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.

Witches Weekly

Environment

December 27th 2006

Do you feel that environmental awareness is a crucial part of the pagan path?

Definitely. I think that since Pagans have such a huge respect for the Earth and it's resources, they are more aware of ways to help protect it. I try to recycle anything that I can. I try to reduce, reuse and recycle anything I can.