Showing posts with label 5/1. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 5/1. Show all posts

Friday, May 01, 2026

Today it's May

May Day is the starting point of summer fun, even if some of us are only dreaming of warmer temps.

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A few sillies for your entertainment:

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May 1, 2026 is Bealtaine (or Beltane), a major Celtic fire festival marking the start of summer and the "light half" of the year, traditionally celebrated around May 1st (May Eve/May Day). 

It signifies a time of fertility, protection, and new beginnings.

Get out there and dance, leave an offering for the fairies, and celebrate!

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Henry Update:

The H Man followed me into the bathroom yesterday, for the first time in weeks.

Then he found his catnip fish toy, and chewed a hole in it.

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Still working through the switch from the PM appetite stimulant dose to AM; he doesn't eat much until hours later, so his breakfast bowl sits unlicked.

Because I open his B12 and probiotic capsules to mix into his food, I must shuffle my approach so I know he's getting the meds.



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Wednesday, May 01, 2024

May Day, May Day!

April showers bring May Flowers!

Celebrate May Day by enjoying a few of the spring flowers in our yard:
Wood Poppy
(Stylophorum diphyllum)
Red-berried Elder
(Sambucus racemosa)
White Trillium
(Trillium grandiflorum)
Woodland Phlox
(Phlox divaricata)
Rue Anemone
(Thalictrum thalictroides)
Spring Beauty
(Claytonia virginica L.)
Downy Yellow Violet
(Viola pubescens)

These are plants that experts say were alive and well in Michigan before Europeans settled.

The native birds, bees, bugs, and bats all evolved with these plants, and they are acclimated to our environment.

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Monday, May 01, 2023

May Day

It's May Day!

It's also PO'Monday.

Why not some May Day pics of Celestial Pommy then?
1 May, 2019
1 May, 2020
1 May, 2021
One never knows what the temperatures or weather will be like on May Day, yet it's an important to remember that Winter is in the rearview mirror, and Summer is ahead.
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