Wannaskan Almanac

And here is the Wannaskan Almanac with Word-Wednesday for August 5, 2026, the thirty-first Wednesday of the year, the seventh Wednesday of summer, the first Wednesday of August, and the two-hundred seventeenth day of the year, with one-hundred forty-eight days remaining. Wannaska Phenology Update for August 5, 2026 Wild Red Raspberry Rubus idaeus —miskominin in Anishinaabe—is now ready for picking throughout Wannaskaland. Red raspberry is ubiquitous throughout much of Minnesota and frequently found along roadsides and hiking trails. Its fruits are readily and widely decimated by both birds and mammals, resulting in widespread seed dispersal. It establishes quickly from seed, after which vigorous and aggressive rhizomes often create dense colonies. In Anishinaabe tradition, miskomin means "blood berry", carrying teachings of resilience, gentleness, and women's health. The Raspberry Moon, Miskomini Giizis, rises in mid-summer when berries ripen, and this moon teaches that ...

And now, due to popular demand, here's more fractured history! 1265 Battle of Evesham: English Prince Edward (later Edward I) defeats baronial forces of Simon de Montfort, who is killed and his body mutilated.  The real question?  Is it Eve's ham or Eve Sham?  Pork or Phony?   1578 Battle of The Three Kings [Battle of Alcazar quivir): Moroccans defeat a Moroccan-Portuguese alliance in northern Morocco with 10,000 killed.  If I know anything about three kings it was probably caused by smoking a rubber cigar. 1598 London's Lord Mayor repossesses the Steelyard from the Hanze (German Hanseatic League) on instruction from Elizabeth.  Elizabeth was heard to have said "Unhanze my steelyard". 1693 Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Pérignon's invention of Champagne.  This is also known as reason number 599 on Steve and Joe's get up and drink list. Breakfast is served! 1753 21-year-old George Washington becomes a master mason.  They tried their best t...

                        THIRD MOVEMENT                    REMEMBERING   SONG SIXTEEN HUNTERS   III For a few more days I ascended the water’s path             sleeping near the winding stream when sleep would come             but bursting now with giddy knowing that soon              I would break through the upper walls and see the sun     Then one moment I turned a corner             and the burning light came flashing in             and I ran to meet the streaming sunlight           ...

  The Palmville Globe Volume 2 Number 27 Man Limits Landfill Usage. Joe McDonnell, 79 and residing in Palmville Twp, Minnesota, recently kept several dozen wax covered cardboard boxes from going to the local landfill. "The food warehouse that supplies the food shelf I volunteer at was oversupplied with certain items," McDonnell tells the press. "The warehouse dropped several pallets of food for us to distribute to the general public. I was stationed at the corn-on-the cob pallet. The corn came three dozen ears to a box. We filled mesh bags with six ears each, leaving a dozen ears in the box. As the cars drove along either side of the line of pallets, we gave out a mesh bag if a car was picking up just for themselves, two bags for two households, or a box with 12 ears plus one bag if they were picking up for three households.    The hope was to get rid of the waxy boxes because they can't be recycled. We only learned how many households each car was picking up for as ...