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I'm not a fan of April foolery, so in these last few minutes of March 31st, I'm offering you a silly-yet-useful bit of fun: For those moments when you are just not sure that the guy, the girl, the job, the trip, the naked fire spinning, was such a good idea. Card 1 - Where am I at right now?  (What the hell happened?) Card 2 - Where am I headed?  (And will I find my pants?) Card 3 - If I continue on this path, what can I expect to encounter?  (Please no spiders.) Card 4 - How will this play out in the end if I keep moving in this direction?  (Hopefully booze.) Card 5 - What is the overall theme/sense of this situation?  (Probably booze.) The layout shown is a quickie sample. If you want a little more symbolism, you can lay out the cards in a compass or crossroads style. Card 1 would be in the north, Card 2 in the east, Card 3 in the south, and Card 4 in the West, with Card 5 in the center or over-laying the spread. Whatever works for you. I rarely read for "timing" be

My lettuce and green onion seeds have been in the ground for a little more than a month now, and have just this last week made a show of life.  I was so very eager in February, when the unseasonably warm weather arrived. Eager for life and Spring and growth. But there were still frosts, fogs, and dark days to come that required candlelight and tea and some satisfying hibernation. March in the Valley has a way of teasing you out and still not being hospitable enough to be of any sort of good company. But this month of the Spring equinox, of green beer, of the anniversary of a particularly bad day for Ceasar, and punctuated by astrological oddities and a Friday the 13th, has had its moments, and has now come nearly to a close. Before it melts into the arms April, I should thank it for the cherry and apricot blossoms. And for the arrow-leaf balsam root flowering on the hillsides, waving multitudes of cheery yellow faces. The Oregon grape bloomed this morning, one brief day after I took th