Samhain

It was a rainy cold Samhain for us this year but the response to the home made caramel apples was warm and the kids thought it was great. I need to find a better caramel recipe for next year something a little more towards toffee than caramel. I will need to find something tall to do the dipping in since most of my pots don't have that slim shape. I really need to find a place for privacy for sabbats, I just don't get anything done when the whole house is watching me. I don't know why, I have this fear, phobia, and I need to work through this. It is almost one of those block things that stand in the way of Karma and that whole thing of dealing with our past in order to find my karmic path. The spot that I have figured out will work perfectly.
The wheel is turning to the cold of winter, the dark of the year, the time to study, cook and craft. I will plan my garden, set up my space to craft with the tools that I have managed to collect. I will have the spaces, organized to purpose, in order to make our lives simpler and more easily managed. I will use the time of darkness to study the laws, economics, availability, and viability of our dream business. A business plan for our future and our son's futures to give my husband that gift. I want to put the next part of my garden's foundation as well, there are bits to finish and there are new bits to go in including the front medicinal herb garden possible gardens.
The oval centre raised bed with 4 stretched triangular beds on the outside corners with the tree in the centre is going to look great. If I stick with native medicinal plants, teas, spices and small fruits it will look great mix in a few vegies in some of the beds as well as flowers and the beginning of the switch to edibles will be in full swing.
Tinctures and teas, vegies, and fruit and I will be half food secure.