In the doing and the dancing

Doing and dancing.

 Today has been sponsored by bees and frogs. Now the sun has come out, the garden is in bloom (front and back) and there are hundreds of bees. Now granted our street is a gravel graveyard of non flowers, still the quantity and size of the bees (big fat bubbles) is lovely. I imaging as the big brair rose (white) is just coming into flower they are going to really enjoy that. Now bees are important (and awesome) and endangered so anything that helps bees is good. I even rescued one from a cauldron of rain water while doing a bit of spell work. (Come on people BUY MY BOOKS)  
Then there is Senor Froggetote who seems to live in my raised bed. He always stops, as if to just say, "Hey!" but hops off before I can pet him (no, I am not squeamish, and this guy eats things that eat my FOOD!) Anyway I had to move the lovage from the bed, because even with cutting it back three times it was just frickin enormous and I got TK (see trying not to over do it) dig me a big hole and I transplanted it about 3 feet away into the actual soil of the garden (mostly clay and misery). I did give it lots of compost and water and it still looks fine. My aim is to plant plants I like and are useful, but grow like weeds in my garden (self seed away!) Partially because I can not physically keep up with it to be neat, but messy and useful seems like the general theme of our house anyway!This "technique" means that I get lots of birds and bees and frog (and slugs and snails and ants) and plants and food. In my front garden the flowers rule. The peony, the roses, yellow iris, the St Johns Wort, the stuff I have yet to find the name for that has pink flowers, and the Melissa (lemon balm) all compete furiously with one another. Other than having to cut back all the time to get up the path, it works well (this maybe because this garden has soil, rather than just clay and misery).

Spuds

I have also be sorting and drying a load of Angelica seeds (Blessing seeds) kindly donated by my green fingered witch friend.

This is after it was dried in a low temperature oven for a couple of hours and before and hand rubbed it and picked out the stems. (I used those in my spell work, the sweet smell of success..) They are sitting in a jar waiting for the next batch to join them before I do so sieving and putting them in their final large jar.

So the spell work was to take a key and wrap a cheque made out to me for a certain amount of money, to me. I then made a pile of success and money herbs and on a patch of bare earth set fire to it, the key and cheque with the pile. When it was burnt, I quenched it with rain water.Then I scrubbed my key clean and tied it to by diary.

It has been a good day. I am sure I could potter about a bit more, but I want to make sure I don't over do it. Stupid IgA Nepoopithy.