Current mood:

cold

Fall Cleaning and Samhain Preparation
Well, we got our first hard frost, actually more of a freeze really. Our first frost, hard or otherwise, was just yesterday night! I haven't felt right in redecorating my hearth to a fall theme before a frost but now that isn't a problem in view of our recent weather. I think I'm going to do a whole house cleaning as well so the place is nice and clean before Samhain on Wednesday. I've been busy with other things and have only been doing maintenance cleaning. We've winterized the house and put up that gaudy plastic over the windows. I really hate that stuff, but it sure makes a difference!

I've been offering wine (Burgundy), Red Indian Corn and Black Arikana Sunflower seeds on my devotional altar. I grew the sunflower seeds and the corn is from a friend. At the end of the day I put them outside in the herb garden and the chickens generally eat them. Of course, then they lay eggs (some of which are invariably laid in the brush and fields) which seem to be their own offerings. It's the circle of life (^_^)

For Samhain dinner we're having roast rabbit, stuffed squash (we grew ourselves), apple pie, squash pie (just like pumpkin but with our squash), Colcannon with turnips and rutabagas (odd that of all the things we're having the turnips, rutabagas, apples, cabbage and rabbit are the only things the Celts would have had available...) and homemade bread. We're serving a dumb supper as well to honor our ancestors.