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Beltane is right around the corner.  It is celebrated on May 1st.  It is a feast day that celebrates life.  Honors the Goddess and the Green Man.  Fire plays a big role in this celebration.  The fire celebrates the return of life and abundance of the earth.  Those with daring would (will) leap over the fires to cleanse, purify and gain protection and healing.  My family does build a small...

I was hoping to spend more time here - writing. I find that and cooking to be very cathartic.  However, life catches up and makes life overwhelming.  Have I missed anything?   So work has been very busy, new hospital data system has gone live and I may or may not have a job in the upcoming months.  I am getting too old to be looking for another job.  The good thing is I can come home and be...

Taken with my phone, with maximum "zoom" (which is just digital zoom, so lost quality...  ) I don't know one bird from another, but a Google search tells me it is probably a Grey Hawk . And on the road, on the way home: It had already been run over... but it was still moving so I stayed a safe distance away!

I really do not enjoy cooking with canned soups, so I located and modified a recipe for condensed cream of chicken soup:  I use this in any recipe that calls for condensed cream of anything soup. 1 cup cold milk 2 Tbsp cornstarch 1 1/2 Tbsp butter 1 tsp chicken bouillon 1/2 tsp salt ⅛ black pepper ¼ tsp onion powder ¼ tsp garlic powder ⅛ tsp dried parsley Instructions:...

There are many paths that can be followed when it comes to Wicca.  A person can be a solitary or join a coven.  I am a solitary.  This means that I perform my rituals alone.   There are many different ways to perform rituals or magick.  I use candle magick.   Rituals can be performed whenever.  I do them when the mood strikes me, when asked to perform one by a family member or a friend and at...

I am Wiccan and I follow the path of the Morrigan.  This is a triple Goddess (Maiden, Mother and Crone).  You do not choose the Morrigan - She chooses you.   I am hoping over the coming days to add Tarot Readings, Pendulum Readings and other "witchy" stuff. 

Food Porn: American Chop Suey By T. Fargo Original post from Newsvine published Fri Apr 18, 2014 8:21 AM     What is chop suey? In Chinese, the two characters for chop suey are pronounced "tsa sui" in Mandarin or in Cantonese "shap sui," meaning "mixed small bits" or "odds and ends." As a culinary term, shap sui refers to a kind of stew made of many different ingredients mixed together.  In...

  Cocktail sauce was popularized in the U.S. in the 1920.  While cold sauces were popular, the unusual ingredient of horseradish (Which was brought to the U.S. via southern Europe and western Asia) made a sauce that some thought was born out of a dare.  Nostril cleaning, citrusy chili sauce with the sweetness of tomatoes?  It just sounds like a dare that happened to be delicious.   I place a...

I'm a history buff, so I've dragged my wife along to visit any number of ghost towns here in the Southwest. The best, by far, is only a forty-five minute drive from Yuma... but mostly over unfinished roads. So Castle Dome has all three of the ideal characteristics for a tourist spot: intrinsic interest, photogenic, ... and very few tourists! It's a great place for "impressionist...

And if you like to pick berries... be VERY careful...