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The Daily Bucket–Odyssey of the Ancient Lotuses

A year ago,  I attempted to  resurrect a handful of lotus seeds, that had sat, forgotten, on a high shelf, for almost 20 years.  I dutifully roughed up one corner of the seed with 30 grit sandpaper, to expose the tip that would germinate, like YouTube told me to. I...

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  • December 1, 2019
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The Daily Bucket–A Tree for the Redwood Man.

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He wakes up at dawn and peeks out the window, looking for the heron feeding at the fishpond in the first light. No heron yet today.  He starts the espresso machine, but cannot make coffee fast enough to clear out almost seven decades of fog from his head. He sighs...

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  • November 22, 2019
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The Daily Bucket–The $100 Lotus

Last Spring, I went to Washington DC to help AOC write the Green New Deal. /s/  I had a free afternoon so I went to the Kenilworth Lotus Gardens in the northeast corner of town. It was a misty and muddy February so I had the place to myself.  Vultures...

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  • July 21, 2019
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The Daily Bucket–Hidden Treasures

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You are out for a walk in an area that had volcanic or tectonic activity millions of years ago.  Now, it’s really pretty. the soil’s rocky so the trees are small, except for skinny pines,  and tiny wildflowers are still blooming over the rolling hills, although it’s almost June.   It snowed...

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  • July 8, 2019
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The Daily Bucket–The Snail Whisperer

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I recently set up a 5 gallon aquarium and germinated lotuses in it from storied seeds.  I purchased two Japanese “trapdoor” snails to eat the aquarium’s algae.  They just had a half-dozen live young, so I am sort of a grandfather of snails. This covey of snails swiftly ate all of...

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  • March 6, 2019
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The Daily Bucket–Spring Babes

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Spring means renewal, and birth. It means baby birds chirping for food, baby ducks swimming in a row behind mom, lambies frolicking in a green field, and baby snails methodically mowing down algae. Baby snails! I bought two trapdoor snails a couple of weeks ago, to clean up the algae that...

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  • February 22, 2019
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The Daily Bucket–The Lotuses' Water Treatment Plant.

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A month ago I transplanted  five aged sprouting lotus seeds into a small aquarium filled with clay dirt.  The five sprouts have become a dozen or more, and strive to grow leaves. However an oily sheen appeared on the water’s surface.  I can’t just dump and change all the water...

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  • January 24, 2019
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The Daily Bucket–The Mystery of the Buddha Peace Lotuses

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Thousands of years ago, magic was afoot.  Gods and goddess walked the earth in human form. Everywhere Buddha walked 2500 years ago, lotuses sprouted in his footsteps. Period art depicts Buddha’s birth taking place within a lotus flower. What if folks had gathered up the lotuses from the Buddha’s footsteps and...

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  • January 19, 2019
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The Daily Bucket–Love and Lotuses

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About three weeks ago, Saint-nominee Attack Gardener sent me 5 lotus seeds that were almost 10 years old. I followed Yubtube instructions on scarring the seeds before placing them in water.  Remarkably, all the seeds sank in water, showing they were not dried out.  I talked to them in a...

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