Queenyforever
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Re: Autumnal Equinox
Where I grew up, we did not have street lights. I was in the Mining community of Rovanna, just outside of Bishop, California...High desert, right up next to the foot of the Sierra Mountains...because the "Mine company" was to cheap to have street lamps installed except around the offices, us kids all grew up playing under the stars and moon and in clear view of whatever or whomever wanted to watch!
I loved it....when I married we had to move to San Diego, (hubby was in the Navy)...but when we'd go home, as we drove the 300 miles from San Diego to Bishop, the night sky would grow clearer and clearer and I'd always have to say out loud how much I missed the night sky and the stars.
When I had my son.....we would lay outside (mind you this was MINNESOTA) all bundled up in sleeping bags and watch the meteor showers and the Northern lights...it was magikal. And to think of what my son has enlightened me with....looking back, it was even more magikal than I knew.
I still have to sleep with my bedroom window blind open even if only a few inches, so that I can see the stars and the moon!
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10/10/2011, 9:38 pm
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Fun read, this thread. Not sure I have much to offer it. Ya'll are bringing stuff to the front of my brain I've kept safe, in reserve, in the back, repitian portion, just above the spinal cortex. I like the phrase somebody uses, "the good dark". I may have to steal it. The kind of night sky mentioned I once captioned this way in a prose poem: night sky ocean. The autumn equinox, and the stories involving Mab (or Lug), has special meaning for me. I was born on that day. Mab is a hell of an act to have to follow.
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10/10/2011, 10:41 pm
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Queenyforever
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I'm glad you are enjoying our postings, and I'm even happier that the things of what we speak are making you bring forth memories long stashed away..
I like your description as "night sky ocean"...makes me think of a vast, darkness, alive with wondrous things and possibilities.
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10/11/2011, 5:49 pm
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Saijen SilverWolf1
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Queeny, we used to lay in our back yard when I was growing up, and look at the stars, but there was still way too much light pollution...we were very close to Redstone Arsenal (Army base in Huntsville), and you know how well lit those buggers are! I envy you the ability to watch the stars and meteors and the Northern Lights so frequently.
We have blinds on our bedroom windows, but we never put them down. Where I lay, I can look outside and see some stars, and how bright the moon is, and such, but still not as good as I'd like....oh well.
Terreson, I'm glad that you're finding things here that interest you, as well as finding parts of yourself again. We all tend to push too much to the backs of our brains.
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Queenyforever
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Oh I hear ya....we lived outside Naval Station San Diego, and outside of Andrews Air Force Base and just outside of Bremerton Naval Air station... Like living in the freaking Cowboys Stadium....
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10/12/2011, 6:44 pm
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when this thread started I wasn't even looking for a homestead, and bemoaned the lack of a fire, this equinox.. All has changed, and we can enjoy properly. Every year, at this time, when I sit by a fire, I learn of all the things I need to learn, for the next year. I was rather worried that this year might be a first when this could not happen. The RV park I was on at that time forbids any fires..
What a lucky little wise ass I am...
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So glad you can have your fire.
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10/18/2011, 8:31 am
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Queenyforever
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All things work out for a reason my friend.
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Saijen SilverWolf1
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Muladzh, my brother,...fire can be done in many different ways. Granted, a good actual campfire type fire is best, but if worse comes to worse....a lot of candles, indoors may have worked when all else would not have been possible. Never the same, but hey...sometimes you just have to make do with what's available.
I am glad, however, that you were able to do things your way...and even happier that you now have your homestead...despite the work you need to do. At least it will be the way you want it!
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