A slice of life

This morning's moon is barely there. In its yellow-orange cradle, the old moon can be faintly seen. As the young moon carries the old moon upwards towards the sky, it will all but disappear when the sun rises. It's as stunning in its own right as the full moon was last month.
The owls are out this morning and its warm. The garden has only a few carrots left and a bed for the garlic that should be arriving soon.
It's a beautiful fall day. Too beautiful to think about winter. We are anticipating a nice sheet of ice on our canal. The Missouri River is very high, higher than its been for years.
Last night I read about how with climate change, we should be thinking about the Joseph principal. For those of you who don't know, Joseph was sold into slavery by his brothers after telling them a dream or two about how they were going to bow down to him. Oh you may better remember Joseph as having a technicolor coat. It was a gift from his father, one more reason for his brothers to despise him.
Potiphar's bought Joseph and really liked the work he did until his wife lied about Joseph to her husband, so Potiphar had Joseph put into jail.
While in jail, Joseph interpreted a couple of dreams and word got around. So, when the Pharaoh had a dream about seven skinny cows coming out of the nile and eating the seven fat cows he called on Joseph to interpret.
In the end, Joseph suggested to the Pharaoh that he store up grain from his seven good years to stave off the upcoming seven years of famine. Joseph saved a lot of butts with that particular interpretation.
With the way the weather has been of late and the could continue to drastically change, there are those who would recommend the same type of approach. We are in seven years of rain and it has produced abundance - but it may not last. Okay, so my theory is seven years of rain and then seven years of drought. We all remember what that was like.
And so it's always good advice to put things away to be prepared, like Boy Scouts and good Germans.
I only think about this because my freezer is full of wonderful food gathered all summer long and it tickles my heart to see it - I can't wait to eat the fruits of this summer in the dead of winter. But that's a long way off...

Frosty

According to the Victory Garden seed site, today is the last frost day in Bismarck. Of course, there's a 10 percent chance that there could be frost after this date. So, I will not feel too guilty about not getting my garden ready this weekend. Tonight we are going to meet at the garden site in Mandan. I decided to support that endeavor and plant potatoes and onions in town. I can check on them between work and home and hopefully have an abundance of potatoes for storage this winter. In the meantime, I have tons of plants going in the house and by the weekend, they will be out and then all I have to do is worry about the deer and the bunny -- both of whom I caught sneaking around the yard this morning....bath time.