January/Hartmânôd 4, 2020 Tag der Fruchtbarkeit

(Hartmânôd = Harsh Month)
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Plans: haircut, Lindsborg, Wings game.
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Ancestor Meditation: (grave-sites @ Alexanderwohl Friedhof Cemetery, Goessel, Ks and Medford Oklahoma Mennonite Cemetery respectively) Tag der Fruchtbarkeit/Day of Fertility/Saturday (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: 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: Eh: 
Havamal 162:
A seventeenth I know, through a wise law
To join two lives in love;
And everyone is willing, no virginal woman
Will leave me lightly after this.
 
Dedication, faithfulness, fidelity, warns against frivolous, transient love affairs, the legal bond between man and woman, lasting love, two bound together by the primal law of life, unification, sanctity of marriage, the cross of wedlock, fulfillment, maintaining strict morals within the bonds of legal marriage, love, duality, bound by primal law, love, trust and marriage. Soul-mates, wedding, partnership, permanent bond, binding decision, hope, duration, horse, permanence and marriage as a law, unity of ego and you, sister souls, soul-love, God-Man-Woman, ideal love, twin souls, two made one, success, increase.
“Marriage is the raw-root of the Aryans” (List, 63).
*H3R5
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Interpretation: The result of a previous action (Jera) brings lasting love (Eh).
*admitted bias
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1st check on all fur-kids: food, water, litterboxes, shelter.
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Outcome: 7 ½ hrs. of sleep with two wakeups.
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Brief wifey conversation.
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Hand-shredded hashbrowns topped with three sunny side up eggs + sweetened butter on whole wheat toast.
*this has become my favorite breakfast.
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Toby and I out for a walk.  I let Toby determine the direction.  He chose toward Meeka Park (west).  He fully enjoys Meeka Park.  After that, I watched him closely, keenly aware of his limitations.  As long as he was Toby-prancing and in front of me with his tail in the air, I knew he was fine.  THE MOMENT he slowed and dropped his tail, we headed home.  Three blocks west, then two blocks east, he didn’t have far to go when he was ready to go home.
*sunny, mildly cold, south wind.
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Haircut
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Toby’s 12noon insulin.
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Off to Lindsborg https://www.lindsborgcity.org/
McDs in Park City for a small cheeseburger and a drink.
Lindsborg did not fail!  My favorite restaurant (Swedish Crown https://www.bethanylb.edu/theswedishcrown/) was FINALLY open.  I fully enjoyed a Swedish, all you can eat, meal, visited Hemslöjd, Trollslända, and Coronado Heights.  Pics to be shared on Fb.
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MASL https://www.maslsoccer.com/
Baltimore Blast 6:7 OT Florida Tropics
Kansas City Comets 3:8 Milwaukee Wave
Rochester Lancers 3:7 Harrisburg Heat
Mesquite Outlaws 5:8 Tacoma Stars
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MASL 2 https://www.m2soccer.com/
New Mexico Runners 15:4 Colorado Rumble
Wichita Wings v Amarillo Bombers at Hartman Arena!  I WAS THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!
1st qtr. 2:2
2nd qtr. 1:0
3rd qtr. 1:2
4th qtr. 5:2
Final: Wichita Wings 9:6 Amarillo Bombers
WINGS WIN!  WINGS WIN!  WINGS WIN!  WINGS WIN!  WINGS WIN! 
Austin Power v Colorado Inferno (TBA)
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Toby’s midnight insulin
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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1:30am nighty night
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(alternate Tag der Fruchtbarkeit) Saga, glorious goddess of history, we greatly honor you as part and parcel of our ever-expanding past.  As we share in Minnatranc, whisper to our hearts of the stories about our gods, our ancestors, our heroes and their glories.  Be the resource for our memories should we ever forget from whence we come.  Gently remind us that we all have a rich history from which to pull.  For it is as we remember and respect the past can we deal with our present, knowing that we will someday have to deal with our spiritual debt.  We honor you, Saga, as a repository for the basis of all that we are, all that we are coming to be, and all that our offspring will inherit from us.  WE GIVE YOU A MOST HEART-FELT HEIL, SAGA, as we honor the Saga that resides in us all.
*C. Reimer/V. Elmersson