June  8th 2009   "Eve, in the tradition, succumbed to temptation first."

June  9th 2009   "Every so often a moth gets into the room where I sleep."

June 10th 2009   "Hundreds of miles traveled and not once did I see a hitchhiker."

June 11th to 17th 2009  "Absent any reasonable context, an aero-plane landed."

June 18th 2009   "Perhaps my recall has stumbled."

June 19th 2009   "Providence offers a future for some.  Others procure a future."

June 20th 2009   "In both memory and history there is a subjective stance."

June 21st 2009   "Not for me the politics of the social.  That engine oil..." 

June 22nd 2009   "Early midsummer mornings are as the ancestors must have heard.."

June 23rd 2009   "So often evil is a necessary aspect of vengeance.."

June 24th 2009   "Such is the torpor in which so many of my relatives.."

June 25th 2009   "In the progress of offending people, it is always polite.."

June 26th 2009   "Nor is there a continuum between perfect and imperfect..."

June 27th 2009   "Unlike a majority in the universe I seemed to have missed.."

June 28th 2009   "November 20 to November 30.  Somewhere between these two.."

June 29th 2009   "When a Dodo first met the Portuguese..."

June 30th 2009   "Amongst the creatures upon this earth the tourist or the.." XXX

 

 

 

 

July 2009

 

July  1st 2009    "Nothing is more vengeful than a blackberry plant on a sunny.."

July  2nd 2009    "Why Socrates chose hemlock, when the alternative was exile.."

July  3rd 2009    "A rare event for a jobbing gardener is an invitation into.."

July  4th 2009    "Nothing from the Summer Tanager on this day of celebration.."

July  5th 2009    "Those who celebrate 'greatness' must first presume..."

July  6th 2009    "Creative Is Day"

July  7th 2009    "The first gardens I worked in the USA belonged to a genre.."

July  8th 2009    "Around the swimming pool is usually a stone or concrete bib."

July  9th 2009    "It is a cultural bias...."

July 10th 2009    "The outdoor stove has its drawbacks."

July 11th 2009    "A comrade amongst the beans this morning."

July 12th 2009    "Necessary sometimes to anticipate unhappiness."

July 13th 2009    "I haven't had a proper job since 1984, I think."

July 14th 2009    "I can picture them now.  "Creative is."  A collection..."

July 15th 2009    "One inch of rain contains an assertion of stability.."

July 16th 2009    "Time as quality day"

July 17th 2009    "This time some weeks ago there were nine little quail.."

July 18th 2009    ""Spoonidexterous" has emerged from the wife as a word to.."

July 19th 2009    "Before "Noddy went to Toyland", where he was promptly.."

July 20th 2009    "The great leader or the great moment is a yearning that.."

July 21st 2009    "I once worked for an English couple who ran a cafe.."

July 22nd 2009    "Those end places in imagination are too often designed.."

July 23rd 2009    "In order to provide for his divinity, a dubious miracle.."

July 24th 2009    "There is a little white furry caterpillar feeding amongst.."

July 25th 2009    "..two of the older boys thought they were cars."

July 26th 2009    "Many years ago I walked on King Offa's dyke..." 

July 27th 2009    "A Space In The Mind Day" 

July 28th 2009    "The English have a rain dance.  It is called cricket."

July 29th 2009    "A "still mind" is advertized as the place to go for harmony with now."

July 30th 2009    "This morning there was difficulty determining the day of the week."

July 31st 2009    "Okanya would point at a dust devil to ensure it minded its..."

 

 

 

 

 

August 2009

 

August  1st 2009  "There are ferocious moments in the vegetable garden."

August  2nd 2009  "In several languages the word "doodoo" refers to insects in general."

August  3rd 2009  "I would like to believe that in the time of wandering Shawnee.."

August  4th 2009  "The Jesus Nut has been absent from town."

August  5th 2009  "The barn is a happy chaos of dust and often useful things."

August  6th 2009  "A controlling personality is more often than not irksome."

August  7th 2009  "Getting to be the middle of August."

August  8th 2009  "I mentioned a mole barrier."

August  9th 2009  "In the evening, a moon on the Eastern horizon will send shadows.."

August 10th 2009  "Those who have reflected upon language have sometimes.."

August 11th 2009  "With respect to moles I believe the more practical third of.."

August 12th 2009  "It could be a good year for fungus.."

August 13th 2009  "I spent a year working shifts in the parcel department..."

August 14th 2009  "While this past July was happening, I made the odd pompous.."

August 15th 2009  "My left and right sides have achieved détente."

August 16th 2009  "An artist's statement has over the past several dozen years.."

August 17th 2009  "This time it is not a mole hole in the seed bed."

August 18th 2009  "The metropolitan world is these days a little removed from.."

August 19th 2009  "In the genes I have found those qualities which produce a body.."

August 20th 2009  "Those progeny of Colorado Beetle amongst eggplants are.."

August 21st 2009  "Strawberries are running in a dramatic way."

August 22nd 2009  "Early August cuttings of Lavender take on."

August 23rd 2009  "I have learned to think of them as hot weather grasses, cool.."

August 24th 2009  "I used to work with a poetic man who had great ability."

August 25th 2009  "A mind that roams can often hit the real and come away profoundly.."

August 26th 2009  "I will admit that a person's relationship with potting soil.."

August 27th 2009  "I once heard Rhododendron described as 'funereal' by the owners.."

August 28th 2009  "That prospect of cultivating hens for their eggs has filled me with.."

August 29th 2009  "Around Christmas a very large White chicken called a turkey.."

August 30th 2009  "The window is closing on lavender cuttings."

August 31st 2009  "The analogy of "wood on the porch" is apt description for a cool.."

 

 

 

 

 

September 2009 

 

September  1st 2009  "A definition of sociopath will include an idea of evil."

September  2nd 2009  "Some stare into the tealeaves of weather forecasting and.."

September  3rd 2009  "On February the third of this year I arrived at an entertaining.."

September  4th 2009  "The hunter gatherer has paw-paw neck."

September  5th 2009  "Maybe six weeks of confidence before frost."

September  6th 2009  "The number sixty four figured in Aztec and early Chinese thought."

September  7th 2009  "Last night I had a dream of hens."

September  8th 2009  "The grey cat is seasonal.  And he has developed the habits.."

September  9th 2009  "When the moment of contentment finally arrives a mind stops."

September 10th 2009  "If cold crisp arctic air comes this way it will hit a swamp..."

September 11th 2009  "There are gleaming jewels in the firmament of minds who..."

September 12th 2009  "However, Karl Marx in discussion with Fredrick Engels would..."

September 13th 2009  "Activity around the wellhead today means soreness in the.."

September 14th 2009  "I sometimes think it better to consider plants as being.."

September 15th 2009  "This time last year a line of metal fence posts was made.."

September 16th 2009  "In the early part of life there are plants which figure."

September 17th 2009  "The Summer Tanager has a few remarks prior to abandoning us."

September 18th 2009  "Wet mornings at this time when rain comes up at us from the.."

September 19th 2009  "It has been called a Mexican Backhoe, as have I."

September 20th 2009  "A Mole Hunter is not like a yapping Terrier."

September 21st 2009  "Okanya and I were awed by the termite hunter."

September 22nd 2009  "Sometimes we wonder what it might be like to live in Arizona."

September 23rd 2009  "Mockingbird imagination has entered winter, and there are.."

September 24th 2009  "There is a mood which suggests sometimes that the planet.."

September 25th 2009  "Last year Asparagus Beans grew in the vegetable garden."

September 26th 2009  "I will say that I have had enough of the current weather pattern."

September 27th 2009  "There are amongst the great minds those who see the word..."

September 28th 2009  "A week of abstinence foisted upon it by inclement weather.."

September 29th 2009  "The air is cleaner."

September 30th 2009  " I understand why the Grey Cat has taken to catnip."

 

 

 

 

October 2009

 

October  1st 2009   "One night a Leopard ran off with the school dog."

October  2nd 2009   "I picture perfectly legible labels naming perfectly..."

October  3rd 2009   "I took an hourly wage from a garden in Oxfordshire, England."

October  4th 2009   "For those with good teeth, a Beauty of Bath apple.."

October  5th 2009   "The left and right sides of the brain are currently in opposition."

October  6th 2009   "Asparagus always sounds like a fine addition to a vegetable.."

October  7th 2009   "The slow process that some describe as civilization, may be.."

October  8th 2009   "The sky has fallen on Hens."

October  9th 2009   "Counted eight Bluebird on the electric lines."

October 10th 2009   "I suddenly think I can spend twenty dollars on twenty.."

October 11th 2009   "Images so far this month of October belong to 'time'."

October 12th 2009   "I have spent good money on four small miracle mole traps.."

October 13th 2009   "After five years of intrepid conceptualization.."

October 14th 2009   "Here in Kentucky, we are in that window of the year when.."

October 15th 2009   "In imagination I see the Hyena."

October 16th 2009   "Miracle mole traps have arrived."

October 17th 2009   "Intrepid is the Close Mockingbird."

October 18th 2009   "Always thought it was the sin of 'cantankerousness' that..."

October 19th 2009   "The old me might not have known that today was Monday."

October 20th 2009   "Structure in the vegetable garden appears in my mind as.."

October 21st 2009   "The word 'authentic', in Heidegger's description of 'being'.."

October 22nd 2009   "It is a wealthy and devoted follower of Jainism that maintains.."

October 23rd 2009   "I recall the first Phoebe I saw."

October 24th 2009   "The old me wrote lists."

October 25th 2009   "In my mind the geometry of "being" is described..."

October 26th 2009   "The Bluebird population here is attempting to flock."

October 27th 2009   "Turned earth that has been raked into tilth presents a brief..."

October 28th 2009   "Sometimes I feel the word career should be expunged.."

October 29th 2009   "The Close Mockingbird wakes at dawn."

October 30th 2009   "While building this structure I wanted to call it a berme."

October 31st 2009   "I got the squint this morning."

 

November 2009

 

November  1st 2009  "Huge problem in the vegetable garden emerging from a..."

November  2nd 2009  "In the warmer climate, Asparagus is transplanted in Fall."

November  3rd 2009  "Remarkable shine in the faces of citizens today in town."

November  4th 2009  "I have met the master of that art form sometimes referred.."

November  5th 2009  "For several weeks resident school masters built a bonfire."

November  6th 2009  "I could call them a Trinity, but that title appears reserved.."

November  7th 2009  "A new garden bed is adventure."

November  8th 2009  "Past people on this land have left marks."

November  9th 2009  "Ground Elder is a plant that can quickly dominate."

November 10th 2009  "It was I believe Aristotle who began to put order into the naming.."

November 11th 2009  "Euonymus Alatus, or Winged Euonymus, or Burning Bush, or Spindle.."

November 12th 2009  "There is a phenomenon on Chalk Downs called a dew pond."

November 13th 2009  "Miracle Mole traps have claimed zero moles..."

November 14th 2009  "I have always understood why French language purists objected.."

November 15th 2009  "Sunday in the European tradition is the sun's day."

November 16th 2009  "Some part of me on Midsummer Day decides that winter has..."

November 17th 2009  "My own relationship with the calendar most likely reflects.."

November 18th 2009  "Depending upon how the beds are counted, the gravel bed..."

November 19th 2009  "It has been a good year for most amphibians."

November 20th 2009  "Can't pretend I am a big fan of getting up in the middle.."

November 21st 2009  "Amongst an increasing majority this place I live belongs to.."

November 22nd 2009  "Some years ago I started to keep my glasses on a cord looped...."

November 23rd 2009  "The old me was inclined to plant things too close together."

November 24th 2009  "I suspect that I spend more time than is healthy thinking about soil."

November 25th 2009  "In Europe, Wrens appear to stay put during seasonal change."

November 26th 2009  "The vegetable garden has Lettuce, Beets, Radish, Fennel....."

November 27th 2009  "Many years ago at a craft show I spent a hot sunny day watching.."

November 28th 2009  "Wonderful Viburnum growing on the edge of the parking lot in what..."

November 29th 2009  "I like to think that the Grey Cat sulks when his..."

November 30th 2009  "I picture it Maxwell Parrish Blue."

November 31st 2009  "The old me circles up there like a vulture, or an eagle, or..."

 

 

December 2009

 

December  2nd 2009  "Not unusual to misplace a day where I live."

December  3rd 2009  "The expression "If you have class" slips easily into a state..."

December  4th 2009  "With respect to engine timing, Maxfield Parrish's mowing machine..."

December  5th 2009  "If our species could be found only in that part of land which.."

December  6th 2009  "Not yet that date which will live in infamy, but close.."

December  7th 2009  "The vegetable garden contains satisfactory gloom."

December  8th 2009  "I have a suspicion Turkey are a little ahead of themselves."

December  9th 2009  "Possibly the Parrish engine has realigned his objectives."

December 10th 2009  "The power cut yesterday continued through the afternoon...."

December 11th 2009  "The Almanac would record 18 degrees Fahrenheit as the sun rose..."

December 12th 2009  "There is tension between the Grey Cat and myself."

December 13th 2009  "I worked once at a petrol station in the City of Cardiff."

December 14th 2009  "Those in our midst who grasp engine wiring are few."

December 15th 2009  "I think in the population of Sandhill Cranes that pass.."

December 16th 2009  "During the absence of his mistress the Grey Cat has.."

December 17th 2009  "I imagine in the community of Coyote there comes a time..."

December 18th 2009  "When the Grey Cat's mistress returned.."

December 19th 2009  "Preoccupation with a black seat for Maxfield Parrish's..."

December 20th 2009  "The idea of winter beginning on December the twenty first..."

December 21st 2009  "While contentment itself is transitory..."

December 22nd 2009  "I am in that sad category of red and blotchy English."

December 23rd 2009  "There is Elfin-kind maneuvering within the domicile and ancillary..."

December 24th 2009  "The Close Mockingbird enjoys these warmer spells of weather.."

December 25th 2009   "Juncos this year are few, but the Phoebe is still apparent. "

December 26th 2009   "The great adventure of a new technical device produces in me a disunity."

December 27th 2009   "I have spent too long in that place the friend who lives too far away calls..."

December 28th 2009   "Can't help but defy the existentialists and wonder......."

December 29th 2009   "There can be few experiences less memorable than a parade of photographs..."

December 30th 2009   "Meanwhile on the eve of a new decade, it is worth recalling..."

December 31st 2009   "I am fairly certain those conditions that might qualify me for "Rapture"...."

 

 

 

January 2010 

 

January  1st 2010     "Weak sunshine after last night's blue moon and the word 'Arctic' ...." 

January  2nd 2010    "I am going to have to go into town today."

January  3rd 2010    "Always depressing when a morning temperature reads in single..."

January  4th 2010     "End Time has clearly been delayed."

January  5th 2010     "The new technical device contains "games"."

January  6th 2010     "More often it is better to ignore those itchy things that crawl......"

January  7th 2010     "I remember the 'Coffin Snow'."

January  8th 2010     "The phrase "Cloudy with highs near 17F" does not inspire the Grey Cat."

January  9th 2010     "The Grey Cat's mistress has become like Captain Oates."

January 10th 2010     "Never been able to fully grasp Winter Squash."

January 11th 2010     "I Think, Therefore I Am, puts way too much emphasis on Think." 

January 12th 2010     "In some parts of the world Tuesday is unlucky."

January 13th 2010     "I share the concern that Saran Wrap is the tip of an iceberg....."

January 14th 2010     "Robins spent a good part of yesterday's afternoon providing apoplexy..."

January 15th 2010     "What with the holiday season and a developing antagonism toward days...."

January 16th 2010     "Seed packets for the vegetable garden have arrived."

January 17th 2010     "Malabar Spinach and Asparagus Bean trellis with Wax Gourd climbing...."

January 18th 2010     "After an inch of rain that I thought a warm rain, and a Monday morning..."

January 19th 2010     "We missed out on okra in the garden last year."

January 20th 2010     "Last year a Bush Bean called 'Blue Lake' had a wonderful time..."

January 21st 2010     "Last growing season would have been perfect for Parsnips."

January 22nd 2010    "I have never photographed well."

January 23rd 2010     "A boy House Sparrow spent time anxiously calling from...."

January 24th 2010     "Between here and town are several gardens."

January 25th 2010     "Big snowflakes in town this morning."

January 26th 2010     "I have in my mind a Wax Gourd and Cucumber arbor."

January 27th 2010     "The weather event predicted to arrive at the end of this week..."

January 28th 2010     "There are ghosts in memory."

January 29th 2010     "I often think Crows just enjoy chasing bigger birds."

January 30th 2010     "After snow deep enough to shovel and a forecast of one degree..."

January 31st 2010     " Tomorrow I take red blotches on pink skin to the funeral parlor..."

 

 

February 2010

 

February  1st 2010     "The calendar for this coming year will include celebration of Summer Solstice."

February  2nd 2010    "The phrase "enlightened self interest" might well be a clarion call..."

February  3rd 2010     "Here on February the third I recall the question why."

February  4th 2010      Images of Yesterday

February  5th 2010      Images of Yesterday

February  6th 2010      Drawings by JHC

February  7th 2010      "Many years ago in the Sinai I woke up to a chilly morning..."

February  8th 2010      "When a loud voice directed me to, 'Put the suitcase in the boot!'"

February  9th 2010      "Today is cold and getting colder."

February 10th 2010      "Our leaning wall  toppled as a result of poor foundation."

February 11th 2010      "The men in sunglasses had a shallow opinion of us."

February 12th 2010      "In Kentucky it's the day to count birds."

February 13th 2010      "Our wall never looked quite right."

February 14th 2010      "I think some weeks ago I came to a conclusion that weather forecast...."

February 15th 2010      "The US dollar was once the currency of choice in that world......."

February 16th 2010      "I have recently been sent some photographs which apparently..."

February 17th 2010      "The Grey Cat's mistress reckons that March is worse than...."

February 18th 2010      "These pictures belong to an idyll that is real...."

February 19th 2010      "Our pair waddled around the perimeter through conditions..."

February 20th 2010      "The Osprey or Barn Owl that has graced us with a ghostly.."

February 21st 2010      "I will not say it felt like Spring this morning because I have..."

February 22nd 2010     "The Barred Owl is described as: "A large gray-brown, puffy-headed woodland owl.""

February 23rd 2010     "Mr. Peterson, in the fifth edition of his Field Guide to the Birds...."

February 24th 2010     "The analogy of Human Being as radio and Heidegger's..."

February 25th 2010     "During the recent blissful interlude we saw two frogs....."

February 26th 2010     "I've got the old man sniffle."

February 27th 2010      " "It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth." "

February 28th 2010     "On Wednesday I go to get my fingerprints taken."

 

 

March

 

March  1st 2010        "Rabbit, Rabbit,  inoculates against the sincerity of the Easter season, as does chocolate."

March  2nd 2010       "It has often been explained to me that there are things...."

March  3rd 2010        "Sometimes a good idea to get out of bed long before daybreak..."

March  4th 2010        "Sunshine in the morning and tufts of white visible from the backdoor...."

March  5th 2010        "This date is an anniversary."

March  6th 2010        "Potato rains in store for us, and yesterday at the hardware store...."

March  7th 2010        "The seed of a Wax Gourd requires a temperature in the region of 80......"

March  8th 2010        "Wisdom from distant hills plants Spinach in good time for potato rains...."

March  9th 2010        "Echelons of Sandhill Crane passing on their way North. "

March 10th 2010       "Trees will soon arrive through the UPS."

March 11th 2010       "The Close Mockingbird is chortling."

March 12th 2010       "I have checked the rain gauge for leaks."

March 13th 2010       "Mole conferences are irregular subterranean affairs."

March 14th 2010       "Seed Potato arriving by the UPS on Monday."

March 15th 2010       "The question when to start seeds would be easier to answer...."

March 16th 2010       "Seeds of hot weather vegetables have entered the germination zone."

March 17th 2010       "Would be a perfect day to plant potato, but ground..."

March 18th 2010       "Meadowlarks in full fettle."

March 19th 2010       "Towhee, always a harbinger."

March 20th 2010       "This time last year Forsythia was in bloom and the Close Mockingbird..."

March 21st 2010       "Tending toward dryness and soil is still chilly despite warmth..."

March 22nd 2010      "There must have been a greater cold these past months of winter..."

March 23rd 2010       "The bloom of Flowering Quince is running late."

March 24th 2010       "Thrashers when I first saw them twenty four years ago....."

March 25th 2010       "I know with a certainty the first potato I planted was Desiree."

March 26th 2010       "I should probably take the deep breath and risk checking the mail in town."

March 27th 2010       "The Close Mockingbird has in his repertoire the call of Meadowlarks."

March 28th 2010       "The Tyrant Pericles figured as a model for Plato's "Men of Gold"."

March 29th 2010       "I have to wonder why there is no retirement age for a Supreme Court......"

March 30th 2010       "I suspect my capacity to retain information is diminishing."

March 31st 2010        "Never completely certain why this last day in March is Hedgehog Day."

 

April

 

April  1st 2010          "The worst place to be on April Fools Day is boarding school."

April  2nd 2010         "Tree Swallow sighting midmorning."

April  3rd 2010          "There is in my view a magnificence to philosophers."

April  4th 2010          "First Spring is a turn of the season...."

April  5th 2010          "This time next week I go for interview."

April  6th 2010          "Currently it is hot with dry wind, and the next chance for rain...."

April  7th 2010          "Beginning to think I should assess the relationship I have with arrogance."

April  8th 2010          "On some accounts, ancestors dwelled in forest......."

April  9th 2010          "Multi-flora Rose and Wisteria are in many parts considered menace...."

April 10th 2010         "Odd to think of today as the 100th day of the year."

April 11th 2010         "Thrashers in my experience of them have tended to remain secretive."

April 12th 2010         "In the analysis of "being as slope in a random place" there is an assertion of randomness."

April 13th 2010         "Yesterday the question why was never broached."

April 14th 2010         "Methodical plodding, complicated contraptions to provide warmth and..."

April 15th 2010         "Traumatic morning spent thinning seedlings.

April 16th 2010         "Soil is developing a bone dry from want of good rain."

April 17th 2010         "Those characteristics of the Close Mockingbird that have put him..."

April 18th 2010         "The old me probably would have reacted poorly to frost this morning."

April 19th 2010         "Time spent spring cleaning the room where I sleep reveals qualities..."

April 20th 2010         "I have heard that Columbine is poisonous even though his flowers taste sweet."

April 21st 2010         "Locally heavy rain, gusty winds, and hail are always possible this time of the year."

April 22nd 2010        "The relationship between Lilac bloom and the Hoppy Bug falls often...."

April 23rd 2010        "Hosta are sometimes called Plantain Lily."

April 24th 2010         "Hoppy Bug greeted the afternoon with an enthusiasm reserved for gourmands."

April 25th 2010         "Two Not Cherry Tomato seedlings have their roots in the earth."

April 26th 2010         "In those plans I make for next year there will be a large red asterisk....."

April 27th 2010         "Fresh air and one more inch of rain has put Privet in a mood to bloom."

April 28th 2010         "Summer Tanager may have arrived....."

April 29th 2010         "Some of us have been remarkably diligent with labeling this year."

April 30th 2010         "Mostly it is others that provide comparisons."

 

May

 

May  1st 2010          "Arthurian legends contain journey toward perfection through behavior and purpose."

May  2nd 2010         "The old saying is that Clematis likes a cold foot."

May  3rd  2010         "Nine weeks of rain in an afternoon has struck the Vegetable Garden."

May  4th  2010         "When Moses first suggested the ten commandments to...."

May  5th 2010          "Ominous, is the word we non-smokers reference during times of stress."

May  6th 2010          "It is Rosa Ragusa that smells so fine........"

May  7th 2010          "Well known that for those of us who become non-smokers later in life....."

May  8th 2010          "Those dreams of empire which have resulted in an expansion of Vegetable Garden territory.."

May  9th 2010          "Patchy Frost begins to sound like a character in opera....."

May 10th 2010         "I have the jaws of a Neanderthal from a week of chewing nicotine gum."

May 11th 2010         "The walled garden functions in those places that are swept by cold..."

May 12th 2010         "Easy enough to tangent into the political realm while prostrate in the dentist chair."

May 13th 2010         "Partly sunny with a high of eighty six Fahrenheit and last night...."

May 14th 2010         "If my species stood about one inch high....."

May 15th 2010         "Ticks have dignity, I suppose."

May 16th 2010         "I should find physical work soon, otherwise..."

May 17th 2010         "The "Uncertainty Principle" from physics when put to good use....."

May 18th 2010         "We've had a good year for Spinach."

May 19th 2010         "Great moments seldom intercede in the day to day."

May 20th 2010         "This year, two Not Cherry Tomato plants managed....."

May 21st 2010         "I could ramble on about how the expression "under god"...."

May 22nd 2010        "Large snail with shell feeding in the cold-frame."

May 23rd 2010        "Transcending these few remaining weeks before Summer Solstice....."

May 24th 2010        "Idea and the real are often in conflict."

May 25th 2010        "Some of us turn to the making of chairs during times of stress."

May 26th 2010        "Tantalizing glimpse of Wax Gourd emerging."

May 27th 2010        "The Close Mockingbird has his summer plumage."

May 28th 2010        "A revel in the misery of others, as often I do, can lack dignity."

May 29th 2010        "In my mind psalms are poems that mostly repress angst with words."

May 30th 2010        "I might understand Strawberry Aggression."

May 31st 2010        "Probably it is crude oil on the feathers of Brown Pelican six hundred...."

 

 

June

 

June  1st 2010        Can't recall this time last year with great clarity.

June  2nd 2010       In the expression "hard-wired to believe in a higher power".....

June  3rd 2010       Now that we are alone again, the Grey Cat and I managed nineteen hours of reasonableness.

June  4th 2010        Barn Swallows have fledged.

June  5th 2010        Hadn't seen the creature responsible for damage to bean sprouts in the vegetable garden.

June  6th 2010        A mostly blissful morning under cloudy sky spent fondling Eggplant.

June  7th 2010        Strange that the devil lives underground.....

June  8th 2010        Surrendered to large quantities of shell pasta......

June  9th 2010        In the quest for hanging fruit, I realize I should have relied upon Asparagus Bean.

June 10th 2010       There is charm in the picture of a Little Rabbit sleeping in shade......

June 11th 2010       The cradle of democracy produced citizens.

June 12th 2010       Some centuries ago an afternoon might have been spent at the public circus.......

June 13th 2010       Meandering through the Vegetable Garden many conclusions are reached.

June 14th 2010      Some years ago I could have reminded myself that high heat impinges......

June 15th 2010      A dastardly gathering of drop and roll Colorado grubs in the south

June 16th 2010      Sad to think of a Beetroot's existence unless he is inanimate.

June 17th 2010      In the matter of plot a phenomenological exploration as expounded........

June 18th 2010      Perennial Border Toads venture into the night where they discover a concrete path.

June 19th 2010      Some of us are getting excited about Summer Solstice.

June 20th 2010      Then there is plot with which to muddle comprehension.

June 21st 2010      Always best not to actually look at the sun, otherwise a morning is spent being chased by large green butterflies.

June 22nd 2010     That travel through time that precedes this moment contains infinite combination of memories, most of which are false.

June 23rd 2010     For a while I will leave the Vegetable Garden to its fate in this hot weather.

June 24th to 28th 2010   The new me behaved adequately.

June 29th 2010     Words of comfort are often found in sentences that place the one under the star of greater being.

June 30th 2010     Since my return the Grey Cat has wandered into the room where I sleep to make loud and demanding noises...

 

 

July

 

July  1st 2010        Not Cherry this year is very unlike last year's Not Cherry.

July  2nd 2010       When a wandering hound lifts its leg to a Candy Roaster growing innocently outside the fence....

July  3rd 2010        In the beginning was the word.

July  4th 2010        It could get dryer.

July  5th 2010        Kingbirds have their children garrulous on the electric line.

July  6th 2010        There is Horn Worm amongst the Peppers.

July  7th 2010        Seventy degrees Fahrenheit at six thirty this morning.

July  8th 2010        An exploration of being begins with isolation.

July  9th 2010        It should always be a rule never to anticipate rain.

July 10th 2010       There are one hundred and twenty eight fluid ounces in a gallon.

July 11th 2010       Ancestors probably did not spend their Sundays, and most likely Mondays,  replacing electric hot water heaters.

July 12th 2010       No dew this morning.

July 13th 2010       Sometimes it is necessary to get new shoes and two new shirts.

July 14th to 22nd 2010     Nine days of wandering in the midst of Kapital.

July 23rd 2010       With luck temperatures will soar into the unbearable heights.....

July 24th 2010        The garden is ravaged by heat and pestilence.

July 25th 2010        Great tension amongst Frogs.

July 26th 2010        Not everyday a person drives to the largest town in his State.

July 27th 2010        Ten Barn Swallows.

July 28th 2010        The better concept is a primordial ooze out of which emerges a structure.

July 29th 2010        Tomato struggles.

July 30th 2010        I have been to Atlanta in Georgia a number of times.

July 31st 2010        The Mole Hunter has taken to the shotgun.

 

August

 

August  4th 2010    Never quite certain what it means when the National Weather Service blandly announces......

August  5th 2010    All places in the world are loved by someone.

August  6th 2010    Frustrations assert themselves with that same insistence possessed by grasses that creep.

August  7th 2010    Suddenly something changes.

August  8th 2010    I'll take photographs of the factory.

August  9th 2010    With the abundance of butterfly, this August clearly offers opportunities.

August 14th 2010   Can't help believing that when true things hurt it is not the time to run.

August 15th 2010   A Wax Gourd has waxiness.

August 16th 2010   The distinction between capital leasing and equipment leasing has been foisted........

August 17th 2010   Morning Glory time.

August 18th 2010   Occasionally a Crow will lose his tail feathers.

August 19th 2010   ......probably Jeremiah...

August 20th 2010   There are some expressions which capture.

August 21st 2010    Cheese School exists here in Kentucky, and I have dreamed of Camembert, Stilton and steam kettles.

August 22nd 2010   Professionals tell me a cow needs to be milked twice a day or the milk goes away.

August 23rd 2010   I think I am permitted to express this opinion because......

August 24th 2010    I sometimes think a square is a more comprehensible shape than a circle.

August 25th 2010    A clan of yellow tailed Wasp amongst the Lilac.

August 26th 2010    Wonderland of blight in the Potatoes.

August 27th 2010   The fiction writer and the expert in memory share plot as their means to an end.

August 28th 2010   Malabar Spinach does appear to thoroughly enjoy what for me are adverse weather conditions.

August 29th 2010   From Washington Township in Kansas to Fredonia in Kansas.....

August 30th 2010   Lumpen references the dispossessed and the boorish.

August 31st 2010   Always a cruel joy when two minds become as one with respect to a mole barrier.

 

September

 

September  1st 2010     When his Swedes turn to soup then desiccate a wiser man might consider.......

September  2nd 2010    Rabindranath Tagore fretted about democracy in his homeland of India.

September  3rd 2010    September third is Idiot Day.

September  4th 2010    The prettiness of the day marred by a dangerous blue sky  and a stubborn breeze.

September  5th 2010    The trip to town on this "holiday weekend" is a necessary one.

September  6th 2010    Digging season begins.

September  7th 2010    That devil incarnate the White Tail Deer is not going to get the better of me.

September  8th 2010    While some are persuading themselves that Deer meat could be perfect food.

September  9th 2010    I will probably spend the remainder of my days tidying the barn.

September 10th 2010   There is a small gas engine in the barn that goes back to the early nineties.

September 11th 2010    Rain in the amount of two and a quarter inches.

September 12th 2010   A morning of controlled flames under blue sky and northerly breeze.

September 13th 2010   Sad to see Buddleia on Kentucky's list of suspicious characters.

September 14th 2010   Malabar Spinach and Wax Gourd.

September 15th 2010   I have to give the title Close Mockingbird back to place......

September 16th 2010   Could be the Cotswold's outside today.

September 17th 2010   Next few days are forecast, and there is a dry spell in store for us with temperatures high in the eighties.

September 18th 2010   A little dangerous to venture outside.

September 19th 2010   My own artist was brutally attacked by Turkey Mite while hunting Pawpaw this year.

September 20th 2010   We are going to get two Elm Trees.

September 21st 2010   The Pretender has I suppose youth on his side.

September 22nd 2010  Autumnal Equinox.

September 23rd 2010   These past years, the Close Mockingbird has occupied those parts of my mind that function in the.....

September 24th 2010   Odd thing about Hardware Stores, one trip is never enough.

September 25th 2010   Strawberry have hung on through heat and drought.

September 26th 2010   Almost hunted down the long trousers.

September 27th 2010   A keen eyed Mole Hunter spotted the snake amongst Sweet Potato Vines.

September 28th 2010   Too many diversions into "Why didn't I".

September 29th 2010   Circles and straight lines have perhaps filled the mind with considerable nonsense.

September 30th 2010   Short Billed Rail last week in the Vegetable Garden.

 

October

 

October  1st 2010     My own Artist, as her season ends, proceeds to the Doodle-Bug pits .......

October  2nd 2010    The eyesight benefits apparently from Carrots.

October  3rd 2010     The great hedges belong to those landscapes that predate wire fencing.

October  4th 2010     There is agreement from me that an infinity of circles......

October  5th 2010     I'd call tonight's forecasted frost, an early frost.

October  6th 2010    Trouble in the garden.

October  7th 2010     It is a little like the Sinai out there.

October  8th 2010     No rain into the future.

October  9th 2010     The aberrant frost of some days past will today be placed beside an anticipated high...

October 10th 2010    Moral support for the Close Mockingbird is a necessary behavior from subjects

October 11th 2010    There is a yard of earth which generally is conceptualized as a three foot cube.

October 12th 2010    A person should never mess with an appearance.

October 13th 2010    I can see it now.

October 14th 2010    The straight line that Route 47 mimics, follows a curve in the earth.

October 15th 2010    Scissor Tailed Flycatchers are collectors.

October 16th 2010    Route 47 cannot be reached through straightforwardness.

October 17th 2010    Can't pretend "Onion Weather" has no virtue.

October 18th 2010    Fieldfares are European birds in the family of Thrushes.

October 19th 2010    Tangent to the day to day is a preoccupation with that odd bird briefly seen last springtime and again some days ago.

October 20th 2010    The traveling bag these days includes wires.

October 21st 2010    "In the beginning there was movement-ness.  And movement-ness was an infinitely straight line". 

October 22nd 2010   Irritating drifts kept ruffling land, so the infinite regressed  into increase of irritation.

October 24th 2010    A Scissor Tailed Flycatcher does not like it when a passing vehicle suddenly stops.

October 25th 2010    For several years now the Artist has been sitting upon the machine that washes clothes...

October 26th 2010    Sometimes the idea of a thing is greater than the real of a thing.

October 27th 2010    Sweet rain accompanied by angry wind distressed the Grey Cat's routine.

October 28th 2010    Travel with The Artist was years ago a toothbrush a change of clothes and an assortment of shoes.

October 29th 2010     There are different ghosts in hillsides.

October 30th 2010     Way too much fresh air beside the sea.

October 31st 2010     An enthusiastic wind.

 

November

 

November  1st 2010    I have lived a long time believing the Common Grackle has the name....

November  2nd 2010   Heidegger reckoned to understand thinking by first exploring thinking through....

November  3rd 2010   The oldest recorded Brown Pelican was forty three years old when he died. 

November  4th 2010    A walk through woodland and sand to reach the possibility of creatures that chase fish.

November  5th 2010    Sanderlings have the black legs.....

November  7th 2010    The best part of being home is the glass of water.

November  8th 2010    I have ground to prepare for seven trees.

November  9th 2010    Socks are increasingly relevant to morning routine.

November 10th 2010   Mental lethargy perhaps.

November 11th 2010   The National Weather Service describes our degree of drought

November 12th 2010   Ancients called Apricots  "Early Fruits of the Sun".

November 13th 2010   Unfortunate when a keyboard begins to lose its letters.....

November 14th 2010   Came as a surprise to discover Ayn Rand and Salman Rushdie

November 15th 2010   There was a strange mist and a light frost this morning.

November 16th 2010   Cold Kentucky Rain, which I think is the name of a song, and I have a midday appointment.

November 17th 2010   One more attack upon red blotchiness.

November 18th 2010   In a little over a month is Winter Solstice.

November 19th 2010   Difficult to know how to treat an empty bed.

November 20th 2010   Often see a Squirrel apparently diligent with a nut in his mouth.  Blue Jays, too.

November 21st 2010   Have to wonder sometimes why a major part of  the holiday season is Turkey.

November 22nd 2010  Seventy three degrees Fahrenheit.

November 23rd 2010  A struggle to know what to do for Winter Solstice this year.

November 24th 2010   Packaging is without doubt some sort of  plot to reduce life expectancy.

November 25th 2010   Twenty minutes a pound stuffed is a sad fate for creatures that once could fly.

November 26th 2010   I think this year Winter Solstice will be celebrated in the following manner.

November 27th 2010   I thought indoors very chilly, felt the shivers, thought my toes would fall off,

November 28th 2010   A suspicious fog toward the river.

November 29th 2010   Winter Solstice this year requires a line and a circle.

November 30th 2010   The dead something in the barn, now smells oddly familiar.

 

December

December  1st 2010     Good rain, but too late for the polite grasses to take best advantage of. 

December  2nd 2010    The Grey Cat spends his day and most of his night watching me.

December  3rd 2010    These two little buggers are Northern Harriers.

December  4th 2010     Nineteen degrees Fahrenheit has been forecast for Sunday night....

December  5th 2010     Easy to remember the moments of Winter Solstice past, but harder to remember how cold it can be.

December  6th 2010     Deer hoof and slipper print in the perennial border this morning...

December  7th 2010     A little stressed over how to transcribe a line and a circle for Winter Solstice.

December  8th 2010     The one part of the telephone is a mobile unit that has no wire attached to it.

December  9th 2010     Flat battery in the one vehicle, flat tire on the other.

December 10th 2010    This is not the first time I might have killed something during the Artist's absence...

December 11th 2010    Next year there will be Wax Gourd climbing the arch.

December 12th 2010    Some years ago we had an ice storm here in Kentucky

December 13th 2010    The point about a snow day is essentially this...

December 14th 2010    I noticed on the news that Mistletoe in the United Kingdom is in decline.

December 15th 2010    There will be narrative in the next few days.

December 16th 2010    The Grey Cat takes to my bed during those periods when weather outside is unpleasant.

December 17th 2010    Some of us discovered rain gutter ice.

December 18th 2010    Such a shame Captain Beefheart did not make it past Winter Solstice.

December 19th 2010    A practice toss of two Potato Rocks produced some confusion in those watching.

December 20th 2010    Last night the moon was strong in the sky.

December 21st 2010    Rain and heavy cloud gave imagination its opportunity to flourish.

December 22nd 2010   One Potato Rock tossed into space, produced the center of the circle.

December 23rd 2010   When I was little, around this time of year, a shrub would be culled,

December 24th 2010    The best Christmas Eve is a drunken Christmas Eve,

December 25th 2010    flight and snow

December 26th 2010    The Grey Cat trudges around.

December 27th 2010    I wonder how Father Christmas feels in the week that follows his big day.

December 28th 2010    If you have been hit on the head once too often....

December 29th 2010    A look at the date is sometimes helpful.

December 30th 2010     Rain warm enough to melt snow.....

December 31st 2010    On the radio this morning an older caller threatened the host with "Phone-Calls, Emails and Twitters."

 

January 2011

January  1st 2011       Woke to the idea today was Sunday.

January  2nd 2011      The well pump is busy today.

January  3rd 2011       I wish I could be more convinced by those who see May 21st, 2011 as the End of Times.

January  4th 2011       Coyote last night to the east. 

January  5th 2011       If I am forced to go to town I pass a field where Meadow Larks often can be seen...

January  6th 2011       Creative Is, and it's hard when the eyes of others ask questions

January  7th 2011       I took the long way.

January  8th 2011       Passed through Newt and Crail Hope on the way home.

January  9th 2011       The New Me bounces out of bed in the morning, skips down stairs....

January 10th 2011      The word "Bleak" is gone from the vocabulary.

January 11th 2011      This time last year water pipes to the kitchen were frozen.

January 12th 2011      I sense a progress in my thinking, but the "Am I Still Here" side......

January 13th 2011      Cool, wet weather isn't good for American Sycamore Trees.

January 14th 2011      I think his feathers where too white for a Barred Owl.

January 15th 2011      A little concerned about the Close Mockingbird.

January 16th 2011      Temperatures soaring into the thirties.

January 17th 2011      Catalogs are organizational tools.

January 18th 2011      In March Grosbeaks will visit on their way North.

January 19th 2011      Cardinals become ardent quickly.

January 20th 2011      I imagine the ancestors, because they lived closer to the outside....

January 21st 2011      Some of us are feeling rather stupid this morning.

January 22nd 2011     I am quite certain everyone has heard of the Prophet Hen of Leeds.

January 23rd 2011     The Dying Sycamore tree is a good perch for those who like to look around.

January 24th 2011     This time last year there was digging.

January 25th 2011     Today I will explore the room where I sleep,

January 26th 2011     Not certain what this snow is called.

January 27th 2011     Creative Is.   And probably it contains grammatical error

January 28th 2011     Next Friday I have to decide whether to continue with this.......

January 29th 2011     There are three theories.

January 30th 2011     When Starlings cut away from the winter flock to inspect a Bluebird box,

January 31st 2011     A little sunshine.

 

 

February 2011

February  1st 2011     Thirty five degrees Fahrenheit at four thirty this morning in Louisville, Kentucky.

February  2nd 2011    My own mental gatekeeper is daydreaming and lax.

February  3rd 2011     Either way, I reckon on six more weeks of winter....

February  4th 2011     If I could find my glasses I wouldn't have to sit here with my nose two inches from the board.

February  5th 2011     Meaning from mathematics always appears truer than meaning from language.

February  6th 2011     I'll call it 'something else', because the word 'tubules' contains a suggestion of  blockage and decline.

February  7th 2011     I have fallen to temptation......

February  8th 2011     There is a place called Oymyakon.

February  9th 2011     The big excitement is Blue Lake Bush Bean seeds.

February 10th 2011    The Southern Mockingbird has his eye on the Vegetable Garden already.

February 11th 2011    Single digits on a thermometer still impress me.

February 12th 2011    I look forward to the "Singularity".

February 13th 2011    The Close Mockingbird has not coughed since we chased off the Southern Mockingbird.

February 14th 2011    As one who sometimes sees angels I knew exactly why Saint Valentine was removed....

February 15th 2011    I'll have to go to town today.    

February 16th 2011    Twelve Sandhill Cranes circling, and last night I saw a ring around the moon.

February 17th 2011    The Spring Peeper sang last night.

February 18th 2011    I have Black Seed Long Bean.

February 19th 2011    Sixty Nine degrees Fahrenheit on the porch.

February 20th 2011    The Close Mockingbird is fit again.

February 21st 2011    I counted five Black Vultures.

February 22nd 2011   A few toenail clippings need to be chased down.

February 23rd 2011   Around midnight at the airport the temperature was 33F.

February 24th 2011    Some Parsnips go bad.

February 25th 2011   Heard freight trains, and whistling, and thunder and saw lightning.

February 26th 2011   Yep!  The growing season is soon.

February 27th 2011   Could have something to do with the directions to "tilt head.....

February 28th 2011   A cold front over warm air brings tornado warnings and good television.

 

March

March  1st 2011      Always tricky to think about rain, but March and April need rain.

March  2nd 2011     Lately I have contributed to this journal in the first hours of the day.

March  3rd 2011     I'll plant Spinach today.

March  4th 2011     The new sun hat has a strap to keep it attached to the head......

March  5th 2011     The "Aquatic Ape Hypothesis" proposes that ancestors of modern humans.... 

March  6th 2011     Broad Beans.

March  7th 2011     I caught glimpses of a preamble to seed germinating.

March  8th 2011     This year Sandhill Cranes flew north earlier than they did last year.

March  9th 2011     There are thirteen divisions in the family of Narcissus.

March 10th 2011    The New Me is forbidden to give weather a quality.

March 11th 2011    Bluebirds are cooing at each other.

March 12th 2011    Mowing machines sit there with flat tires and cold engines.

March 13th 2011    There is a boy Phoebe around Barn Swallow nests.

March 14th 2011    There are the big plants.

March 15th 2011    Following the Second World War, Japanese people.......

March 16th 2011    Turkey wandering the savannah...

March 17th 2011    Always difficult to think about Potato when ground is just this side of swamp.

March 18th 2011    Temperatures into the low eighties.

March 19th 2011    Not certain, this morning, how confident I am in the  "tidy/untidy nest theory". 

March 20th 2011    Two percent of birds are polyandrous......

March 21st 2011     For a long time I thought 'vernal' contained something vulgar....

March 22nd 2011    Got the sense the Close Mockingbird was wooing a Brown Thrasher.

March 23rd 2011    Meadow Larks have their nest on the edge of the field,

March 24th 2011    The odds are, in a million years time my species will be extinct.

March 25th 2011    The Germinator has had tremendous success.

March 26th 2011    There is apparently a thing called a 'modem'........

March 27th 2011    A cautious man would always carry a spare modem....

March 28th 2011    I have the sense it might be too hot for Broad Beans

March 29th 2011    The Black Hole of Calcutta measured 18 feet by 14 feet.

March 30th 2011    Degrees of reliable-ness are usually associated with what a person.....

March 31st 2011    Duality upsets philosophers primarily because they do not believe we are robots.

 

April

April  1st 2011       Dread April frosts, and to have one on the morning of April Fools....

April  2nd 2011     The newer modem is more like a Christmas tree than the old modem.

April  3rd 2011      Ten days ago I was wearing the short trousers and beyond the glare of my blotchy..

April  4th 2011      A garden can never get enough compost.

April  5th 2011      Onion sets.

April  6th 2011      Yesterday I removed a giant piece of oak

April  7th 2011      Two months ago I was hibernating.

April  8th 2011      Never have liked the word 'hummer'.

April  9th 2011      Yesterday a large Buzzard hit the windshield of The Artist's...

April 10th 2011     There is a good reason for the wise to relish peer review.

April 11th 2011     Seventy degrees at seven O'clock this morning, a Hummingbird....

April 12th 2011    The New Me does not moan when it rains all afternoon......

April 13th 2011    Tension mounts as seedlings establish themselves in their pots....

April 14th 2011    A day that achieves perfection.

April 15th 2011    Soil can sometimes look right, then down comes.....

April 16th 2011    This Tuesday is Tomato seedling planting day.

April 17th 2011    There are those who dwell upon hills and those who dwell in hollows.

April 18th 2011    The house is an old house.

April 19th 2011    Challenging statements from the National Weather Service........

April 20th 2011    Definitely time for Bean seeds.

April 21st 2011    Always disquieting to find a large nest and a skull under floorboards.

April 22nd 2011   Tyrant Flycatchers, sometimes called Kingbirds, along the fence.

April 23rd 2011    Long cold fronts and longer warm fronts clash at night causing.....

April 24th 2011    The National Weather Service in Louisville was busy again last night.

April 25th 2011    Lifting floor boards humbles a person.

April 26th 2011    Maybe tomorrow I can plant Beans and maybe tomorrow....

April 27th 2011    Plant two seeds every four inches.

April 28th 2011    I think I might have to start shooting Cowbirds.

April 29th 2011    This is the day for ground to dry ready for Bean planting tomorrow.

April 30th 2011    It's the Southern Mockingbird that occupies him most,

 

May

May  1st 2011     Yesterday was "Peak Gardening Day." 

May  2nd 2011    There is a Turkey in the big field.

May  3rd 2011     One year ago, eight and a half inches of rain fell.

May  4th 2011     Patchy Frost sounds like a character, and in a sense he is.

May  5th 2011     Well he came, and thirty eight degrees Fahrenheit on the porch.

May  6th 2011     There is a Princess Tree down the slope in that part of land The Artist calls Robina Wood.

May  7th 2011     For myself I am happy the Close Mockingbird is not an Elephant

May  8th 2011     This old house is not square.

May  9th 2011     Weeks and weeks of time spent in preparation for Winter Solstice...

May 10th 2011    I can almost hear the venerable bed discussing their future with Bean Sprouts.

May 11th 2011    The 'pursuit of happiness' might include the bank robber successfully raiding....

May 12th 2011    There is a sprout amongst Broad Bean.

May 13th 2011    Not a big fan of the color pink....

May 14th 2011    I suppose it is a sloshing around in excess that results......

May 15th 2011    Chilly days in store for Wax Gourd.

May 16th 2011    I imagine the ancestors would have smelled the air this morning.....

May 17th 2011    There are some who take a particular pleasure in holding a secret.

May 18th 2011    It is probably the case that dizziness is an ear complaint.

May 19th 2011    I have long been aware that I suffer from an unpleasant nature.

May 20th 2011    As I understand it tomorrow first happens somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

May 21st 2011    Not really surprised to find The Artist downstairs this morning...

May 22nd 2011   There is uncertainty in my world.

May 23rd 2011    The big excitement for some of us is Summer Solstice.

May 24th 2011    I am increasingly absorbed by a leak in a north facing door.

May 25th 2011    Summer Tanager is not yet omnipresent....

May 26th 2011    Delivery of lumber is always excitement and telephone calls.

May 27th 2011    This would have been the day to introduce Eggplant Seedlings to their summer home.

May 28th 2011    I have seen the Mockingbird tease the Grey Cat, and my nerves.....

May 29th 2011    Very pretty days but Broad Beans are unhappy and why.....

May 30th 2011    I wonder if Rabbits can pole vault or climb.

May 31st 2011    When I was little I never liked to wear a shirt.

 

June 2011

June  1st 2011      I don't think My Old Friend raised children last year.

June  2nd 2011     Down the road, the younger man was tilling his vegetable patch.

June  3rd 2011     Took the long way into the Big Town.

June  4th 2011      The Cedar Mockingbird - the one that I believe spent winter coughing....

June  5th 2011      Very certain there is a Horn Worm in the Tomato.

June  6th 2011      Last Monday was "Spring Bank Holiday" in the United Kingdom, and....

June  7th 2011      There is a mood in the world of psychology and politics which offers

June  8th 2011      Five Barn Swallows fledged yesterday morning.

June  9th 2011      Heat factor these past few days has generated a fear of outdoors.

June 10th 2011     One of the signs of obsessive personality.....

June 11th 2011     Possibly the most ludicrous utterance I have recently.....

June 12th 2011     I have made the compromise with peer pressure.

June 13th 2011     Critical to mental health is a sense of self, a sense of worthiness and....

June 14th 2011     The Grey cat is gone.

June 15th 2011     The first rain followed a path south and the second rain...

June 16th 2011     Traditionally in the species I belong to scarcity of resource

June 17th 2011      "Primordial ooze"  is amongst one of my more favorite expressions.

June 18th 2011     Good rain.

June 19th 2011     Parrots, or something like them not far from here.

June 20th 2011     17.16 tomorrow UT, sometimes called Zulu......

June 21st 2011     Big time preparation, could be the technical expression.

June 22nd 2011    God himself appeared in the guise of a low flying airplane.

June 23rd 2011    The ability to stubbornly insist is one I hold dear.

June 24th 2011     On such a clean crisp day the time has come...

June 25th 2011     Glastonbury 2011 was on the TV.

June 26th 2011     I have found that when I pretend to be a Japanese Beetle...

June 27th 2011     Mockingbird Territories for the summer of 2011.

June 28th 2011     These are the long days, adjusted occasionally by......

June 29th 2011     I have been asked to participate more in the process of actually...

June 30th 2011     By July of last year the first bloom of Long Beans had set...

 

 

July 2011

July  1st 2011       I do not pop from the toaster in the morning.

July  2nd 2011     There is a good reason why the nest of a Turkey Hen.....

July  3rd 2011      Goldfinch get excited about Sunflowers.

July  4th 2011      When I was much younger it was sometimes possible....

July  5th 2011      There are three Wax Gourd vines in the Vegetable Garden.

July  6th 2011      Stinkbugs suck on things.

July  7th 2011      First Beans from Bush Beans a Gardener comes firmly

July  8th 2011      While attempting to conceptualize the infinite straight line

July  9th 2011      One of the reasons I have to go to town soon is....

July 10th 2011     Today is the big day.

July 11th 2011     It's the same when it's very, very cold.

July 12th 2011     Eighty degrees as the sun rose and humidity high enough.....

July 13th 2011     There are words that begin to grate nerves which is why....

July 14th 2011     Either sunspots or the remote control for the television....

July 15th 2011     As I understand it, a Snake Gourd, if harvested young.....

July 16th 2011     Chat Masala is a combination of Mango powder.....

July 17th 2011     I'll call them "Bunny Issues." 

July 18th 2011     The more important point, and the one I have huge difficulty admitting to... 

July 19th 2011     For those gardeners un-tempered by the bucolic....

July 20th 2011     I again feel it necessary to delineate my understanding of the colors blue...

July 21st 2011     A lone male Barn Swallow will sometimes kill the nestlings...

July 22nd 2011   Gum of some sort on the glasses.

July 23rd 2011    When God decided he wanted to be noticed he first tried winter....

July 24th 2011     Don't expect a willing Gardener to banjacks.

July 25th 2011     Five months to wait for a Christmas present .....

July 26th 2011     Twenty four hours later I have what I believe is a sealed glass jar...

July 27th 2011     When you both get the shock, she doesn't have to...

July 28th 2011     Hornet or Wasp or something that bites with its tail. 

July 29th 2011     This year in the barn, two Barn Swallows raised.......

July 30th 2011     I will curse my suddenly aristocratic and delicate feet.

July 31st 2011     Catalogue people are at it again.

 

 

August 2011

August  1st 2011      I have pigtailed ground wires to a series of six electrical...

August  2nd 2011    Triangles are a most awkward and difficult shape.

August  3rd 2011     Don't know what it is about Grey Squirrels, but...

August  4th 2011     All I know is that a Possum takes longer to braise than a Potato,

August  5th 2011     If I lie on my right side I can hear a lonely frog serenade the night....

August  6th 2011     I staggered down the stairs in a rage last night to shout at the Frog.

August  7th 2011     When it is all about me, very difficult to avoid the first person singular.

August  8th 2011     Snake Gourd in Tomato and Green Pepper sauce over rice.

August  9th 2011     When I was young and agile, a condition that deserted me at ten....

August 10th 2011    Mockingbirds have returned from their annual conference, or....

August 11th 2011    For a while I thought the Dove who has her nest in the.....

August 12th 2011    Those where the days.

August 13th 2011    Some call them Bhindi......

August 14th 2011    To the question, I will reply  the purpose of answers is to serve moments.

August 15th 2011    There is in the air an idea of change.

August 16th 2011    Always a worry when Rabbits pretend to be nervous.

August 17th 2011    Tomorrow there will be travelling.

August 21st 2011     I will argue that  Heidegger's carpenter "engrossed in his work,".......

August 22nd 2011   Always an error to reach a conclusion based upon scanty....

August 23rd 2011    The Cedar Mockingbird is molting.

August 24th 2011    I hope the Higgs boson remains undocumented.

August 25th 2011    Ground is dry, dry and dry.

August 26th 2011    It's all in there somewhere.

August 27th 2011    Pawpaw Neck and Turkey Mite season is soon.

August 28th 2011   Someone has been frightening the birds because this morning there was a silence.

August 29th 2011   Chickadees dominating the garden this morning.

August 30th 2011   Some disappointment in the creative world.

August 31st 2011   Wednesday in some traditions is the Fourth Day, in others........

 

September 2011

September  1st 2011     Too easy to say that decimalization reduces nuance and subtlety....

September  2nd 2011    What to do with Wax Gourd.

September  3rd 2011     As I understand it, Wax Gourd is excellent for internal relationships.

September  4th 2011     The one test subject sat down to address 'Wax Gourd

September  5th 2011     Cool weather and rain from the south.

September  6th 2011     Could be that sometimes the ether moves around a body

September  7th 2011     Wiser to dismiss the weather as an incomprehensible  phenomenon.

September  8th 2011     I sometimes take the depression test.

September  9th 2011     Often better to understand an issue by imagining a structure.....

September 10th 2011    Saw a Cuckoo low across the field and I heard the Tanager yesterday.

September 11th 2011    A Doodlebug likes to keep the entryway tidy.

September 12th 2011    There is a theory about Squirrels.....

September 13th 2011    Very concerned for the Cedar Mockingbird.

September 14th 2011    Now that the Grey Cat has gone, Porch Lizards have tails.

September 15th 2011    From our planet, Alpha Centauri looks like a single bright star.

September 16th 2011    Last night Barred Owls again called to each other.

September 17th 2011    Level headed, even minded and determined to remember my telephone number...

September 18th 2011    Accurate counting of Fall Mockingbirds is I think beyond my ability.

September 19th 2011    The object that I call "The Aedicule" and which I describe.....

September 20th 2011    I'll call it Turnip weather.

September 21st 2011    Try as I have, I cannot retreat from the idea of September twenty...

September 22nd 2011   Fall Warblers are the most confusing of flying creatures to identify.

September 23rd 2011    In the end it's all about compost.

September 24th 2011    Slaughter of  elderly Strawberry plants is a September tradition.

September 25th 2011    If one evening God drank too much and then knocked on the... 

September 26th 2011    The idea of the pyramids of Egypt being built by skilled craftsmen and willing labor..

September 27th 2011    I can tell you that on January the first 2012 here in Kentucky.....

September 28th 2011    Sometimes worth remembering that by some accounts Socrates had bulging...

September 29th 2011    There has been diligence in mowing this year.

September 30th 2011    I got the phone call.

 

October 2011

October  1st 2011        The last time bankers suffered the penalty of exuberance a generation...

October  2nd 2011       The optimistic mind saw no frost this morning.

October  3rd 2011        Spelt and Khorasan  planting today

October  4th 2011        Certainly there is an 'invisible hand'.....         

October  5th 2011        Wonder if the Beaker People stared at their Spelt......

October  6th 2011        This year from the Blue Jay community there is a Southward trend.

October  7th 2011        Three and a half pacing days for both kinds of Wheat to sprout.

October  8th 2011        Processional Blue Jays apparently in turmoil.

October  9th 2011        It is possible I am wrong in my understanding of Blue Jays.

October 10th 2011       One immediate consequence of September Eleventh 2001 here....

October 11th 2011       Transient and lay-about Starlings can sometime be mistaken for Cedar Waxwing.

October 12th 2011       When a mind wanders across to the political class always worth remembering two things.

October 13th 2011       I can see it in terms of a social movement in opposition to vested interests...

October 14th 2011       From the "X" on his back, he could be a Peeper....

October 15th 2011       Of the two varieties  of Raspberry, Latham Raspberry have been awkward...

October 16th 2011       Charles Babbage invented the cow-catcher.

October 17th 2011       I think it the case that if ignored small inaccuracies can over time lead....

October 18th 2011       I will vote for an alternate word that gives 'being' less vagueness.

October 19th 2011       Emotions are pundits of mind.

October 20th 2011       Always have liked the word 'cretin'.

October 21st 2011       Two months until Winter Solstice.

October 22nd 2011      This time in two weeks, I might not be here, because.....

October 23rd 2011       Thursday is The Artist's birthday.

October 24th 2011       I have to raise the possibility of moving to newer formats.

October 25th 2011       Certain tension around The Artist's Birthday Gift.

October 26th 2011       Girl Mockingbirds have come to their agreements....

October 27th 2011       As a smart ass myself, I find other smart asses incredibly irritating.

October 28th 2011       There is primal joy to be had from confrontation.

October 29th 2011       Outrageous the Northern Mockingbird snipping at me for frost.....

October 30th 2011       Ladybird in the room where I sleep.

October 31st 2011       A time comes when a mind asks what it was that drove members of my species....

 

November

November  1st 2011      My own understanding has for some years run as follows

November  2nd 2011     Cedar Waxwings on a Cedar.

November  3rd 2011     They play their games with power and those of us with better things...

November  4th 2011      Tomorrow is the big day for me.

November  5th 2011      Guy Fawkes day.

November  6th 2011      Glorious Monday, tomorrow.

November  7th 2011      My own preference would be for an utterance which summed existence...

November  8th 2011      I'd like to think that a Blue Jay flying with nut in beak......

November  9th 2011      Keynes heartily approved of individual decision.

November 10th 2011     The Summer Tanager is long gone.

November 11th 2011     Difficult to be around Poppy Day without venturing toward political...

November 12th 2011     Some of us are a little wiped out from ten hours of gainful employment....

November 13th 2011     It's this sort of bright light at night that leads to tossing

November 14th 2011     There are two members of the Thrush Family where I live.

November 15th 2011     That thing which is me, is a property of matter.

November 16th 2011     There is a Carolina Wren dominating the front porch.

November 17th 2011     Pitch black by six o'clock here last night.

November 18th 2011     Somewhere in the great works is the expression......

November 19th 2011     The Artist battled more wind and leaves.

November 20th 2011     Of the many chores in mail order retail....

November 21st 2011     This Friday is Black Friday followed by the more exotic Cyber Monday.

November 22nd 2011    The word "Class" here in the United States, is mostly reserved.......

November 23rd 2011     I will say, aggression emerges when resource is scarce.

November 24th 2011     Of the many salutations and other offerings....

November 25th 2011     A little frost followed by sunshine.....

November 26th 2011     Difficult to make sense at this time of the evening....

November 28th 2011     I'll blame mental depletion for yesterday's failure.

November 29th 2011     My own view of the competitive spirit is Darwinian.

November 30th 2011     I'll call this Goose Grass, but......

 

December 2011

December  1st 2011        I remember the days when smoking was permitted.....

December  2nd 2011      There was a time in the history of our species when men and women..

December  3rd 2011       It's a fragile mind that wanders across the seven day forecast......

December  4th 2011       Gesture in the social emerged I imagine when we were still four legged and fury.

December  5th 2011       Once stranded in purgatory a mind begins to wonder......

December  6th 2011       The Honeysuckle where I live was I believe introduced......

December  7th 2011       Three Towhee working hard along the Laurels......

December  8th 2011       Wittgenstein, who because of his flip-flopping into the ennui....

December  9th 2011       Could well be a Flax Lily blooming in the billabongs of Australia...

December 10th 2011      I think for me life might be too short to investigate the meaning...

December 11th 2011      Powerlessness is probably a psychological condition.

December 13th 2011      At a certain age much of the night time is spent wandering around...

December 14th 2011      One analysis of Capital describes it as a child of.....

December 15th 2011      I am probably becoming a slug.

December 16th 2011      I have been informed that this year of 2011,  Winter Solstice is 12.30 am.....

December 18th 2011      For those of us who like to look upon the bright side of the great dialectic...

December 19th 2011      There is mood swing and some excitement for those of us.....

December 20th 2011      The infinite straight line maybe conceptualized as endless disagreement.

December 21st 2011      This past year, and I believe all years before, enthusiasm for seed...

December 22nd 2011     I'd like to think the young Redtail has learned the lessons....

December 23rd 2011     The Green Belt Movement in Kenya has planted forty five million....

December 24th 2011      Let out early, and in time to surprise The Artist boiling.....

December 25th 2011      So glad there is no perpetual winter darkness in that part....

December 26th 2011      The Lady Bird wintering in the room where I sleep fell onto...

December 27th 2011      I have a memory of there being snow on the ground this time last year.

December 28th 2011      A cast back sees intense moments which may.....

December 29th 2011      Not long now until the end of the world.

December 30th 2011      Singing ear weather, accompanied by occasional dizziness, spotty.....

December 31st 2011      The last day of 2011 turned out blissful in parts.

 

January 2012

January  1st 2012            Time Space Continuum.

January  2nd 2012           Weeding.

January  3rd 2012           HMS Rattlesnake

January  4th 2012           One meteor a minute.

January  5th 2012           Foucault's Perfection.

January  6th 2012           Flight of Memory.

January  7th 2012           Creeping Grass.

January  8th 2012           blank

January  9th 2012           Inklings.

January 10th 2012          Dusting.

January 11th 2012          Passwords.

January 12th 2012          Physics and Being.

January 13th 2012          Pterosaurs.

January 14th 2012          Trial.

January 15th 2012          Tribbles.

January 16th 2012          Running Beans.

January 17th 2012          Archeological Mystery.

January 18th 2012          The Meek.

January 19th 2012          Rosebuds.

January 20th 2012          Redemption.

January 21st 2012          Copyright.

January 22nd 2012        Apple.

January 23rd 2012         Forgiveness.

January 24th 2012         Giant Blue Smurf.

January 25th 2012         Possum.

January 26th 2012         6B

January 27th 2012         Ladybird Sanctuary.

January 28th 2012         The Church of the Infinite Straight Line.

January 29th 2012         Bloody Merlin

January 30th 2012         Articulated Pest.

January 31st 2012         Thrasher in January.

 

February 2012

February  1st 2012        Synaptic Fault

February  2nd 2012       An Emotional Disturbance.

February  3rd 2012       Cocktails and Caviar.

February  4th 2012       Communion.