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Samhain - 2026
By: Veronica • Wiccan • 36 Comments • 11 Likes • 5 days ago
“The third harvest feast day that ends the Wheel of the Year”
The Wheel of the Year turns. Samhain is the end of the Wheel. It is the last of the harvest feasts. Root vegetables are a mainstay. The veil was very thin and the ritual flowed through me. Apple - Cranberry wine Bacon wrapped scallops as an appetizers Beet Chips as an appetizer Main...
Mabon - The Autumnal Equinox
By: Veronica • Wiccan • 49 Comments • 13 Likes • one month ago
“"Autumn holds a wonder all its own" - Laura Jaworski”
Yesterday was Mabon. The first day of fall - the Autumnal Equinox. Cool fresh air with a slight nip in the air - the smell of apples and falling leaves.... My favorite season of the year. My feast consisted of apple chutney over pork chops, roasted potatoes with apple cider vinegar, carrots,...
41 Years
By: Veronica • A Lasting Remembrance • 42 Comments • 15 Likes • 2 months ago
“Trip to Skaneateles”
Another year has passed and another anniversary has been enjoyed. We spent a glorious week in the small lakeside town of Skaneateles. We had a nice little boutique hotel (no kids allowed). It was comfortable and on a side street, so no street noise. It was in walking distance of the shops and...
LUGHNASADH
By: Veronica • Wiccan • 26 Comments • 9 Likes • 2 months ago
“First Harvest - grains & berries”
I have not added any feasts for awhile, so I thought I would share my feats from August 1st. It was Lughnasadh. It is the first harvest feast. It honors the Celtic god, Lugh. It is a celebration of the the first harvest (early crops), community gatherings and athletic games. The food is...
40 YEARS
By: Veronica • A Lasting Remembrance • 42 Comments • 11 Likes • last year
“Til Death We Do Part”
So hubby and I are celebrating 40 years tomorrow. We are taking a 4 days at a Hilton in Saratoga Springs. We spent 7 years dating prior to that. In essence we grew up together. We have 2 wonderful kids (adults). 10 years ago he bought me the house I wanted even though he swore he would never...
Anything Special
By: Veronica • Generic • 90 Comments • 11 Likes • last year
“Books, movies, vacations, hobbies....”
Anything special or new in your lives? Something GOOD???? Something you enjoyed? For me - it has been a long wet May. Chilly and drab, but this weekend it has been sunny & chilly so we got the area of Summerland set up ( the place we put memorials to lost pets & flowers for lost...
But I Am!!!!!
By: Veronica • Paranormal Stories & Stuff FOR FUN • 96 Comments • 9 Likes • last year
“No such thing....”
My mother recently passed away in my home. My sister stays in the room in which she passed and regularly complains that she is nervous that our mother is haunting my house. I continually tell her, our mother was in a hurry to leave this plane so there is no way she is still here. But the...
The Tunnel
By: Veronica • Paranormal Stories & Stuff FOR FUN • 20 Comments • 7 Likes • last year
“Inspired by the tunnels connecting the buildings of the medical center that employs me”
She hated using the tunnels to move from building to building. She normally would go outside to travel to another building, but today the wind chill was below zero and she was headed to a meeting and wearing her puffy coat would not look professional. She did not want the men at the meeting to...
A Return
By: Veronica • Paranormal Stories & Stuff FOR FUN • 8 Comments • 3 Likes • last year
“Been Way TOO Long”
She sat in the living room, silent. Her mother lay in the other room, comatose. Attached to all types of monitors, beeping and droning. Her ragged breath the only human sound in the house. Beep beep, drone drone , breath breath..... It could drive a sane person insane. She sat in the living...
