My stepdad's family had a fish cannery WWAAAYYY back in the late 1880s to the 1950s. The property was taken over by the Corps of Engineers to build the dam in the mid 50s. They turned the site into a park with a small museum. On the property there are several old walnut trees that the Corp says are diseased, but look fine to us. They plan on cutting these trees down and planting new trees at the park.

We are going down the 23rd to plant new maple and pine trees with the Corp (including the kidlets for a fun day). I have never worked with walnut and would love it if they can give me some branches and stuff to make wands out of, maybe some runes, etcetera.

Has anyone worked with walnut wood before? Does anyone have any crafty ideas what to do with walnut shells?

Thanks!!

For those who are tired of politics, only 7 more weeks to go or so. And for those, this post will not contain any Obama/McCain topics.

This is about religious freedom and the freedom to marry whomever one so chooses. If you don't want to hear about it, please don't read it. Thank you.

I will post a link to our local newspaper, and if anyone wants to read it that is fine. If anyone is interested, I will post my response to this letter in another post.

While I admit I am sick of politics too, there are many topics that affect us and we have right to post about it if we so choose. No one is making anyone else read it.

So, here is the link to our local newspaper and a letter to the editor that made me fired up. It's titled "Citizens' Rights Denied".

http://www.thedalleschronicle.com/opinions/to_the_editor.shtml

I hope everyone is having a blessed evening, here it is fire season and the winds have picked up fiercely. Many blessings to all....and to all a good night, lol!!

I do happen to like Bast and have a feline that is over 10 years old that I regularly "talk" to, and she reminds me of Bast with her attitude.

At least in an online format, but that is better than none!! Paganpages.org, check them out!! They have a profile on here as well, which is great. So please keep your peepers open for when I start writing for them. I am so happy and feel so blessed by the God and Goddess to be given this chance!!

YAY!!!!

Sometimes when I am particularly bummed about something (could be anything) I dream. VIVID dreams where I can still taste, hear, feel and smell everything that was in my dream after I wake up. This little phenomena lasts for about 2 minutes. And when I say I can "feel", I really mean it.......literally....think about it for a second. Yeah, uh huh, that's what I mean.

Okay, embarrassing part out of the way now *blush*, let me continue. This person that I can "feel" in my dream is someone I have not spoken to in over 2 years, I doubt he and I are on friendly terms anymore. He is stationed over in Iraq and his wife and son are in Germany, he should be going home soon though. When we were n school, we were friends, but I was a wallflower and very innocent......he was a party guy who loved to get drunk and high. I fell for this guy like the proverbial ton of bricks.....and I mean BAD. I had fallen in love with someone who had no intention of loving me back, and I was crushed.

The part that worries me is why, after not thinking about him for months, and I mean thinking in the most innocent and general of ways, am I thinking about him now? I mean, this dream was "intense" and I am rather struck this. I know that it isn't really cheating when it is just a dream, but I still feel guilty.

*SIGH* Why oh why did this happen? Things are good between Mike and I now, I have reached a plateau in my emotional rehab that things don't bother me as much.

This guy was major for me, and with the intensity of this dream, I feel as if it wasn't really a dream at all. It was just too real.