Blessings Darlings!

I just read Byron’s lovely article “Food For Thought … and Spirits“, to credit the inspiration for this post.

Byron has a great advantage over me on this one.  The bulk of my ancestors are buried almost 900 miles from me, in two Jewish cemeteries in Chicago, while she lives close to hers.  And she has a different heritage of working with them.  Jews DO visit their cemeteries, and DO work with each ancestor on the anniversary of her/his death, but decorating graves or eating/drinking at the cemetary is right out.  It was a VAST break in Jewish tradition when we planted flowers along with burying my uncle Maury – but everyone at the cemetery service knew Maury and knew that he LIVED in his garden, so knew why we chose to break tradition in this way.

So where do I go now to honor my Ancestors?

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Blessings Darlings!

Wednesday I FINALLY made my monthly trip to the DC suburbs.  I have business to do there early in the month, and I try to combine a lot of things in the trip.  However, it’s VERY hard to drive there without a car … so the trip had to be delayed from Monday when I intended to go until Wednesday, when my car cooperated.  Car needed an offering of a new starter before it was going ANY where.  Or, as we say around here, “O Entropy!  Dread sister of Death”.

Yes, we are Shakespeare sluts.

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Blessings Darlings!

All apologies to Rogers and Hammerstein, who wrote the original words and music to the song “Oh, What A Beautiful Morning”, and to Dr. Who for the second verse, but I feel some filk coming on.

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Blessings Darlings!

Fall is an insanely busy time around here.  The Chubby Hubby has caught up on work after the summer conference he teaches at and is involved in new projects, for one thing.  For another, the weather has finally cooled off so I’m doing more things.  Meanwhile, the garden hasn’t really slowed down yet.

The first thing I did with the cooler weather was…

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Blessings Darlings!

I respect authors, artists, etc – as a result, I take a hard line on plagiarism, as I’ve mentioned before. And I don’t keep silent when I see folks do it FaceBook.  Oddly enough, that doesn’t endear me to some people.  Specifically, it doesn’t endear me to plagiarists.  Which, actually, cheers me quite a bit – if I am to be known by what groups hate me, being hated by plagiarists is a fine thing in my never humble opinion.

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