(Uuunîmânôd = Blissful month)
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Plans: My Love-My Sorcha, work 8hrs
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Ancestor Meditation: Manostag/Monday (parents) Elmer H. Reimer (1924-1963) and Anna M. Schmidt (1926-1994), Jewell F. Reimer [(sister) (1947)], Michael L Reimer [(brother) (1948-1997)].
Elmer H. Reimer (1924-1963
Birth 24 October 1924 in Whitewater, Butler County, Kansas, USA
*US Navy veteran, Joint Intelligence Center, Pacific Ocean Area (JICPOA)
**Naval Intelligence Office, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
*Married 23 June 1946
Death 10 October 1963 in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas, USA
Anna M. Schmidt (1926-1994)
Birth 20 January 1926 in Lehigh, Marion County, Kansas, USA
Death 23 September 1994 in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas, USA
I honor you this day, and I honor every bit of you that resides in me.  I’m grateful for the strong German heritage you’ve provided. I look forward with eager anticipation to the great family reunion on the other side.  I offer you my undying love, honor, respect, and gratitude.
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Elder Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Elder Runes in your way
Advise the mortal man today
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Elder Rune: Kenaz: The torch, Divine wisdom, sexuality, light, shaping, fabrication or fashioning of primordial material, the hearth fire, brightly burning, knowledge, illumination, intellect, divine inspiration under control of human craft, creation, clarification, knowledge/inspiration from within, intuition, Self-awareness, creativity and transformation, clarity of thought, the application of the Divine.
Conversely:
Ulcer, a dimly burning torch, darkness, choosing to remain in the dark, a lack of Divine wisdom, lack of creativity, a self-imposed cocoon, the inability to shape the basics of life, pig ignorance, arrogance, inability to transform, uniformed, disease, decay, ambiguous thought processes, obscure thought processes, dark influences, cruel sexuality, uncontrollable human craft processes.
*A1R6
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Armanen Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Armanen Runes in your way
Advise the Spirit man today
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Armanen Rune: Hagal: 
Havamal 151.
A seventh I learned, if the hall is burning
With fire around bench and comrades;
However bright it burns, I will banish the blaze,
As soon I sing the magic chant.
 
To enclose/destroy, danger brought under control, introspection, awareness, eternal change, the Mother of all Runes, the cohesion of the world, die (pronounced ‘dee’ German for ‘the’) Alle Mutter, Frija, that which cares and maintains, protects, and preserves; that which is motherly; wisdom, harmony, salvation, blessing, protects from hail and fire, eternal change, caring and maintaining principle in the Universe, Higher Self, the perfect human being, Divine within, the Rune of humanity, married to the World, Rune of enclosure but contains a potential for growth, builder/architect of the worlds, the macrocosm of the world itself.
“Harbor the All in yourself, and you will control the All” (List, 54).
*H2R1
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Interpretation: Divine wisdom (Kenaz) leads to die Alle-Mutter (Hagal).
*Yes, I’ve come to think so.
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: WOW!  At least 9hrs of sleep with one or two bladder calls…PERFEKT!
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Family front yard time @ Essie’s insistence.
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Call into Auto Smart.  I need to try to get my oil changed today.
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Good morning chat with My Love-My Sorcha led to an emotional telephone call.  *Details for posterity only*.
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Typical breakfast on two halves of a whole-wheat English muffin.
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Toby and I out for a 20min walk.  We were pestered by a Yorkie-mix.  Once home, I tried to call Animal Control to no avail.  I tried to call the police department, affiliated with Animal Control, but was put on hold.  The little guy is on his own.
*cool/muggy, overcast, slight breeze
*if ever there was an example of homosexuality in the animal world, this little Yorkie-mix was it.  He tried to mount Toby twice, but Toby would have nothing to do with it.  Toby snapped at him like crazy; comforting enough, knowing Toby was not gay.  I would love him nonetheless.
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Oil change @ Auto Smart; Called My Love-My Sorcha from there
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I took Toby out to finish the walk.  That dog was still hanging close.  He pestered Toby the whole way.  Once home, he headed off up the block.
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Lunch: leftover pizza loaf from yesterday, garden salad added.
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Just don’t feel like working out.  I’ll pick it up tomorrow.
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The shift started well, then took a downward spiral to boredom.
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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Nighty-night; 1st night of 2 weeks w/o simvastatin…per my doctor…testing leg cramps.
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(Uuunîmânôd = Blissful month)
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Plans: domestic stuff
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Ancestor Meditation: (picture source: The Mennonite Heritage and Agricultural Museum, Goessel, Kansas)
Sunnastag/Sunna’s Day (2nd great grandparents) David   A. Schmidt (1822-1892) and Maria Nachtigal (1828-1911)
David A. Schmidt (1822-1892)
Birth 19 May 1822 in Alexanderwohl, Molotschna South, Russia
Death 18 Dec 1892 in Marion County, Kansas, United States
*Married 15 November 1849
Maria Nachtigal (1828-1911)
Birth 23 Jan 1828 in Majdan Królewski, Podkarpackie, Duchy of Poland, West Prussia
Death 01 Apr 1911 in Goessel, Marion County, Kansas, United States
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I honor you this day, and I honor every bit of you that resides in me.  I’m grateful for the strong German heritage you’ve provided. I look forward with eager anticipation to the great family reunion on the other side.  I offer you my undying love, honor, respect, and gratitude.
* no doubt the ones who brought the family over from Europe.
(picture added 3/26/2016)
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Elder Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Elder Runes in your way
Advise the mortal man today
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Elder Rune: Berkana: The feminine, Frija, Alle-Mutter, maternal instincts, birth processes, rejuvenation, growth, compassion, nurturing, caregiver, maturation, mature wisdom, recuperation, purification, the birch tree, birth, becoming, life changes, life anew, now is the time, a fresh perspective, sanctuary, all forms of Mothering, Frija at her Most-Motherly, healing, bringing into being, life passages.
Conversely:
Problems with relating to the feminine, the maternal influence and the feminine mysteries, void of growth and caring, deceit, degradation, immaturity, deterioration, contamination, needlessly clinging, tough love Mothering, in need of Mothering, missing/ignoring a significant life passage.
*A3R2
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Armanen Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Armanen Runes in your way
Advise the Spirit man today
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​Armanen Rune: Fa: 
Havamal 145.
The first one promises to help generously
In sorrow, sickness and pain;
In eternal change, man goes forth
From death to new creation.
 
Generous help, luck, eternal change, forward motion, binding, life/death/life, new creation, property, to grow, to wander, to destroy, to shred, guidance, Father, potential change reflected in a beginning; preface of that which is becoming, being and passing away; procreation, creative father principle, Alle-Vater principle.  primal Fire, the power of spirit and change as well as the power of creativity, the Divine Masculine Principle, success, pure, generated fire that acts creatively in love, will that spares manifestation down to the material levels, necessity of change.
“Generate your luck and you will have it” (List, 49).
*H1R1
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Interpretation: The Feminine (Berkana) leads to generous help (Fa).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: 6 ½ hours of decent sleep.
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Essie was SO insistent on some front yard time; turned into family time.
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Finally figured out what to give my Great Nephew for his birthday.  It’s a bit belated, but I’ll take it to him this weekend.
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Extended chat with My Love-My Sorcha
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OMGs…an EXCELLENT breakfast: 3-egg omelet with ham and cheese, whole-wheat English muffin, applesauce pancakes…OMGs good!
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Lemme see if I can recreate the equation I found to find the diameter of a circle when the circumference is known.:
C = pd
9 = (3.14) d
9/3.14 = 3.14 d/3.14

1. = d

1.45 = r
Why is this significant?  I need to create a stand for an old horn I gifted YEARS ago which I’m going to be using.  It had a stand when I gifted it, but when it came back to me, the stand didn’t.  I’m going to create a triangle stand with a 2.9” diameter circle to accommodate support for it. I’ve seen this done somewhere and it seemed to work wonderfully, and it didn’t distract from the nature of the horn.
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An overflowing recycling collection area demanded attention.
*attention granted
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MLS https://www.mlssoccer.com/
New England v Columbus
Minnesota v LA
Orlando v NYCFC
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Two loads of laundry
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Mowed and trimmed front yard; removed debris
Brother over to deliver my purchases for Winter’s fundraiser
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My Love-My Sorcha time
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My first effort @ pizza loaf turned out pretty nicely!
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Finished back yard a trimmed a bit.  More storm clouds rolling in from the west.
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Quick trip to Dillons for a few things
Call into My Love-My Sorcha.
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Call into My Love-My Sorcha
*it’s SO NICE not having to worry about cell phone minutes anymore.
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Fell asleep petting Essie
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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Woke up circa midnight only to go back to bed
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Nighty-night
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(Uuunîmânôd = Blissful month)
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Plans: My Love-My Sorcha, work 8hrs overtime
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Ancestor Meditation: (gravesites @ Alexanderwohl Mennonite and Medford Mennonite respectively) Tag der Fruchtbarkeit/Day of Fertility (2nd great grandparents) Peter Amos Reimer (1832-1905) and Agatha Dirksen (1840-1905)
Peter A Reimer (1832-1905)
Birth 17 Sept 1832 in Ohrloff, Molotschna, South Russia
Death 3 Sept 1905 in Goessel, KS
*Married 22 September 1858
Agatha Dirksen (1840-1905)
Birth 07 Apr 1840 in Sparrau, Molotschna, South Russia
Death 3 Apr 1905 in Medford, OK
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I honor you this day, and I honor every bit of you that resides in me.  I’m grateful for the strong German heritage you’ve provided. I look forward with eager anticipation to the great family reunion on the other side.  I offer you my undying love, honor, respect, and gratitude.
*no doubt the ones who brought the family over from Europe.
*offered up some tobacco for Granny Aggie.
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Elder Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Elder Runes in your way
Advise the mortal man today
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Elder Rune: Eihwaz: Irminsul, the Cosmic pillar, inner strength, stress and difficulties, overcoming obstacles, need to have backbone to get through, endurance, “Shit happens, get over it! “, temporary  cosmic consciousness, stability over external circumstances, the Shamanic link of experiences within the All.  “That which does not kill us makes us stronger” (Friedrich Nietzsche).
*A2R5
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Armanen Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Armanen Runes in your way
Advise the Spirit man today
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Armanen Rune: Fa: 
Havamal 145.
The first one promises to help generously
In sorrow, sickness and pain;
In eternal change, man goes forth
From death to new creation.
 
Generous help, luck, eternal change, forward motion, binding, life/death/life, new creation, property, to grow, to wander, to destroy, to shred, guidance, Father, potential change reflected in a beginning; preface of that which is becoming, being and passing away; procreation, creative father principle, Alle-Vater principle.  primal Fire, the power of spirit and change as well as the power of creativity, the Divine Masculine Principle, success, pure, generated fire that acts creatively in love, will that spares manifestation down to the material levels, necessity of change.
“Generate your luck and you will have it” (List, 49).
*H1R1
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Interpretation: Inner strength (Eihwaz) leads to generous help (Fa).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: 6 ½ hours of pretty good sleep.
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My health by the numbers:
Glucose: 114
Weight: 239 ¯from 242
BP:132/72
Pulse 81
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Extensive chat with My Love-My Sorcha; planning future stuff
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Breakfast on two halves of an English muffin
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Cricket wireless
Dillons
German food truck
Toby and I out for a 15min walk
*yeah, he violated
*yeah, I put him on the retractable
*yeah, I forgave him and let him once again run free.
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Bundesliga http://www.bundesliga.com/en/
München 4-1 Freiburg
Borussia Dortmund v Bremen
*7th min tor/goal Bremen
*32nd min TOR/GOAL BVB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*42nd min TOR/GOAL BVB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*@ the half, 1-1
*46th min tor/goal Bremen
*68th min tor/goal Bremen
*75th min TOR/GOAL BVB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*89th min TOR/GOAL BVB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*end of match; BVB 4-3 Bremen
*BVB WINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
M’Gladbach 2-2 Darmstadt
Köln 2-0 Mainz (I think with this won, Köln qualified for the Europa League for the first time in 2 decades)
http://www.bundesliga.com/en/news/Bundesliga/noblmd11-how-qualifying-for-europe-works-in-the-bundesliga.jsp
Berlin 2-6 Leverkusen
Hamburger 2-1 Wolfsburg
Ingolstadt 1-1 Schalke
Hoffenheim 0-0 Augsburg
Frankfurt 2-2 Leipzig
These European split seasons confuse me.  This MIGHT be the conclusion of the regular season.  In case it is, here is a look at the table: http://www.bundesliga.com/en/stats/table/
*I wish the MLS had a relegation zone like the Europeans.
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Boring work; all night in layout/trim/drill
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Call into My Love-My Sorcha…Chat with My Love-My Sorcha
*her new grandchild is on the way.
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MLS https://www.mlssoccer.com/
Montreal 4-1 Portland
DC 0-1 Chicago
Seattle 1-0 Salt Lake
Atlanta 4-1 Houston
Philly 2-1 Colorado
Vancouver v Sporting KC
*40th min goal Vancouver
*@ the half, Vancouver 1-0 SKC
*67th min goal Vancouver
*end of match, Vancouver 2-0 Sporting Kansas City
*well Hela…
Dallas 0-1 San Jose
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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Nighty-night
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(Uuunîmânôd = Blissful month)
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Plans: My Love-My Sorcha, work 8hrs
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Ancestor Meditation: (picture source: Ancestry.com)
Frijastag/Frija’s Day (great grandparents) David D. Schmidt (1852-1924) and Elisabeth Zülke (apx1856-1932) 
David D. Schmidt
Birth abt 1852 in Russia
Death 19 JUN 1924 in Lehigh, Marion County, Kansas, USA
Married 22 February 1876
Elisabeth Zülke (1856-1932)
Birth 4 JAN 1856 in Waldheim, Molotschna, South Russia
Death 19 JUN 1932 in Lehigh, Kansas
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I honor you this day, and I honor every bit of you that resides in me.  I’m grateful for the strong German heritage you’ve provided. I look forward with eager anticipation to the great family reunion on the other side.  I offer you my undying love, honor, respect, and gratitude.
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Elder Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Elder Runes in your way
Advise the mortal man today
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Elder Rune: Hagalaz: The cosmic seed of potential, a sacred enclosure/shell, shaping, evolution, protection within, holiness, a type of Godotuom; destruction/regeneration, evolution, destructive elements, unavoidable unpleasantness, pruning, potentially destructive but change will occur on its own given time.  Embrace the necessary destruction.  Don't rail against it.  Benefit from it.
*A2R1
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Armanen Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Armanen Runes in your way
Advise the Spirit man today
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Armanen Rune: Ur:
Havamal 146.
Another I name, that all need to have
Who officiate as curing healers;
Know yourself, and you will know the world,
And learn to discern between evil and its causes.
 
Self-knowledge/awareness, all-knowing, discernment, the primordial, eternity, primal fire, primal light, primal, primal bull, recognize the cause of an event, healing. that which is grasped or permanent, medical help, the healing powers of medical drugs, nurturing at the original basis, original cause, origin, root of all material and cosmic phenomena, contact with the transcendent, contact with the dead, life after mortal death, Mother-God, Creative Mother Principle, a physician’s rune and represents resurrection, eternity, and continuity, root of all material and cosmic phenomena, root of eternity, causality; the origin of time, cause and effect in the eternal power of becoming.
“Know yourself, then you will know all” (List 50).
*H1R2
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Interpretation: Evolution (Hagalaz) leads to healing (Ur).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: rough night:
5 ½ hours of sleep
2 bladder calls
Cramps in big toe & upper/inner leg
Fed kids
2 ½ hours of solid sleep
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Quick good morning chat with My Love-My Sorcha
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Breakfast: scrambled eggs with ham and a whole-wheat English muffin with honey
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Some front yard time for Essie; no sign of Socks.
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Sisser called with some troubling news.  She has melanoma under her arms; removable, but concerning.
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Toby and I tried a late AM walk.  It was sprinkling a bit, but we persevered.  Shortly into the walk, the rain increased to the point of a downpour.  We hurried on home in time to get out of a thunderstorm.
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Pizza Hut for lunch; godsdamn…I’m glad I do carryout rather than delivery.  My carryout: $10+, Delivery $18+.  She tried to explain it to me but I didn’t care to understand.
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Not in the best of moods
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Chat with My Love-My Sorcha
Requested call in from My Love-My Sorcha
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Don’t feel like working-out…maybe tomorrow.
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No Bundesliga matches scheduled
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MLS https://www.mlssoccer.com/
Wednesday
Philly 2-0 Houston
Chicago 3-0 Colorado
Sporting KC v Seattle
*@ the half, 0-0
*56th min GOAL SKC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*58th min GOAL SKC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*69th min GOAL SKC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*end of match
*SKC WINS!  SKC WINS!!  SKC WINS!!!!!!!!
Salt Lake 2-0 NYCFC
San Jose 1-1 Orlando
Today
NYRB 1-1 Toronto FC
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Boring shift @ work.  Three orders on the band-saw, the rest of shift was deburring.
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My Love-My Sorcha was still awake when I got home.
Requested call-in
Love her
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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Shower, bed, nighty-night.
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(Uuunîmânôd = Blissful month)
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Plans: My Love-My Sorcha. Work 8hrs
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Ancestor Meditation: Wotanstag/Wotan’s Day (grandparents, Mother) David F. Schmidt (1895-1957) and Mary Goertz (1888-1983)
David F. Schmidt (1895-1957)
Birth 28 Feb 1885 in Lehigh, Marion County, Kansas
Death 1 Oct 1957 in Marion County, Kansas
*Married 22 October 1922
Mary Goertz (1888-1983)
Birth 17 March 1888 in Kismet, Kansas
Death 27 Dec 1983 in Marion County, Kansas
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I honor you this day, and I honor every bit of you that resides in me.  I’m grateful for the strong German heritage you’ve provided. I look forward with eager anticipation to the great family reunion on the other side.  I offer you my undying love, honor, respect, and gratitude.
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Elder Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Elder Runes in your way
Advise the mortal man today
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Elder Rune: Mannaz: The human, Heimo; our genetic connection to the gods, humankind, cooperation between people, the special human, the human intellect, awareness, kinship, social structure, the ability to work well within a social structure in an effort be effective within it, social interaction and order, perfected intellect, attract support from your peers, attainment of common goals, Divine structure.
Conversely:
Problems relating with Heimo and humanity, without cooperation between people, the inability to work within a social structure in an effective way, self-delusion, intellectual arrogance/ignorance, bigotry, inability to make peace with others, destructive social nature, closed mindedness, failed social interaction and disorder; anti-social behavior and lack of Divine structure.
*A3R4
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Armanen Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Armanen Runes in your way
Advise the Spirit man today
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Armanen Rune: Not: 
Havamal 152.
An eighth is mine, to all the Folk
Useful to know in their suffering;
Where hatred rises-up between man and man,
This I can settle fast.
 
Distress, compulsion of fate, separation, confrontation, strife settled, understanding suffering, settled calm, mind over matter, necessity of fate, misery and death, change of luck as necessity, decision of the Wurtâ, Wurt/Urlag paid-for, cause-effect relations, capability to restructure Wurt/Urlag, That which cannot be averted, the Ur-law that is active in every creature, stress, karmic debt, karmic need, but with outlook for change of karma, banishing ill fortune by means of accepting karma and karmic law, Skuld, Divine justice that balances.
“Use your fate, do not strive against it” (List, 55).
*H2R2
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Interpretation: social interaction (Mannaz) leads to distress (Not).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: shitty sleep; a bladder call each hour for the first 5 hrs, 2 hrs of good sleep.
*Essie close all night; closely cuddled early AM.
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Good morning chat with My Love-My Sorcha
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Breakfast: two halves of a whole-wheat, buttered, English muffin with egg, ham and cheese.
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Toby and I out for a well-behaved 30min walk.
*mostly sunny, mild, heluh-JsFnChst-HELUH stout south wind.
*mulberry crop is progressing nicely…probably losing quite a bit in this wind.
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MAN, my leaving Essie for a weekend has really affected her.  She seriously shadows me everywhere I go.
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Hodgepodge for lunch
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More My Love-My Sorcha chat
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Wednesday mini workout/single set

• Side bends 20/20
• Chest press 10
• Bicep 10
• Triceps 10
• Shoulder press 10
• Bent row 10
• Plank 60sec
• ½ squats 10

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@ work, started in layout/trim/drill then moved to the table shaper.
*I was kinda thinking the Runes might’ve showed themselves @ work, but didn’t.
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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Nighty-night
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​God/dess Meditation: Wotan; Alle-Vater god!  Wandering god!  Rune god! Wolf god! Raven god! Wotan!! Husband to Frija, the Alle-Mutter.  Son to Paru and Bezzia, brother to Willo and Wîh; We call out to you, not as slaves or on bended knee, but on our feet and open-armed as befits your offspring. Watch us as we struggle, but the fight and fame must both be ours! Grant us that victory which we win by OUR might and mane! After a life battle-worn, Wotan, grant us access to our Great Ancestral Hall, where we may feast, drink the glorious mead and be merry with our heroes and our Altmâgâ. WE GIVE YOU A MOST HEART-FELT HEIL, Wotan, as we honor the Wotan that resides in us all!
*source: combination AFA Book of Uncommon Prayers, and C.Reimer/V.Elmersson
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Alaf Sal Fena!

​(Uuunîmânôd = Blissful month)
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Plans: My Love-My Sorcha, work 8hrs
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Ancestor Meditation: Donarstag/Donar’s Day (great, grandparents) Peter Reimer (1868-1937) and Eva Hiebert (1874-1929)
Peter Reimer (1868-1937)
Birth 17 July 1868 in, Kleefeld, Molotschna, Russia
Death 12 Jan 1937 in Kern County, California, United States
*Married 9 April 1893
Eva Hiebert (1874-1929)
Birth 13 Jan 1874 in, Alexanderwohl, Molotschna, Taurida, Russia
Death 20 Aug 1929 in Fresno, Fresno, California, United States
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I honor you this day, and I honor every bit of you that resides in me.  I’m grateful for the strong German heritage you’ve provided. I look forward with eager anticipation to the great family reunion on the other side.  I offer you my undying love, honor, respect, and gratitude.
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Elder Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Elder Runes in your way
Advise the mortal man today
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Elder Rune: Laguz: A body of water, the necessity of water as a life source, life ever-flowing; seen and unseen, going with the flow, consistent fluidity, the leek (a healing herb) the feminine, Nirdu, Erda (Mother Earth), Ing-Frô and Frouwa, emotions intact, potential for life, magical workings, conform with emotions, personal growth, the basic energy and secret source of organic life, feeling, the deep minded Spirit, intuition.
Conversely:
A dried-up body of Water, swimming upstream, difficulties with relating to the feminine, manipulation, lack of moral fiber, emotions out of control or suppressed, shallow minded, deception, unsympathetic, totally void of growth, failing to go with the flow, frivolity, immaturity, depression, inability to formulate with the emotional world, unstimulated, sinking/drowning, disconnect with the Inner Self.
*A3R5
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Armanen Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Armanen Runes in your way
Advise the Spirit man today
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Armanen Rune: Sig: 
Havamal 155.
This I know as an eleventh, when
I accompany my dear friend into combat;
I sing it into the shield, so that he triumphs in battle
And that luck and happiness surrounds him always.
 
Triumph, surrounded with luck and happiness, victory, success, gain, well-being, victorious and happy, into the fray, blessing from above, successful fight, achieved goal, school, and salvation by light, inspiration, soul, and power of the sun, inspiration, soul, life force, wholeness, reliable success, healing, good luck, spiritual completion, and the path of the soul, Rune of the spiritual ray of inspiration, wisdom, and illumination.
“The creative spirit must conquer” (List, 57).
*H2R5
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Interpretation: Fluidity (Laguz) leads to blessings from above (Sig).).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: 6 ½ hours of pretty-good sleep.
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Good morning chat with My Love-My Sorcha.
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Breakfast on two halves of an English muffin.
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More chat with My Love-My Sorcha
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2 loads of laundry
Started lunch
*well hel, no beer…plain-ole oven-baked bräts
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Toby and I out for an extremely well-behaved, 30min walk
*muggy, mostly cloudy, slight breeze.
*Essie out front briefly, but soon was ready to come back inside.
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WOW!  Bräts are still good, even without being cooked in beer.
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Lunch: bräts, mashed potatoes with a garden salad…YUMMY!
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Dumbbell strength training routine:
Side bends, 3 sets 6 @ 40lbs
Standing, 3 sets of 6 @ 2/25lbs

• Forearm curls
• Bicep curls
• Overhead triceps extension
• Shoulder press
• Standing shoulder row

Plank, 3 sets @ 30secs each
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Toby is inside as severe Wx is expected; brother will check on him.
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@ work; Almost nothing on the table shaper.  Very little in layout/trim/drill…WTF is going on?
*a bit of rain, nothing like what local Wx-persons said it was going to be.
*cell phone battery ran completely down.
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Last check on all fur-kids.
*Toby still inside, no sign of Toby messes, so brother must’ve been over.
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Shower, bed, night-night.
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God/dess Meditation: Donar;
Donar, Son of Wotan and Erda, husband to Sibba with the Golden Hair, wielder of Malant and Great God of thunder, thunder forth in our lives. When we would hold back, encourage us to advance. When we would be weak, hearten us be strong. When we would shun life’s pleasures, inspire our appetites for that which is lusty and good. Excite our growth from strength to strength; teach us, elder brother, how to throw our own Hammer, and slay the giants who oppose our will. WE GIVE YOU A MOST HEART-FELT HEIL, DONAR, as we honor the Donar that resides in us all!
*source: combination AFA Book of Uncommon Prayers, and C.Reimer/V.Elmersson
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Alaf Sal Fena!

(Uuunîmânôd = Blissful month)
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Plans: My Sorcha, work 8hrs
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Ancestor Meditation: Dienstag/Thing Day (grandparents) Henry E. Reimer (1898-1967) and Maria Hildebrand (1895-72)
Henry E. Reimer (1898-1967)
Birth 15 May 1898 in Medford, Grant County, Oklahoma, USA
Death 26 Mar 1967 in Hesston, Harvey County, Kansas, United States
*Married 2 June 1920
Maria Hildebrand (1894-72)
Birth 30 Dec 1894 in Marion County, Ks, USA
Death 22 Jul 1972 in Newton, Harvey County, KS, USA
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I honor you this day, and I honor every bit of you that resides in me.  I’m grateful for the strong German heritage you’ve provided. I look forward with eager anticipation to the great family reunion on the other side.  I offer you my undying love, honor, respect, and gratitude.
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Elder Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Elder Runes in your way
Advise the mortal man today
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Elder Rune: Jera: Harvest, 12th Rune of the Futhark, the number 12, cycles, a turning point, cause and effect, the Rune of return, two halves of a cyclic whole, harmony-in-movement-in-balance, improvement, expansion, growth, progress, patience, fruition of plans, the mystic union between Earth and the Cosmos, the result of a previous action, appropriate reward for the right (or wrong) action.
*A2R4
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Armanen Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Armanen Runes in your way
Advise the Spirit man today
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Armanen Rune: Fa: 
Havamal 145.
The first one promises to help generously
In sorrow, sickness and pain;
In eternal change, man goes forth
From death to new creation.
 
Generous help, luck, eternal change, forward motion, binding, life/death/life, new creation, property, to grow, to wander, to destroy, to shred, guidance, Father, potential change reflected in a beginning; preface of that which is becoming, being and passing away; procreation, creative father principle, Alle-Vater principle.  primal Fire, the power of spirit and change as well as the power of creativity, the Divine Masculine Principle, success, pure, generated fire that acts creatively in love, will that spares manifestation down to the material levels, necessity of change.
“Generate your luck and you will have it” (List, 49).
*H1R1
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Interpretation: A turning point (Jera) leads to preface for that which is becoming (Fa).
*WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
*This is SO Sorcha and me.  Over the last weekend, we indeed reached our turning point (Jera).  Now, we wait with continued eager anticipation for what is becoming (Fa).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: 8 ½ hours of really-good sleep!
*6 ½ hrs of sleep
*feed fur-kids
*2hrs of sleep
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Good morning chat with My Love Sorcha
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Essie is NOT leaving my side.
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Breakfast: three-egg omelet with ham and cheese, potato coins, 2 whole wheat English muffins with honey.
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Toby and I out for a well-behaved, 30min walk.  There are two mulberry trees on the walk.  The mulberry crop is fully-on!
*sunny, warm, strong south breeze.
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Requested call-in from My Love My Sorcha
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Lunch; white cheddar packaged rice with onions, peas, corn, hotdogs and turkey kielbasa added: YUMMY!
*garden salad added
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Still a bit sluggish; too sluggish for effective strength training
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Good night of work, enough to keep me on the shaper-table.
*heluh rain!
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Had to unpack to find my phone charger…hehe.
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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Nighty-night
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(Uuunîmânôd = Blissful month)
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Plans: PORTLAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Ancestor Meditation: (gravesites @ Alexanderwohl Mennonite and Medford Mennonite respectively) Tag der Fruchtbarkeit/Day of Fertility (2nd great grandparents) Peter Amos Reimer (1832-1905) and Agatha Dirksen (1840-1905)
Peter A Reimer (1832-1905)
Birth 17 Sept 1832 in Ohrloff, Molotschna, South Russia
Death 3 Sept 1905 in Goessel, KS
*Married 22 September 1858
Agatha Dirksen (1840-1905)
Birth 07 Apr 1840 in Sparrau, Molotschna, South Russia
Death 3 Apr 1905 in Medford, OK
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I honor you this day, and I honor every bit of you that resides in me.  I’m grateful for the strong German heritage you’ve provided. I look forward with eager anticipation to the great family reunion on the other side.  I offer you my undying love, honor, respect, and gratitude.
*no doubt the ones who brought the family over from Europe.
*offered up some tobacco for Granny Aggie.
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Elder Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Elder Runes in your way
Advise the mortal man today
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Elder Rune: Dagaz: Light of day, total enlightenment, awakening, the AH-HA moment, benefit from new information, achieving balance, harmony, hyper-consciousness, the light of dawn, awakening, positive focus on life, light at the end of the tunnel, increase, growth, an ending prior to a beginning, transformation, possibly related to the 3rd eye; the mystical place where the two lobes of the brain join.
*A3R7
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Armanen Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Armanen Runes in your way
Advise the Spirit man today
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Armanen Rune: Tyr: 
Havamal 156.
A twelfth one I sing, when I see through the brush
The hanged one swinging from the hemp;
He climbs down from the trunk, must tell me his tale
When I carve the Runes right.
 
Rebirth, renewal, rising from the ashes, excitation, revelation, mysteries revealed, sacrifice, rebirth of the Sun god, fertility and/or destruction, generation, power, success, wisdom, duties fulfilled, art of concealment and hiding, rebirth into the light - life of the soul, the power to make situations turn completely around, spiritual understanding, the power of regeneration, warrior strength, justice, balance, personal sacrifice of the father, resurrection/reincarnation/born again; “Do not fear anything, even dying cannot kill you.  Better to die than to be dead alive” (Gorsleben).
“Fear not death - it cannot kill you (List, 58).
H2R6


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Interpretation: An awakening (Dagaz) leads to rebirth (Tyr).
*ESCELLENT Runes with which to go to Portland!
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Outcome: off I go!
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Last check on all fur-kids before I head-out.
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