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. :)
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Sunday, November 23, 2008
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.
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.
Friday, November 7, 2008
Friday, October 31, 2008
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
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
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Mabon
As promised, here is a picture of my Mabon Altar. I took this before I started. The 'cake and ale' weren't on the Altar yet. :)
Monday, September 22, 2008
Mabon
I hope everyone has a Blessed Mabon / Autumn Equinox. :) I had a lovely day. I took pictures of my Mabon altar. I will post them here soon.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Witches Weekly
Purpose of Pagan Pride Day
September 11th 2008
What do you feel the purpose of Pagan Pride Day is? We are in the month of Pagan Pride around the nation in he U.S., and many pagans have had mixed feelings over the years. Do you feel it is just a day to gloat about being pagan, or do you think the genuine purpose behind it is to show that there are strong pagans in every community?
I think the purpose is for Pagans to get out and meet one another. It's a good chance to meet other Pagans that you may not have known where Pagan. It's good for the community to see that we aren't a bunch of weirdos that sacrifice babies and goats too!
September 11th 2008
What do you feel the purpose of Pagan Pride Day is? We are in the month of Pagan Pride around the nation in he U.S., and many pagans have had mixed feelings over the years. Do you feel it is just a day to gloat about being pagan, or do you think the genuine purpose behind it is to show that there are strong pagans in every community?
I think the purpose is for Pagans to get out and meet one another. It's a good chance to meet other Pagans that you may not have known where Pagan. It's good for the community to see that we aren't a bunch of weirdos that sacrifice babies and goats too!
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