Saturday, November 11, 2017

Creation Gardening - The Autumn Sleep Has Begun


One last rose was in bloom today, its flower faded by the cold nights, but still glowing bright and cheerful on a cloudy day. The Creation Garden is almost as interesting to watch in the fall as it is in the spring.

Just as plants wake up according to their season, so they fall into dormancy one by one. One reader envies my vast supply of autumn leaves, but he has a free supply of coffee grounds from a coffee house. My advantage is not having to haul my soil amendments. My neighbors bag them and I confiscate them, sometimes only dragging them across the street.

One neighbor probably snickered that I grabbed two bags full of sweet gum prickly seed-balls. But I was smiling. They went to the wild garden where few plants germinate. Besides, the seed-balls are normally picked clean of their seeds - either by birds or squirrels. If I need trees planted, I count on the squirrels, who cleverly place them in the middle of rose plants.

I finally concluded that the wild garden only needed to have its own way and grow its favorites, mostly in shade. Some junk trees are growing up into the little bit of sun that is available, drawing from the compost in one corner and the extra leaves placed in their area.

 This is the second bloom of the summer,
pink below - because I left the top blooms to seed for
the Cardinals nesting there.

Rose Collars Completed
All the roses and Crepe Myrtles are wearing their rose collars now. Soon they will have a layer of peat humus for extra protection and soil building. Leaves inside the collar will contribute to insulating the plants and feeding the soil.

Crepe Myrtles enjoy rich soil and bloom accordingly. The Mother of All Crepe Myrtles got a special dressing of crushed leaves and top soil from the street. Leaves accumulate in the street, but some areas are especially rich in top soil washed off, leaves crushed by parking cars and trucks. That mixture is heavy with promise, and I pile it up under the biggest Crepe Myrtle, pictured above.

The newly planted Crepe Myrtles have collars, so I add coffee didies to them. After each pot of pour-over coffee, I have the grounds left in the paper filter. This coffee didie makes a good addition to the soil enclosed by the rose collar. The total adds up quickly. Soon I will have a bucket filling up, to carry bunches of them to the front yard.

 Butterflies and other pollinators love
Joe Pye Weed.


I took the name Joe Pye Weed for granted as I watched the flowers turn into seed. I sprinkled some seed near the plant and took the rest of the seed-heads to the Butterfly Garden.

Joe Pye Weed will be high on my list for the rose garden, tall and easy to grow, taking room and sunshine away from the grassy weeds.

Volume IV Is Now in Print - The Sermons of Martin Luther



Volume IV of The Sermons of Martin Luther are in print. Next will be the student economy edition and the Kindle e-book. Some of the initial color versions have already been ordered.

Volume V is done, except for the dedication photograph. I expect that to be finished in a few days. Then it goes to Janie Sullivan, then Amazon software check, color, BW, Kindle.

Volume VI has started. Quite a few normal typos were eliminated first. Now it is being read over, sentence by sentence.


Last 30 Days - Big Numbers.
Last Two Days - 12,000 Views So Far.
It's All About the Numbers, Right Growthers?

 The laughable Lutherans line up to criticize Luther,
perhaps because of this statement,
from a volume the Book of Concord commends for study.


3984
686
639
517
401
369
300
231
228
205



This deserves to be read carefully. Note that Luther quoted John 1:29 - once a favorite among the UOJists - without falling into the bog of "the entire world is forgiven and saved, without faith."

These lectures are commended by the Formula of Concord for additional study on the very topic of Justification by Faith, yet yet the alleged Quia-ists, who claim to hold a quia subscription to the Book of Concord, do not not even seem remotely acquainted with this classic book, among Luther's best work in his brilliant career declaring the meaning of the Scriptures.

Missouri, WELS and the Little Sect on the Prairie beg for money for world missions. Why? To tell everyone they are already forgiven and saved? Why not let ELCA do that, because that is ELCA - and mainline apostate - dogma.

In fact, if readers enjoy this gasbag - Rahner - that Roman Catholic theologian teaches that everyone is already an Anonymous Christian. Yes, the Third World is so saturated with kindness and love that they are already Christians without knowing  the Name. They may be better Christians than believers. Catholic apostates love Rahner.

I feel like the anvil salesman telling the people of River City that the Music Man is a fraud.

Marian Paroo: I've never met a man who sells anvils before.
Charlie Cowell: Takes a real salesman, I can tell you that. Anvils have a limited appeal, you know.


Telling people that their synods are lying to them about doctrine - that has a limited appeal too.




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