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napalousa

@napalousa@pagan.plus

love cooking for my family and trying out new recipes. I love nature and gardening. I love, weird tales and folklore about ghosts, witches and monsters. Author of A Gentleman in Hell - a novel about the life of Doc Holliday

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Cat_LeFey, to random
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I went on a walk this morning, and when I get home my husband says, "Make sure to take the rocks out of your pockets before they go in the laundry!"

He knows me so well, lol 😂

napalousa,
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@Cat_LeFey 😄 I have the same problem with acorns. It’s lovely when you reach your hands into a pocket of a jacket and you find one that you forgot was there.

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Woke up with a fever, so my Beltane celebrations will be subdued, oh well. I am still absolutely giddy at seeing the little baby leaves erupt from the trees and the daffodils in their full glory.

Wishing a blessed to all my fellow Pagans conjuring summer in!

napalousa,
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@Cat_LeFey Hope you feel better soon!

napalousa, to food
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So @ahermitforhire told me about his relatives in years past having coke and corn nuts. So I thought I’d give it a whirl. Honestly, I really like it!

Mockingbird sitting on back of chair watching me drink with a ‘what the f you doing?” look on its face.

napalousa,
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@Malleus @ahermitforhire Oh wow!!!

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Some foal pictures from my walk the other lunchtime at the horse park. This is a Percheron foal and he’s huuuuuuuge! At least 14hh. He’s on loan right now. He’s losing his foally soft coat right now. A quick guide to foal body language, the expression in the second photo is ‘Arghh my butt is unbelievable itchy. I just need to rub it on something.’ I would have rubbed his back with my fingernails to loosen some hair, but you’re not really meant to pet the horses (I do anyway shhh) but having an itchy foal using me as a scratching post would probably politely get me kicked out. Sorry dude maybe your mom will scratch your back later!

Foal standing in pen. Itchy foal is itchy. That moment when you have an itchy butt but you can’t scratch because you’re in polite company.
Mare in background eating hay off ground in pen. Foal peeking through bars.

Cat_LeFey, to random
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Took a walk down to the lake as part of my Full Moon activities, and I interrupted some deer having a drink. They stayed close and I got to watch them for a bit. Feels like a blessing.

napalousa,
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@Cat_LeFey That’s so cool!

napalousa, to random
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The Lily of the Valley is blooming!!! This was something the previous owner of our house planted so every time it pops up it’s a lovely surprise. The scent is gorgeous too. I brought some in to put in a vase then realized it’s so dinky it’s too small for nearly everything vaguely vase shaped. Might put a piece in a tiny jelly jar just because.

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So @ahermitforhire wanted something to put the raisins and peanuts for the mockingbird in that wasn’t just leaving them on the plastic rain barrel.

@ahermitforhire has been taking apart a outdoor table that we got free from the neighbors that is basically busted. I found a wooden tray that I no longer use for plant pots in the garage. Wouldn’t you know the two fit together perfectly! So here is our random things bird feed trough. :blobcatgiggle:

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Coastal US people do you use any special words for a sea fog that rolls inland during the summer? I grew up calling it haar but not sure if people in America call it that. A hermitforhire grew up in a landlocked state and can’t help me with this.

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290 — How do you find time to write?

Eh. I have the time. I only work part-time in a day job.

The bigger problem is actually getting into writing as much as I want to.

Right now, Valheim has an enormous pull. Love everything in the game (well, except the trolls, maybe).

Brain always needs encouragement or a firm structure to start writing. Right now, life is not helping with that. Structure is falling apart.


napalousa,
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@Firlefanz I log the dates I write and what type of writing it was. Then I give myself a sticker. It really helps keep the doubt monsters away, helps encourage me to keep trying and is an awesome excuse to collect stickers :blobcatwinkanimated:

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    napalousa,
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    @SpiritBearDreaming Thank you for sharing! I love things like that. I was riding a hairy Highland pony onetime and we were coming around a large hillock in the middle of an open area. We decided to canter (normally pretty laid back) but this time all the horses had a bounce to their stride. Off to one side of us a herd of red deer came bounding down the hill with two stags clearing a fence to get next to the ponies. We were galloping now and for a second or two the deer were running across our path. Happily no accidents, they were too fast to get close but wow the feeling!

    Crazypedia, to random
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    Seen on my Adventures today: Eddy's pizza and live bait

    napalousa,
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    @Crazypedia Winning combination 😂

    napalousa, to random
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    Seriously lacking energy today. Went out into the yard to try and steal some from the sun. The dogwood tree is in full bloom. A starling was singing to me in that manic clickety clack that they make. I wolf whistled at it and it called back.

    Sat by the steps and watched a honey bee go to town on a dandelion. I’ve decided I’m not weeding unless a plant needs some space and is being bullied by another plant. So far there is a jolly combination of yellow dandelions and purple violets, there’s vivid sea of green from the Nigella that has chosen to go almost wild and the mosses we planted a few years ago are doing well. My Coral Bells have finally flowered sheltered under a feathery weed. Well done garden! Your color pallet is much better than I would ever pick and it makes a nice contrasting canopy for all the tiny bugs.

    Dandelion flower seed head ready for the wind to carry the seeds far away.

    MsHearthWitch, to gardening
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    As someone who loves cooking Japanese food it's sad that I struggle so much to find shiso and mitsuba. Probably if I ventured into Vancouver or Richmond it would be easier, but the Asian shops here are not super well-stocked.

    After having such amazing success with leca and my monsteras and pothos I'm thinking maybe I can just grow my own? I don't need huge amounts, so a smol little pot would likely do just fine.

    Ordered some seeds off a gent on Salt Spring Island!

    napalousa,
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    @MsHearthWitch Shiso is an awesome plant. The kind I had, grew beautiful dark red leaves and it has little flowers at the end of the season. It pretty much looks after itself. I intended it to be a small clump, it ended up a small bush. Made some shiso juice which was lovely with fizzy water.

    napalousa, to random
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    Has anyone made wild violet jelly?

    SavahRellcast, to random
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    So tomorrow, before April 1st, before Mercury retrograde, the love-mates and I are going to clean our Altar and set it up in preparation for Mercury retrograde. We figure doing it as a team would be the most effective and we can choose what stays up there and what gets put away, and cleaning everything together will give it good juju. I think it is a really important step just before such a monumentous retrograde. We picked up fresh candles fresh waxes and scents even got new journals to do Shadow work in. We're going to do our best to make this retrograde be as painless as possible.

    In other news,

    Our lives are so busy that Woody and I did not realize that this past Wednesday was our 19th year anniversary. We were aware of it coming up back in February, but then life just gets so busy and it went right past us. We're both really hoping that next year we don't sleep through our 20th anniversary.
    19 years is pretty impressive. A lot of people don't get this far. Or if they do they're not doing it happily. We've been together 19 years and we still love each other, and respect each other, and appreciate each other, and are so grateful to have one another in each other's lives it's crazy. It's been a wild ride absolutely unpredictable and worth every moment.

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    @SavahRellcast Happy Anniversary!!

    napalousa, to random
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    My lovely husband @ahermitforhire with our new broadfork. I had a go with it and it works beautifully. It’s pretty easy going on the back and legs. Hopefully we can get this area cleared and sow plenty of wildflower seed into it.

    ahermitforhire, to random
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    hey @Crazypedia, any chance we could get some stardew valley emojo?

    like this chicken here, etc?

    https://tooters.org/@benerinora/112139524069892869

    napalousa,
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    @Crazypedia @ahermitforhire Thank you!

    napalousa, to random
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    Some spring blossom for you from my walk today. The horse isn’t called blossom but he may as well be. Have you ever seen a horse with golden eyes before?

    A white/cream draft horse looks out of his stall door. He has golden eyes! His lips are seriously in goober floppy mode. I think someone must have given him a treat shortly before I took the photo

    napalousa, to random
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    I’m having a go at forcing a magnolia indoors. I was surprised to see the new leaves this morning. If you like my vase you can get them in the pasta sauce aisle at Aldi 😂 I like them cause they have the measurements down both sides but the sauce is also pretty good.

    MsHearthWitch, to random
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    Omg, I have an interview tomorrow late afternoon for a job at a therapy horse barn and I am unreasonably excited about it. It would be such a good fit and I think I could do the job really well!!

    Pls send all the good vibes.

    napalousa,
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    @MsHearthWitch As a fellow horse girl I’m sending you all the best vibes! That sounds like a wonderful opportunity.

    ahermitforhire, to random
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    since tomorrow looks to be rainy, we’re heading to louisville to hit some used bookstores and our favorite irish pub.

    anyone else doing something fun this weekend?

    napalousa,
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    @westerling Happy Birthday!

    napalousa,
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    @westerling @MsHearthWitch Ooh! Happy Birthday to you both! That’s so cool. I love when things like that happen. In my buddy group at college at least 3 of us had birthdays days apart it was weird but awesome.

    napalousa, to random
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    Watching the squirrels nibble on the new green leaf buds and shoots of the shrubs and trees. They’re always so delicate with the branches. They really seem to savor them. I guess if I’d been eating old acorns and dried seeds, I’d savor the fresh greenery too.

    LordWoolamaloo, to random
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    This afternoon has been largely powered by Tunnock's Tea Cakes

    napalousa,
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    @LordWoolamaloo Ooh top notch tea break!

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