Sunday pictures and fun

Yesterday I decided it was time to clean off my roof. I raked off the branches and leaves and then moved down to the gutters. The gutters were full of great compost! :D The leaves and branches, and nut shells (pecan tree) fall into the gutter and pile up. It rains and then the stuff in my gutters turns into compost. lol I got quite a few pounds of nice rich compost from my gutters and put them in a container. (I talk about this in Episode 28 of the iPod Witch)

I mowed some lawn yesterday and went out and looked at my new plants. I planted potatoes, pumpkins, sunflowers, assorted flowers, and checked on my Bee Balm. Everything is looking so nice! I have pictures of the pumpkin plants at my flickr:

Brook's Flickr

With the pumpkin picture, I also have one view from my roof, and some Crow pictures from the park. I also have a cute little squirrel and a picture of my most important piece of jewelry! Enjoy. :)

Daffs in bloom and snow! :O

Yes, I said Daffs and snow. :) It snowed here (six inches worth!!!) and then the next week we had temps in the 70's and 80's. lol So I have some pictures of the snow and some pictures of the Daffs around the birdbath in bloom. You can see them at my Flickr photostream. :)

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Here is a link to one of the two pictures of the birdbath and daffs. Go check it out and let me know what you think. I can't wait until they are all in bloom. I'll post a picture when they are! :)

Birdbath and Daffs

Busy Bee Brook! :p

Today was BEAUTIFUL! It was right at 70˚ and sooo nice! I went to the back of my yard and cleared out the brush, weeds, and prickly vines that covered one patch of my daffodils. (I mentioned this in the podcast I just put out. :p ). The area looks soooo much better now. I meant to take a picture of it and forgot. After I fixed the area, I came in and cooled off. (What a novel idea! Having to cool off in February!!!) After I did, I grabbed my blankets and went back to the yard. I tossed the blankets down and sat in the yard for over an hour just enjoying the day.

I watched the birds come to the bird feeder, watched a squirrel play in the tree and just all around enjoyed myself. I think it is supposed to be warm again tomorrow. If it is, I'll find another part of the yard that needs sprucing up. :D

Come on Spring! You know you want to. :)

November musings

Well, November is almost over. Only a little over a week or so to go. I haven't posted here since I put up the picture of my Samhain altar. What have I been doing? Freezing! lol It turned cold here and I've been snuggling in the house in my room. I had central heating until two years ago when it decided to die on me. Since then, I have only a small space heater in my bedroom. I also have one that I run sometimes in the kitchen. It's pretty darn cold in the rest of my house!

My pecan tree decided to finally give up and give me all the pecans. :) I've spent many days of November going out and picking them up. They are delicious! I love pecans. Good thing since I have about 29340392 pounds of them. Actually I don't have that many but it seems like it! I hope to sell some of them. I can always use the extra money.

I re-did the labels for all my herbs recently. I had done hand written labels, but I had wanted nicer ones. I found a template for my windows computer. (I have a Mac and a win box) The template works via Microsoft Word and lets you do a sheet of labels. It will let you do a sheet of the exact same labels, or you can do different ones. I made up different ones. On each, it says "Brook's herbs" at the top in green and then I put the individual herbs under it in black. They look pretty nice. I did one sheet of them and I have put them all on my herb jars. I need to print out some more, but I'm waiting until I can use the whole sheet. I don't want to waste them.

They turned out quiet nicely! I have all my herbs in glass jars in my Witchy trunk. I have most of them in matching jars I found at Dollar General. They look like minature cookie jars. The rest of my herbs are in empty spice, pickle, mini mayo, or other glass jars. I recycle all my little glass jars for this purpose. All the plastic jars I clean out go to the recycle center!

I have been debating whether to put up my Yule tree this year. The tree is packed away in my junk room. I had a hard time getting my Samhain / Halloween goodies out and they weren't as far back in the room as the Yule tree. lol We'll see if I get up the courage to battle that room. If I do, I'll post a picture of the tree here.

The podcast is going quite well! :) I have quite a lot of listeners and get some great feedback. I've been enjoying it so much! I wanted to actually do a podcast tonight, but I have to wait until next week. I'm trying to do them every two weeks so that hosting them won't be too expensive. As of now, I'm paying $5.00 a month and I am almost out of space. I'll upgrade to the next level next month. That will be $10.00 a month. I'm also going to look into way to maybe archive the old shows somewhere else and try to keep it in the $5 - $10 range. We'll see.

Anyway, I hope everyone is having a blessed Autumn.

Samhain Altar 2008

Here is one of the pictures I took of my Samhain Altar:

Blessed Samhain!

I hope everyone has had a wonderful and Blessed Samhain and Happy Halloween! I had a fun day. A friend of mine had foot surgery recently and wasn't able to walk around the neighborhood to take her son Trick or Treating... so.. I took him ... and did some Trick or Treating myself! :D

I came home from that I had a wonderful Samhain circle. I will post pictures up of my Samhain Altar in the next few days. I hope everyone's Samhain / Halloween was as fun as my own.

Happy Witches New Year! :D