This Means War!

Do you know of the hell of the carpenter bee? Carpenter bees get their common name from their habit of boring into wood to make galleries for the rearing of young. These are worldwide in distribution with 7 species occurring in the United States. They don't have a hive as honey bees, but are solitary bees.The female Carpenter bee can get into small areas,boring holes. They are perfectly round, about 3/8 " in diameter.

How do you kill them? I am at war with them. They are drilling holes in my porch that I went at hanging off a ladder to plug them up, I dance around the yard with a fly swatter and smack them down so I can rush over and stomp them, I spray them, and yet they buzz still yet. They have insane exo-skeletons, maybe a sledgehammer, or string their dead bodys on a piece of string as a spoil of war and as a warning to the others?

The males can't sting me, and the only reason I am brave enough to fight this war.

A Moment to be serious

Sometimes you just don't get enough of those, and here is the thing if you don't balance right between your seriousness and your craziness then you end up on sided over the other in the eyes of other people. I know these things to be true. I also know that I'm caught in a bad place because of this. Emotionally I am suffering because of it.

What can you do? How do you get a good change going for you if everyone around you is rooting you deep in the thing that you're really not? How do you keep the people around you from tearing apart the small and hopeful fragments of your stability? They don't know of course, because you haven't told them. You haven't told them because they think you are stronger than you really are. In fact they think they're funny. What a terrible combination.

Here comes the kicker, you want to believe it. That's why you're not saying anything about it. That's why day after day you sit there wondering what to do and don't take actions, because you believe you are strong enough to deal with on your own. Who do you tell? Who is going to offer up their "funny" advice, that in the end is going to make you angry you even said a word.


A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.
Louisa May Alcott1832-1888, American Author

Big red Bench pt. 2

Without much further ado I now have the rest of the photos for the photomentary of my big magickal red bench adventure. The red looks quit sticking no? Well I liked it at least, and yes it was still raining. I did the top half of the bench before I went to sleep on the day of the posting of the finished unfinished bench. I figured in the morning I could flip it and paint the bottom, because after reading the paint can I found out it takes the paint a good while to dry.

And there it stands. Finished. The next morning before I ran away to do the things that needed to be done with my day I flipped and painted the bottom of the bench. On getting back home I flipped it back over and took its picture.

I've been thinking now that I should paint a few, lets say 5 stars on the upper right side of the bench. Why? I was think the big red bench of china could be fun considering the color choice. No? Maybe so....

Rustic Bench Unfinished pt. 1

This is a bench. This bench I made, and before it gets any judgement...I know nothing of making benches. I had spare wood, and some time on my hands. Why is this bench ugly, and in my kitchen? I can explain.

It started out being outside when it was lovely and sunny, but it turned cloudly and stormed on me. So I brought everything inside so it could be finished. Still not finished. I am going to paint it red tomorrow. Why red? Its the only color I have that is for outdoor use. I could buy a different color, but that would make my bench worth something. I call it, found bench in a pile of stuff. Until tomorrow.

Pentacle Plantacle

After such much blood sweat and tears I have done it. My second herb garden is complete. That my friends is a whole lot of bricks. the path ways were going to be two bricks wide, but when I was getting the bricks loaded up from my mom's old house I touched a snake panicked and ran away with only 125 bricks. Snakes win the brick pile every time.

Anyway the plants look tiny and unimportant as of now, but soon very soon it will be amasing looking. With the help of Edwin my gnome my second herb garden will kick much ass. Hooray!

Tempest Smith

On February 20, 2001, a young girl named Tempest Smith killed herself in Lincoln Park, Michigan. Her suicide was directly caused by the taunting of other students at Lincoln Park Middle School who mocked her because she was different and because she was Wiccan. This is a dramatic and extreme example of hundreds of everyday cases of prejudice based on religion. Even those who would never make a racial or gender based slur may still discriminate based on religion, because many faiths teach that their religion is the only right one. We know that change is made one person at a time. So in memory of Tempest Smith and millions of victims of religious discrimination worldwide, I present to you the Pagan Pride Project pledge.

I remember Tempest Smith.
I remember that it's never right to make fun of someone's beliefs.
I remember that sticks and stones can break my bones, but names are words of power that can wound the soul.
I remember that many mocked and one died.
I remember Tempest Smith.
I remember that it takes all types to make a world.
I remember that nature likes biodiversity. This is true of beliefs and ideas as well.
I remember that I make a better witness to my own beliefs by simply living them, not belittling others.
I remember Tempest Smith.
And I remember that another person's belief (or nonbelief) is just as sincerely held as my own.
I remember to have the courage to say, "Hey, that's not right." when I see someone being ridiculed.
And the next time I am tempted to go along with the crowd and tease someone who is different, I will remember Tempest Smith, and I will remember my pledge.
Because what is remembered lives.

Wool of bat?

eye of newt anyone? Fear not! Things are never really want they seem. Witches really aren't so scary. If you visit your grandma she might know some of these. They were just folk names of herbs, not plucking out anyone's eyes, heart, tongue or else wise.

Here are some old time names for herbs:

A Bone of an Ibis: Buckthorn
Adders Tongue: Dogstooth Violet
A Titan's Blood: Wild Lettuce
A Lion's Hairs: Tongue of a Turnip [i.e., the leaves of the taproot]
A Man's Bile: Turnip Sap
A Pig's Tail: Leopard's Bane
A Hawk's Heart: Heart of Wormwood
An Eagle: Wild Garlic
Ass's Foot or Bull's Foot: Coltsfoot
Blood: Elder sap or another tree sap
Blood of Hephaistos: Wormwood
Burning Bush: White Dittany
Bread and Cheese Tree: Hawthorne
Blood from a Head: Lupine
Bird's Eye: Germander Speedwell
Blood of Ares: Purslane
Blood of a Goose: A Mulberry Tree's Milk
Bloodwort: Yarrow
Blood of Hestia: Camomile
Blood of an Eye: Tamarisk Gall
Blood from a Shoulder: Bear's Breach
Bat's Wings: Holly
Black Sampson: Echinacea
Bull's Blood or Seed of Horus: Horehound
Bear's Foot: Lady's Mantle
Calf's Snout: Snapdragon
Cat's Foot: Canada Snake Root and/or Ground Ivy
Candelmas Maiden: Snowdrop.
Capon's Tail: Valerian.
Christ's Ladder: Centaury
Cheeses: Marsh Mallow
Chocolate Flower: Wild Geranium
Christ's Eye: Vervain Sage
Clear-eye: Clary Sage
Click: Goosegrass
Cucumber Tree: Magnolia
Clot: Great Mullein
Corpse Plant: Indian Pipe.
Crowdy Kit: Figwort
Cuddy's Lungs: Great Mullein
Crow Foot: Cranesbill
Cuckoo's Bread: Common Plantain
Clear Eye: Clary Sage
Crow's Foot: Wild Geranium
Devils Dung: Asafoetida
Dragon's Blood: Calamus
Dog's Mouth: Snap Dragon
Daphne: Laurel/Bay
Devil's Plaything: Yarrow
Dove's Foot: Wild Geranium
Dew of the Sea: Rosemary
Dragon Wort: Bistort
Earth Smoke: Fumitory
Eye of Christ: Germander Speedwell
Elf's Wort: Elecampane
Enchanter's Plant: Vervain
Englishman's Foot: Common Plantain
Erba Santa Maria: Spearmint
Everlasting Friendship: Goosegrass
Eye of the Day: Common Daisy
Eye of the Star: Horehound
Eye Root: Goldenseal
Eyes: Aster, Daisy, Eyebright
Frog's Foot: Bulbous Buttercup
From the Loins: Camomile
Fat from a Head: Spurge
Fairy Smoke: Indian Pipe
Felon Herb: Mugwort
From the Belly: Earth-apple
From the Foot: Houseleek
Five Fingers: Cinquefoil
Fox's Clote: Burdock
Graveyard Dust: Mullein
Goat's Foot: Ash Weed
God's Hair: Hart's Tongue Fern
Golden Star: Avens
Gosling Wing: Goosegrass
Graveyard Dust: Mullein
Great Ox-eye: Ox-eye Daisy
Hairs of a Hamadryas Baboon: Dill Seed
Hair of Venus: Maidenhair Fern
Hag's Taper: Great Mullein
Hagthorn: Hawthorn
Hare's Beard: Great Mullein
Herb of Grace: Vervain
Hind's Tongue: Hart's Tongue Fern
Holy Herb: Yerba Santa
Holy Rope: Hemp Agrimony
Hook and Arn: Yerba Santa
Horse Tongue: Hart's Tongue Fern
Horse Hoof: Coltsfoot
Hundred Eyes: Periwinkle
Innocense: Bluets
Jacob's Staff: Great Mullein
Joy of the Mountain: Marjoram
Jupiter's Staff: Great Mullein
King's Crown: Black Haw
Knight's Milfoil: Yarrow
Kronos' Blood: of Cedar
Lady's Glove: Foxglove aka Witches' Gloves
Lion's Tooth: Dandelion aka Priest's Crown
Lad's Love: Southernwood
Lamb's Ears: Betony
Little Dragon: Tarragon
Love in Idleness: Pansy
Love Leaves: Burdock
Love Lies Bleeding: Amaranth or Anemone
Love Man: Goosegrass
Love Parsley: Lovage
Love Root: Orris Root
Man's Health: Ginseng
Maiden's Ruin: Southernwood
Master of the Woods: Woodruff
May: Black Haw
May Lily: Lily of the Valley
May Rose: Black Haw
Maypops: Passion Flower
Mistress of the Night: Tuberose
Mutton Chops: Goosegrass
Nose Bleed: Yarrow
Old-Maid's-Nightcap: Wild Geranium
Old Man's Flannel: Great Mullein
Old Man's Pepper: Yarrow
Oliver: Olive
Password: Primrose
Pucha-pat: Patchouli
Peter's Staff: Great Mullein
Priest's Crown: Dandelion leaves
Poor Man's Treacle: Garlic
Queen of the Night: Vanilla Cactus
Queen of the Meadow: Meadowsweet
Queen of the Meadow Root: Gravelroot
Ram's Head: American Valerian
Red Cockscomb: Amaranth
Ring-o-bells: Bluebells
Robin-run-in-the-grass: Goosegrass
Semen of Helios: White Hellebore
Semen of Herakles: Mustard-rocket
Semen of Hermes: Dill
Semen of Hephaistos: This is Fleabane
Semen of Ammon: Houseleek
Semen of Ares: Clover
Seed of Horus: Horehound
Sparrow's Tongue: Knotweed
Soapwort: Comfrey or Daisy
Shepherd's Heart: Shepherd's Purse
Swine's Snout: Dandelion leaves
Shameface: Wild Geranium
See Bright: Clary Sage
Scaldhead: Blackberry
Seven Year's Love: Yarrow
Silver Bells: Black Haw
Sorcerer's Violet: Periwinkle
St. John's Herb: Hemp Agrimony.(this is not St. John's Wort)
St. John's Plant: Mugwort
Star Flower: Borage
Star of the Earth: Avens
Starweed: Chickweed
Sweethearts: Goosegrass
Tarragon: Mugwort
Tartar Root: Ginseng
Thousand Weed: Yarrow
Thunder Plant: House Leek
Tanner's Bark: Common Oak
Toad: Toadflax
Torches: Great Mullein
Tongue of dog: houndstongue
Tears of a Hamadryas Baboon: Dill Juice
Unicorn Root: Ague Root
Unicorn's Horn: False Unicorn:Helonias Dioica
Unicorn Horn: True Unicorn Root
Wax Dolls: Fumitory
Weazel Snout: Yellow Dead Nettles/Yellow Archangel
White: Ox-eye Daisy
White Wood: White Cinnamon
Witch's Asprin: White Willow/Willow Bark
Witch's Brier: Brier Hips
Weasel Snout: Yellow Archangel
Wolf Foot: Bugle Weed
Wolf Claw: Club Moss
Wolf's Milk: Euphorbia
Weed: Ox-Eye Daisy
White Man's Foot: Common Plantain