Sunday and Monday

[rowanf]

Russell and I had breakfast at the Mini Gourmet with mr_kurt, saffronrose and Arthur. Then Kurt & Arthur & I headed off geocaching. I wanted to drop a travel bug in Moonfestival Gardens that wanted to visit oriental gardens and eventually get to China. Kurt retrieved it and will carry it off to a TB Hotel in Singapore next week. It started in Ontario back in February and has gone 4,488 miles so far. I'm quite inspired! We also found Daddy Duck and Insect-ful Cache. The latter was near Penitencia Creek so I dropped my Adopt-A-Creek TB in there to start its journey to creeks, streams and rivers around the world. Since I found my first cache on October 2nd, I've found 26 caches in 28 days. I'm hooked! And I'm finaly starting to figure some things out to assist me. I have downloaded .gpx files for San Jose and Menlo Park to my Palm phone. Now if I could get my Mac hooked up to my Garmin GPSr I'd be happy. I need to get a serial connector and cable. Soon!

Then I headed off to the Loa class Mama Kathleen was teaching. She talked about Maman Brigitte and the Ghedes in anticipation of the tea they are throwing at the House next week. I left at 4pm to give myself time to go by The Broom Closet, Zaina's new store in Suisun City. They just opened this weekend and the stop shows great promise. It is in a house and so far they have the front two rooms fixed up with stock. There will be a shrine room and a classroom when they get into full swing. I bought a lovely little broom with a willow handle and fresh broom straw that Zaina had crafted. It smelled so good in the car coming home. Still Suisun City was 1/2 hour north of the Lubisha and it was 7pm before I made it home to have dinner with Russell. He kindly made pasta with pesto which was ready as I stepped in the door. (Ah, the wonders of cell phones!) We had a quiet evening catching up on the movie reviews and the recent Sherlock Holmes episode on Masterpiece Theatre. I did not think it a worthy addition to the canon. It was too much a modern story and the Edwardiana did not really ring true for me. I did rather like the tableau the young ladies were rehearsing though. *laugh* An artform not at all practiced these days as far as I know.

Monday was a normal day at work. Kurt joined me at lunch at Suraj with my friend Laural from the interfaith community. It was fun to visit with Laural and to share that part of my life a little with Kurt. She had never heard of geocaching. Heh, heh. Oh! Speaking of geocaching, slackerstalker turned me onto a women's geocaching mailing list. They seem fairly hard-core (day long biking and hiking trips). I may try a day long hiking trip in November if the weather doesn't turn awful. The hike is meant to be 8-10 miles with 2,000-2,500 of climbing. Eep! We shall see! I expect I'll wish I had a camelback. And better shoes.

Tonight Russell and I stayed at home and gave candy to trick-or-treaters. It is funny not to have a coven Samhain. I do plan to attend the trad Samhain next Friday. And the "actual" this year is 11/9, so I don't suppose I need to feel I've turn the wheel quite yet. There were maybe two dozen children this year. Nothing like last year when we ran out of candy. Russell gets to take the leftovers to work. None of it is Rowan food, so I'm quite safe. Sometimes I wish I actually *ate* junk food so I'd have something to give up to lose weight. Curse my grandmother's fat gene. :-(

Happy Samhain to you all.

Comments

[malterre.livejournal.com]

Curse my grandmother's fat gene. :-( Chances are it's the one that also gave you a chest-at least that's what I tell myself ;-)

[rowanf.livejournal.com]

*laugh* Thanks, but my father's mother is the one who gave us fat, diabetes (a sequela, no doubt) and depression. My mother has a perfectly lovely chest that I rather think I inherited. I know I wouldn't *be* here as me without my aforementioned grandmother, but I do not think her contribution particularly helpful!

[rubibees.livejournal.com]

Happy Samhain to you and your lovely chest, wherever it came from! Hope you write some about the tea coming up next week. Still no power at home for us.