The day begins, bursting with promises

An acronym that I find useful

CMAYFCC...Call me after your first cup of coffee.

I want to talk to you. I need details. It isn't urgent and I want to catch you at your best time.

Big day planned

It won't all get done. 

Modest rains predicted for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

I did a garden walk-around. The potato patch needs touch-up with a hoe but I can delay tilling for another week.

If I am going to spray insecticide on the potatoes, today is my window if I want to get ahead of the beetles and the egg-laying. 

The fenced-in garden needs tilling and the cabbage plants are large enough to transplant. Cabbage is a heavy-lifter in a subsistence garden. It produces "tonnage" rather than garnishes. It keeps well in cold storage. It can be preserved as a fermented product. It has vitamin C and can be incorporated into the menu in a vast number of ways.

Southern Belle's last four rows of sweet corn need to be planted. 

I am trying to empty out the refrigerator in terms of scion I have stored. I depleted the local walnut trees and will have to finish off my cache by harassing the trees near the Upper and Hill Orchards.

I have push-mowing to do.

An interesting essay

Into the wilderness, where did Jesus flee to for solace and safety?

There are multiple instances where Elijah, John the Baptist and Jesus fled into the wilderness to avoid the Biblical equivalent of The Deep State.

Tabor wrote an essay where he makes the case that the geological feature now called Wadi el-Yabis is the most likely place where Jesus spent the winter before his Passion and death. 

The bottom of Wadi el-Yabis is wide and flat near where it flows into the Jordan.

Farther upstream, the stream-bed narrows, the limestone sides become steep, fractured and riddled with caves.