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Thursday, September 24, 2026

TBT: A Family Affair - Our Mabon Celebration!


 
My sister Aurora Skye and I had decided to get together a little early for our ritual celebration. I re-vamped my solitary Mabon ritual so that it would work for two people and we kept it fairly simple and intimate.
 
The ceremony included the usual elements ~ casting the circle, calling of the corners, invocations of the Lord and Lady, meditation, blessing of the wine and bread, etc. After which we thanked all of the deities, closed our ritual, opened the circle, and remembered to give back to the Earth.
I made a couple of head wreaths for us to wear during ritual.
 
Aurora brought along four mini pumpkins which she grows herself in her backyard. We placed two on our altar and set the other two around a couple of the corner candles.
 
In the old days after my fellow solitary friends and I would gather for sabbat rituals, we would eat, drink, talk and be merry for the remainder of the evening. These days; however, Aurora and I much preferred to spend some sister time together by hanging out and perhaps doing a little shopping. As much as I really love having a house full of friends and family, sometimes it is nice to just simply relax and enjoy the day! 
 
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Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Our 25th Wedding Anniversary & Blessed Autumn Equinox!

Today is the 25th Anniversary of our legal handfasting ceremony! My hubby surprised me with these little gifts after I arrived home from work tonight ...

Fall/Autumn bouquet.


And, a jewelry set of amethyst (my birthstone), genuine pearl, and larimar set in 99.9% sterling silver (my personal preference over gold) ...

We will be celebrating this coming weekend!

We got married on Mabon (Autumn Equinox) way back on September 22, 2001 and it is now our 25th wedding anniversary on Mabon! 💕

BLESSED MABON/AUTUMN EQUINOX TO ALL!!
🍁🍂🍎🎃🍷🍇🍁🍂🍎🎃🍷🍇🍁

Sunday, September 13, 2026

The bad with the good ...

Greetings all. Well, this has been a bit of a rollercoaster of a week for us. It all began on Monday with Ginger's annual vet check up and ended with some very devastating news about our fur baby Charlie. If you have been following my blog then you already know that we had to rush our kitty Charlie to our local Pet Urgent Care two weeks ago to get what ended up to be a tumor mass removed from the inside of his leg. The Pet Urgent Care sent his tumor tissue out for a biopsy and it came back malignant. They did not know the origin of the cancer (apparently there are three types of which he could have been diagnosed with). So they suggested another specific type of test using the same tumor tissue in order to get more information about what we are dealing with. I called them on Wednesday to find out the results and they came back that Charlie has renal lymphoma. Our only options are to either attempt chemotherapy or continue with palliative care (keeping him comfortable). 


Ultimately, we decided to go with the palliative care. Mainly because I KNOW that CATS AND CHEMO DO NOT MIX!! Long story short, many years ago, I kept seeing a cat chained to an outside dog house at someone home. The cat looked terrible! It almost looked like a dog - half brown fur and half gray. I remember making a call to the Humane Society and they informed me that they had already had a lot of calls regarding this particular cat and that they could not do anything about it because they had already looked into the situation and the family who owned the cat had spent thousands of dollars on this cat's chemotherapy trying to save their cat's life. THAT is why we refuse to put Charlie through that. And, since he had already been diagnosed with kidney disease this past February the prognosis is not good.  In the interim, we are feeding him the prescription food (both wet and dry) twice a day using the turmeric capsules in his wet food.

As far as Ginger is concerned, we had her annual check up and her blood work came back good. She has been taking Prednisolone ever since she was diagnosed with one lung larger than the other which caused her to have respiratory problems. So far the meds have helped her and so we will continue with them.

I have a YouTube Channel where I posted a little video of Miss Ginger fetching her nerf ball, but YouTube would not allow me to share it directly and so I posted the link to my video underneath Ginger's pic below. By the fifth try she dropped the ball right into my hand.  Please click on the link to watch it! 💕💕💕

https://youtu.be/6jXD_-b-5o0?si=m8gZMapE7J9zzaip

Blessed September everyone!

Monday, September 07, 2026

Labor Day weekend

HAPPY LABOR DAY, friends! We had a rather nice holiday weekend beginning with a lovely dinner at a new restaurant called, "Black Sheep Tavern" ...

Afterward, we stopped off at The Sinking Spring VFW for a nightcap or two. While there, we ran into our friend (and my "dance partner" Walt's youngest son), Billy ... 💙💚💛


And, our friends Donna 'n' Dave ... 😎

On Sunday, we spent the afternoon at my hubby's cousin's house for a family cookout and the weather was gorgeous! 🌞

🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🍔🍔🍔🍔🍔