Tom and I are tired today. I like having my nestmates over but I also like the quiet when they leave. I spent the morning making chocolate chip cookies as a reward for Tom and all his hard work. Then wrote up our Great Sliding Adventure and Ritual Entrapment for the StarSpring Newsletter (I email out a description of our ritual/grok circle, meetings to our traveling members to try and give them a sense of connection to us while they are gone over the winter.) Phoenix said we should be keeping copies of them and keeping a history of our nest. I thought that was a good idea so saved the ones from last year but I don't have any earlier ones. She would like it if we took more pictures. So would I but I never remember to do it, even though we have a camera here.
Two puppies showed up over the weekend and when I called our new neighbor they turned out to be his. They were back again today and I found their presence distressing. I was worried that the neighbor let them out and then went to work so they would be around all day. They ran back and forth on the deck and I worried about their falling off the high end and getting hurt (and us getting sued). One of them kept going on the lid of the hot tub and I worried that it would get damaged. Then I was annoyed that they shit in my yard. Yeah, I know the deer do it, and the squirrels do it, and the raccoons, and the rabbits, etc. but they live here too. I figure these dogs belong to the neighbor and they can shit on his property. I was really stressed out about it. I have been having a lot of trouble with stress over little matters that aren't worth all the worry or emotion and this is clearly just another example of it. I am attributing this to having been chronically stressed over school. I still haven't recovered from it.
We walked the dogs back over to their house. It turned out that the woman was home yet. And we had a good talk. I feel less stressed about it now.
I posted our Great Sliding Adventure to the WI Pagan email list and this was posted in return.
PAGANS BARRICADE THEMSELVES IN COMPOUND, WI
Pagans barricaded themselves and their unsuspecting guests into a local "nest" this past weekend...strange rites of passage, including throwing themselves down iced inclines....attempts to free themselves were thwarted...finally freed, many left shouting "Never thirst" and "Merry Part".
Cheers, Denise
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