Cats in the Kitchen, Flora in the Garden

The difference of two days. Yesterday was a really good day, we had been forecast gales, the tail end of hurricane Gordon, but it was a beautiful sunny day, and the wind only blew up late in the afternoon. I spent the morning clearing all the now defunct annuals out of the longest bed in my garden. It was lovely working in the sun, and I didn't need a cardigan over my sleeveless t-shirt. The bed looked a lot tidier, I just left the perennials that are still blooming and some other foliage plants. I have not cut back any of the perennials yet, I like to leave them tall for as long as possible. I finished by cutting a huge bunch of white, magenta and pink dahlias, plus a variety of gladioili to display in the house. Then I finished my gardening by sitting down at the garden table with my cup of coffee and book in the hot sun. Bliss!

Last night I had to go out to a community meeting for my whole area to beg for a grant for my Local History Group to enable it to put together a booklet and have it published, the subject being village memories. The wind had got up quite blustery by that time, but what a strange wind it was, the air was really warm when the wind blew, in fact, it could be described as balmy. The meeting was at another village about eight miles away, and really out in the sticks. Standing up in front of a room of strangers and describing my project and saying why we deserved a grant is not something I take to easily. I don't mind speaking and leading a group of people I know, but I have to use courage in front of strangers. As the time got nearer to my piece, I could feel my heart starting to pound. I was wearing my moonstone bracelet, ring and earrings to empower me and aid me, which they certainly did. I managed to get the grant for the group of exactly the amount we needed.



Today started off really well, although it is a more cloudy day. I had just finished my breakfast when my post lady knocked with a small package for me. It was from Lisa at Hand of Enchantment, who had sent me two altoid tins to play about with and alter. It was so kind of her to send me them but not only that, her husband had sandblasted them for me so they are ready to start on. Thank you Lisa. I have had to hide the tins from myself otherwise I would have wanted to start on them right away and I am far too busy until the end of next week with projects to finish.

Instead I decided to get on with my projects, but it has turned into one of those days. I split a box of pins on the floor, I jammed my sewing machine and had to take it apart and put it together again. Then I was snipping edges on something I had made before turning it the right way and snipped right through the stitches argh.................. I am now in a blue funk, have a lack of concentration and feel quite tierd. I have given up the project work for today and decided to write a new posting instead. This is calming me down, except for the fact I am making a lot of typos and my spelling has suddenly become atrocious. I think why I am feeling like that today is because, I have just noticed this, on my lunar calendar, today is the dark hours before the moon starts waxing again. That probably accounts for my low ebb.

I know a lot of my friends in blog world have not been feeling themselves in the past few days. I came across this information by chance today, or was it by chance, when I was looking for something totally different. Apparently, from 23rd August when the moon went into Virgo until 22nd September, today, or rather tonight when the new moon starts to wax is an exceptionally powerful period, especially between the dates 20th and 22nd September when there is an additional potency as the moon is also moving into a new sign which has an inharmonious element and there will be disruptions in the energy of the luncar cycle as this path forms. That is a synopsis of what is happening in the heavens, and it seems to me it makes sense as to the way a lot of us are feeling.



I have had an idea, I know that a lot us are interested in strange occurences that have happened to us or like stories of strange occurences. Well I was thinking that in the week that is as near to Halloween as possible, or even on Halloween, if any of us have time, why don't we all post something on our blogs in keeping with the ethos of Halloween. You could either tell of something strange that has happened to you, or one of your family or just retell a local legend or ghost story you know. It would make for fantastic Halloween posts and we could all visit each others sites to read the stories. What do you think, all of you out there? Anyone like the idea? Lets see how many great tales we get to read by candlelight.