Autumnal Greetings!

Autumn is  such a wonderful time of year. I sure appreciate the cold mornings after the long hot summer.  There he goes again, the chipmunk, Sunshine keeps on poking his head in at the window. He comes over in front of our windows to chew on grass when the sun rises so we have named him Sunshine. He’s no pet and we never get to pet him but it’s fun to watch as he scurries over the rocks nibbling at plants. There was one morning that I was writing in my diary a saw a woodpecker pecking at a juniper tree, I named her Woody. I shouldn’t have  named her I never saw her again and I do miss her. A few days ago when I was getting over a bad chest cold it snowed a little. Though it was beautiful it didn’t last long and melted when it touched the ground. Sometimes I’m envious of the people in Canada with all the snow they get.

Not that long ago Papa got me these cartoon books, they ‘re called Calvin and Hobbes. I am crazy about them, there are two books I have. I even am doing some things that Calvin and Hobbes did like for example they started a club called GROSS get rid of slimy girls club  well I did quite the oposite I made a Tree Star club. Calvin certainly was not very nice to girls but he was at that age he was six. Hobbes was his stuffed tiger, but Calvin was always pretending. So he pretended Hobbes was really alive could talk and sleep and play. So Hobbes was like his pretend best friend. I was jealous of Calvin and Hobbes, so now I have my own little stuffed fox named Farn. We have a high tree that we  can climb up and play in. I called the Tree Star club cause, well for one it’s a tree, for two at night I watch stars in it till it’s my bedtime.

Lately I have been very interested in astronmy I love astromny. Papa got me a space book that had all kinds of projects and stuff. Now I’ve made a astromners log and sighting tube. Papa lets me borrow his best binoaclers too! So often at night unless I have a new book I star gaze and write notes in my astromners log. Papa also bought me a matress, which feels great on my back! Gosh I’m so spoiled and well cared for. At the same time as he got me my matress Papa got me a small world globe, oh my goodness I could not express my joy. I had always wanted one of those. So now I’m using it with school, to help me with both my penmen ship and geograpy I’m writing a story of me going all over the world going to different places like Spain and Norway and stuff which is really fun for me.

We have been listening a lot to RISE and Arborea beacuse they are coming to the herbal conference but also just because they are so good.  Arborea is like the music of the forest spirits or something, if forest spirits played trippy banjo and faeries sang like Shanti.  They will be bringing their children Liam and Shyla and I hope I get to meet them and show them my canyon ways!  RISE is just so good for dancing, it really makes me want to get up and move!

Speaking of dancing, we sure had fun on Halloween, or Samhain as the ancient Celtic people named it.  I dressed up as ghost for fun and then a dressed as a Greenlady and Mama Loba did to. We had a leaf dance to were we gathered a whole bunch of leafes before Samain itself then we had a dance were somebody was the leafer and the other was a dancer and we took turns. The leafer was the person who threw leafes at the dancer as she danced. Mama Kiva was the fluter she played the flute while we danced and threw leafes. It sure was a wonderful celebration of the changing season. I hope you all enjoyed yours as well, but remember that every day is a day to celebrate too!

And please check out Papa’s next insalment of Pitfalls, you got to appreciate the help not stepping in them!

Love to all of you,

Rhiannon (9 years and 3 months)

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