Graveyard Dirt: Two Worlds and In-between

Requiem

2010-03-15T23:41:40+00:00

Click thumbnail for larger image. House's curse has been lifted, but I'm suspicious enough (of a last second psych-out) to petition the help of Papa. (Our tickets for Mozart's Requiem - the performance we're booked to see tomorrow night - and free coffee from Starbucks arrived on the same day....

Mother's Day, 2010

2010-03-15T23:26:35+00:00

Click thumbnail for larger image. Mothering Sunday breakfast: homemade drop scones, raspberry jam, fresh strawberries and pineapple guava juice....

Making Hawthorn Syrup

2010-03-15T02:19:21+00:00

Cooling recently boiled hawthorn berries (to make hawthorn syrup) while a cover of Purple Rain plays in the background....

Under the Bed Badger

2010-03-13T16:46:16+00:00

Click thumbnail for larger image. After he was stroked, after he was fed, after he was watered, after he was held, after he was told I was going to help him shed the excess baggage he didn't need anymore I carefully lowered his body to the ground....

FUCKING FUCK

2010-03-13T15:41:08+00:00

IT ONLY FUCKING OCCURRED TO ME TO RENDER THE FUCKING BADGER FAT AN HOUR AFTER I BURIED THE FUCKING THING BENEATH THE OFFICE WINDOW....

Good Mail Month (Feb.)

2010-03-13T09:52:16+00:00

Click thumbnail for larger image. AWESOME PACKAGING, ISRAEL, AND I'M NOT JUST SAYING THAT TO KISS THE ASS OF THE FUCKING "HOLY LAND". (<- Last year? Last year Italics bought the Holy Land candles - for our annual marriage ceremony/ritual - and they never arrived. This year? This year I...

Badger, Badger, Fox

2010-03-12T08:50:40+00:00

Courtesy of my Twitter account: Scooped up first ever badger roadkill. The second one we found was too far gone. Don't even ask me about the fox. (<- Too, too far gone.) Italics has already forbidden me to eat any of it, but we're still negotiating what I get to...

Standing On Your Own Feet

2010-03-08T06:45:27+00:00

Do you have any books and/or sites that you would recommend that helped you to get started in your practices of witchcraft?...

Love Magic, Ms. GD-Style

2010-03-07T16:31:56+00:00

Defrosting a raw lamb heart for some love magic. (3 HEARTS IN TOTAL; 1 FOR HEXIN', ONE FOR LOVIN' AND ONE FOR OFFERIN'.)...

Seashells and Rowan Berries

2010-03-06T05:38:17+00:00

Click thumbnail for larger image. Yesterday I sat in front of the backroom's patio door while working on unfinished projects, soaking up the early Spring sun as middle eastern music and cheap ass lemongrass scented incense filled the warm, comfortable silence. (I don't meditate; I'm too high strung. I can...

Red Nightmare

2010-03-06T04:42:56+00:00

Click thumbnail for larger image. The entire neighborhood thinks we're weirdos. And, for once, it's not entirely MY fault. (YES, I DO saunter around the house naked without pulling down any blinds and YES, Italics and I are the freaks that are up in the middle of the night with...

Missed the Memo

2010-03-06T04:24:53+00:00

Click thumbnail for larger image. I apparently missed the memo that we were going to start leaving empty bottles of wine next to the stock pot, heating tray and stale ass Pringles. (I seriously wonder what goes through my in-laws' minds before bed. Granted, this isn't as funny as the...

Home Remedies

2010-03-05T17:56:11+00:00

I swear to God I must be the only fucking witch who feeds homemade chicken soup to plants when she's worried about their health....

It's Happened

2010-03-05T16:59:21+00:00

It's happened. (Maybe it was the daffodils beginning to unfold on the window ledge. Maybe it was the sinuous trails of incense smoke that curled and stretched in the bracing March breeze. Maybe it was the skin warming sun, streaming through the northern window. Maybe it was the music creeping...

Same Old Joke

2010-03-04T18:14:30+00:00

Click thumbnail for larger image. Further proof why you can't take me //ANYWHERE// (especially old historic sites of national importance)....