
Michael and Damian were still sound asleep when Ivy and I woke up this morning (they still are!) and now Ivy has fallen asleep against me on the couch. I love this quiet morning. Rain keep passing through, there is thunder in the distance but the showers here now are gentle.
A big change may or may not come into my life in a few months. It is still up in the air but it still makes me plan. I’m a Capricorn, I am really good at turning an idea over and over in my mind for months. Autumn is always my big idea season, many of which are followed through in Winter stretching into Spring. Spring ideas are almost completely garden driven though. Summer is my season for being in the moment. I have little patience for longterm plans when the warm sunshine beckons.
I have a lot of ideas floating through my mind lately, Autumn is in the air. Ideas for the Autumn Equinox, Samhain, even Yule. Some of them are coalescing into plans. Autumn Equinox is already in the works, half done in the gift department. Ivy’s knit hat is done, Damian’s is on the needles. Warmth of winter, a simple gift I hope will be well received. Maybe I will have time to make one for myself (Michael does not like hats but I’ve something else planned for him.) The Greenbluff Apple Festival is less then a month away, I must begin to organize for that. (So is Cirque de Soleil come to think of it, Michael got tickets!) After that onto Samhain, we keep that simple too especially with Halloween’s trick or treating on the same day… Costumes! I’m still thinking Ivy as bear and Damian as lion. Then onto Ivy’s first birthday, big but simple ideas in the work for that, nothing solid yet. Same for Yule, just ideas, though I do know what my sabbat gifts will be already.
Right now though, Lughnasadh has passed and harvest time is most definitely upon us. My dehydrator has been running quite a bit lately, soon it will be filled with apples. I am thinking about harvesting the Italian plums from the neighbors tree to make prunes but the ravens keep getting them just as they ripen. Oh well, they need to eat too (and it keeps them away from my peas!) The freezer is filling up, green beans and broccoli lately. Simple whole foods to feed us in the Winter. Later today I will be hand pollinating sugar pie pumpkins and popcorn (I do not think the bees are finding their way down to the pumpkin flowers into Damian’s dense three sisters garden. The Autumn garden is coming along, shell and snap peas, spinach, radishes and carrots. Simple but delicious. In a few weeks we will going out to a little farm we loved to pick winter squash for pantry storage. Butternut and acorn. I love watching Damian book it across and open field, I adore simple joy of watching my children. Simple can be beautiful.
Damian just came into the room and Ivy is stirring. Time to wrap up this very wandering post. Have a wonderful day.



