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.
5 comments:
Hi Brooke,
Thanks for the update.
On heating, I do something similar to save money in the winter. I basically live out of my bedroom when home with an electric space heater (looks like a radiator and is oil filled, nice and warm). I turn off the heat to the rest of the apartment and have been doing this for a number of years.
It actually saves lots of money as I've compared my heat bill with a friend who lives in the same complex.
I hear people at work complain about how high their power bills are in the winter, but *duh* they often leave the heat on all day long when no one is home. I always turn the heat off at night too, and stay warm with blankets, pj's, socks, and sometimes a cap.
I like the idea of burning fewer fossil fuels when conserving power. Also, the economy is tough right now, so every little tweak helps.
Beth
PECANS?? Yummy!! You're so lucky!
I have my herbs labeled with a Word program too. It makes them so much neater, doesn't it? It's made it a lot easier to find what I need with the labels all uniform. My ex-husband built me a great rack for them, so I have them on the wall which also makes them easy to access. :)
Drag that Yule tree out! Blessings!
Hi Brook,
I was just web surfing and came across your blog. I hope you do pull out the Yule tree. Or, do out and buy a live small evergreen like I just did today. Then, when spring rolls around, you can plant it outside!
BB, Aurora
wiccanlife.com
Thanks Beth! I'm glad I'm not the only one. :)
Yes Freak Magnet having them labeled and organized is great! I never did pull out my tree. ^^; I guess at the point I won't.
Aurora that is a lovely idea. Unfortunately the people around here only sell poor trees that have already been cut down.
Hi Brooke,
I just found your podcasts on Itunes last week and have waited until I finished listening to the podcasts before coming here to post a comment.
I have really enjoyed listening to you, and being from the south myself (Georgia), have enjoyed hearing an authentic southern accent :)
Keep up the good work you have been doing. The book reviews, talks about the magical properties of gemstones are informative and I even enjoy the ramblings, I fondly think of you as "Babbling Brooke" when you get off subject and start rambling :) Hope you don't take offense to this :)
Fred
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