Green week is only fleetingly mentioned in my primary sources about Czech calendar customs as Rusalia. It is described as the echo of old pagan customs honoring the dead.

So even though in much of the Slavic world this week is devoted to appeasing a particular type of ancestor—the unclean dead—I’m just focusing on honoring my ancestors in general.

Since birches are heavily associated with Green Week, after I gave Děduška his first fruits, I headed down to the river birch to leave some for any spirits that might be hanging out there.

1. You have a jubilee every 50. 2. From the first coming Messiah to today is roughly six thousand years. 3. The year, 2030 will be 2,000 years from the crucifixion of Yeshua. 4. We look forward to the Sabbath, the reign of the Messiah of Earth. 5. Practicing Sabbath means preparing His reign. 6. Yeshua is identifying himself with the bread. 7. Yeshua is the first fruit of the resurrection.

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Our 2022 garden: First!

Look what I found this morning! Our very first strawberries are forming! Yes, we’ve had wild strawberries before, but these are our first strawberries that we’ve planted ourselves. We had more rain last night, so it was very wet while doing my morning rounds. We’ve had more rain throughout the day, and high winds – even tornado warnings earlier on. Not getting much done outside right now. Not…

Our 2021 garden: morning in the garden, and FIRST ONE!!!!

You know, I think we actually got a bit of rain last night! I didn’t have to water the garden beds this morning. To start, I found something really, really exciting this morning. Our first ripe tomato!!!! There it is, hiding under some leaves. 🙂 Our very first Spoon tomato! From the photos on the seed packet, this is a really big Spoon tomato. 😀 I am saving it for my older daughter, for…