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Day-Moon – Crow-Moon 2025 Look-Back

Day-Moon – Crow-Moon 2025 Look-Back

Another year, another blog look-back (here are the look-backs from the previous years: 2024, 2023). This year things have been a bit thin around here on daymooncrowmoon.com (which is particularly too bad, considering that this year’s Serial Steam-of-Consciousness Story, ‘Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About’ is my favorite of the SSCSs posted so far, and then I wasn’t around much with proper posts to give it much company, alas, alack!). This thinness would be easy to blame on the fact…

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2025 Writing Progress

2025 Writing Progress

Well, once again it is the time of year when I’d like to post up how my writing progress has gone for the year.  For past years, the posts are at:  2024,  2023. This year I’ve been kind of dreading putting this post together, because 2025 has not been a good writing year for me.  Instead 2025 has been a lot in terms of life events, especially in the first half of the year, and that has translated on the…

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Roses Round-up 2025

Roses Round-up 2025

So! November has come and it is time for the Showing of the Roses! This was a really weird year for my garden.  It started with a positively luxuriously wet spring, wherein simply everything was green.  But that then evolved into the usual Hot and Dry Summer, which was further compounded by my being away and not watering for large swaths of that time.  And then we’ve had an exceptionally mild fall, but I think most of the plants were…

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Day-Moon – Crow-Moon 2024 Look-Back

Day-Moon – Crow-Moon 2024 Look-Back

Well, the New Year is almost upon us, and so it’s time again that I’d like to look back at the year and see what I did with this blog and website in 2024.  I did the same thing last year (which you can see here if you’d like) and, because I am lazy, I think I’ll stick to the same format as last time.  Then, anyone who wants to do a side-by-side comparison of the two years (or am…

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2024 Writing Progress

2024 Writing Progress

Well, once again it is the time of year when I’d like to post up how my writing progress has gone for the year (and, if you’re curious, you can compare this year’s progress update with last year’s here). Progress updates are a funny thing.  They imply a need for quantifiable achievement, and it is definitely true that I do like to tabulate things, probably more than other people would consider healthy (hence, the bottom of this post with my…

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Roses Round-up 2024

Roses Round-up 2024

Alright!  It’s November, which means that (at least theoretically) all of the roses that were going to bloom in my garden have done so, and now I get to show them off.  If it sounds like I’m a kid showing off their Christmas presents, that’s because I do quite love my roses (definitely more than my gardening skills warrant).  These aren’t exactly prize-winning flowers, but I’m going to show them to you anyway! Before I begin, though, I have to…

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Irises Roundup 2024

Irises Roundup 2024

I may have lots and lots of roses (that bloom sometimes), but did you know I also have lots and lots of irises (that bloom sometimes)!  Like roses, irises are decadently beautiful, come in so many colors and varieties, and (traditionally) smell heavenly.  (Also like roses, many of the newer, frillier varieties don’t have very much scent, but so it goes.) The season for irises is shorter than for roses, and also earlier, which means that all of my irises…

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Day-Moon – Crow-Moon 2023 Look-back

Day-Moon – Crow-Moon 2023 Look-back

Happy Solstice! The 2024 new year is coming soon, and with it, I’ll be hitting the 1-year mark of having this blog.  Therefore, for the final, regular (non-weekly-garden) post of the year, I’d like to do a look-back of what I’ve done with this blog over the course of 2023.  When it comes to any sort of hobby, I’m definitely prone to, and enjoy, tabulating the various stuff associated with it.  And so, without further ado: General Accomplishments 1. I…

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2023 Writing Progress

2023 Writing Progress

Okay.  We’re closing in on the end of the year.  Which is the first year I’ve had this blog.  Which I started in large part because I wanted a place to be able to talk about my writing (and my garden).  You’ve seen my garden, so now, the least I can do is tell you how my writing’s gone this year. The short answer is: Not as great as I was hoping. But, I didn’t do nothing.  So, I’ll give…

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Roses Round-up 2023

Roses Round-up 2023

Now that we’ve reached the end of the season, I wanted to show you a round-up of all my pretty roses.  I can’t say that I’m an excellent rose gardener.  My primary gardening technique is to keep planting things until some things don’t die, and that’s pretty much the same approach I use with my roses.  This means 1) I have kind of a random assortment and 2) I count things as a success even if I get only two…

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