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Is anybody out there?

~ Sio

So my Witchy Sister House Mate has a rescued retired Greyhound as a Diva (did I ever mention that said Greyhound has a ghetto-fabulous couch that takes up a big portion of half of the front porch?)... Her name is Ginger ( Read more... )

My apologies for my away-from-LJ time again...

With regards to the bug issue... We have a neighbor that lives beside our new home, whom I affectionately call  "Mrs. Cravitz"... and m'dears, the proverbial shoe fits and she wears it quite well...  But that's not what was "bugging" me today...

I went out to finish harvesting the apples and was having ( Read more... )

I J-U-S-T got done eating the first of the picking from our lovely, hard-working Lady Apple Tree...

To... DIE... FOR!!!

She gives fruit that is the absolute perfect amount of tartness, with just the right amount of sweetness, too!! I'm kinda wondering if she's a good Scottish Apple Tree (heh!), of the MacIntosh variety, 'cause her fruit SURE ( Read more... )

So I sat outside on the porch tonight, long after the sun had set and the moon had swung round to where I could see Her in all Her glorious radiance... and I sipped tea and reminisced about a delightful conversation I had with a dear heart-friend whom I'd had the distinct pleasure and honour of catching up with once again. It was really rather ( Read more... )

Boxes, boxes everywhere...

Some of these boxes contain mysteries. Some of them contain memories that I've fondly (and some at the same time, sadly) looked back over and enjoyed remembering, mostly brought on by pictures of time and people gone by. It's kinda like Yule and Samhain all in one giant Moving Fest ( Read more... )

Maybe it's the fact that some scientist decided to gank Pluto from the Planetary Hall... Maybe it's just all the chaos from having moved... Maybe it's just Me, I dunno... but I've been kinda having the experience of a cheerio bobbing up and down in a bowl of milk ( Read more... )

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Little known fact... one of the Popes wrote erotic fiction.

Okay, okay... so he wrote it BEFORE he was officially in the office of Pope, however...Before he was Pope Pius II, Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini was a poet, scholar, diplomat, and author of a 15th-century bestseller.  The Latin Historia de duobus amantibus tells the story of the illicit love ( Read more... )

Hey, gigglingwizard, I saw this and immediately thought of you.  Reading the whole article, though, it apparently applies to ANYONE and EVERYONE not just having "farm livestock", but also even PETS!

If you have animal friends and companions and livestock for organic food supplies, - any of that... please read this!

Here's the link: http://www.stopanimalid.org/ ( Read more... )