After all the coopting of our holidays by the organized religions of the world, be gracious, be thankful, be abundant and get out there and burn something.
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After all the coopting of our holidays by the organized religions of the world, be gracious, be thankful, be abundant and get out there and burn something.
woohoo! you, too, buster!
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best time o year
Fall is foreplay.
Oh Hell yeah!
Just made the drive to P-Town, and there's plenty around the place to burn. And pre-season passes for Wolfy Pass go on sale today! And my local honey is still single. Life is fucking awesome!
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love fall ! leaves changing is awesome, breaking out sweaters, throwing windows open, top down driving if you got a convertible; it's my favorite.
Go Pagan Team!
Happy time to cover the pool and clean the gutters season!
I was born on the equinox, I feel God like.
yep...snowed while hiking this afternoon
it's fall, yo....very nice
I've always loved Halloween. Loved the parties in college and pre kid days. Loved taking my kids to the best decorated houses part of town when they were little. Love creeping out the yard and house haunted house style and giving out good candy to kids brave enough to come up and get it from us.
Next up is Thanksgiving and that hopefully means skiing and turkey sandwiches Thanksgiving Saturday. Game on until spring..
And so it begins...
Gonna be an interesting winter for me, not even sure I'll be able to ski at all but we're gonna give'r and see what happens.
Well shit iceman, I hope to see you in January, likely my cruise UT interval. Will ping.
good time to work cuz the bugs are gone, shuttling pu trucks for steelhead fishermen, cutting ski runs at the hill, forestry stuff
Are you ready?
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I'm trying to get excited for my favorite season but this damned forecast is harshing my buzz.
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I was up at Killington yesterday. The colors are beginning well up high. Looked good down by Bennington on the way home. Forecast is awesome. Should be primo for at least a few weeks, more if the weather is kind.
Only downside is losing the trails under leaves.
Temps like that into Fall make me antsy. We've got one stray 80 degree day forecasted for next week then it's 70s during the days with night time lows in the 40s.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Mike
I was on vacation in N'ville last month. Super cool place and fantastic, cheap muni golf courses. The weekend looks great for that. Maybe a cool swimming hole after a round (I couldn't find one).Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Mike
Rarely golfed the last few years, but you are correct that some of the local city owned courses are very nice and affordable, which is a rarity in that sport these days. I mostly gave it up about 20 years ago when my friends who were into got established enough to join clubs. I wasn't into enough to make that commitment, so drifted away.
I'm doing yard work (aerating) and watching football today and fishing tomorrow (stream), so that will get me into the water. It has rained excessively this year, and this is the first extended dry spell we have had, so at least I don't have to worry about the water being high/muddy.
It's dry here, has been for a bit. Colors are starting. Leaf peepers is next weekend. Going to a birfday party and fire for my buddy who has been fighting cancer the last 3 years. Air is crisp this morning which some how makes the light jazz tastier with morning Joe.
Was a bit brisk the past couple mornings, but today high in the mid 80s and lows tonight in the low to mid 60s. Scout camp out tonight, right across town. Heading out in a half hour, Going to be really nice to sleep under the stars tonight.
108 sun salutations coming up.
I'm ready🌞
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Originally Posted by TWINS
This equinox marks my 55th journey around the sun. Entering the fall of one's life is interesting.
I always feel more alive in the fall. I get kind of a 2nd wind. I am hoping that plays out as I enter "the fall of one's life."
Burn the grump!
Vinotok would make a top ten list of things I miss about living in western Colorado.Quote:
Originally Posted by goldenboy
I lovw the fall, even out here in soggy Washington.
Me too.Quote:
Originally Posted by riser3
That first day when it just feels crisp and cool outside.
Brings happiness to my soul after suffering through the summer heat.
Spring and fall are my favorite seasons❤
So is today your birthday? I have a friend who is celebrating today.Quote:
Originally Posted by skiballs
The Beautiful Sadness of Autumn: An Equinoctal Magic
In the midst of the harvest celebration, what to do with the melancholy of this season?
Fall is a sensory season, heavyladen with beauty: tables overbrimmed with squash and corn, the nightchill that welcomely pings your skin, woodsmoke in the air, cider on your tongue, the faraway horns of a highschool football game. Gosh, it’s gorgeous!, and front-loaded for celebration.
But not all my friends feel that way, or they feel something else besides: my intuitive friend Lucie gets a deep fear around this season, an acute, visceral sense of her impending demise. Other people dear to me also feel the SADness coming on, even amid the fireworks shows of leaves. Something pulls about the Fall, something tugs, something ebbs.
The feeling begins around the Equinox, around Mabon: it comes with the draining away of light, the steady and growing influx of darkness at the edges of the day. The long languid abundance of summerTIME is gone, the sense of immortality. There is a sense that things are being taken from us.
And they will be, and are. Events, relationships and memories will be left behind. We might feel like we have run out of time to correct our mistakes, to turn things around. It can’t all go with us, carried across the seasons. We make decisions about what to keep and what to feed, what is sound and whole enough to make the journey, and through doing so we choose what kind of person we want to be.
Our sorrow might stem from what seems to be that choice’s ruthlessness. For in one timeline, we cannot be all possibilities, we cannot be all different versions of ourselves at once, so we have to choose one. Sometimes the choice has already been done for us. Acknowledging mistakes and YES, failures is not a popular or comfortable position. So there is a frightened sense as the selves that do not, that will not, make it through to the next cycle, clutch on for dear life.
Maybe that is one reason my friends feel so sad. Everything feels passing, precious, poignant. In the superabundance of mid-autumn, we can see all of it: what we have done, as well as what we have failed to do.
But the failure is also part of the harvest. A teacher of mine told me once that our mistakes are compost for our successes. I make offerings to the Goddess of Failure, she says. I give her all that I did not succeed in doing: all abortive attempts, all miserable rejections, all the things I tried but I could not do, all the people I could not convince to love me. I give it all to her. I learn from my mistakes so that I can be better. I make them into compost so that I can grow my next projects, so I can avoid the same mistakes in relationships.
That is something quite different from abandonment. So instead of feeling like you have to abandon anything, turn it over with compassion into the soil.
Goddess of Failure, part of my harvest is my mistakes. I offer you what I broke, and I offer you all the lessons I learned from it.
There are no mistakes, no real failures: only compost.
And instead of only looking at what is lost, look at what is left, what you keep, the one you’re with, for that is what will sustain you. It is polished for you: cleaned out and pure and glorious and made ready for you, all yours. Place it on the altar of your heart, hard and dearly won. The compost goes beneath.
It is all your harvest. Well come to what is your own. Happy Autumn Equinox!
So mote it be, and blessed be!
Yes it is, and it was a most excellent one. Best to your friend.Quote:
Originally Posted by KQ
Guess it's closer to winter, but this time of year pretty much sucks ass.
Every damned nasty weed and bug clinging to life and/or trying to make seed. Just fucking die already!
Pollen count through the roof, rattle snakes looking for a den, and the stupid ass sun lined up with the east/west roads!
Foosball and all the other stupid teams sports on the idiot box.
So yeah, winter and spring corn season are the only ones worth a crap for my sorry life.
Yeah.. flies are going crazy on their last gasp esp. the Bot flies. They are making my horses crazy. I was looking forward to not mowing but then I realized it's going to be leaf raking season. Ugh. American Plane trees suck for leaves. Great for shade but suck when they shed.Quote:
Originally Posted by capulin overdrive
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Originally Posted by KQ
Equinox is usually still too warm, but we get Yellow Jackets that find their way into the house by the dozens in the fall looking for warmth. Nothing like getting stung in the house by a groggy pissed off yellow jacket.
Not to mention scorpions and rattle snakes. Thankfully i'm 10 miles from scorpions, but have had a baby rattlesnake get into the house through a pencil sized crack on the bottom of a door. Was a long time before i'd walk around barefoot without the lights on!
And another thing that sucks about fall, HUNTERS!
Just spent a couple hours putting up cattle, because the hunters leave the gates open!
Blessings of glorious harvest and feasting to you. Don’t forget to leave a portion aside for the ancestors and the wayward traveler.
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Originally Posted by KQ
2 words..... mulching mower.
The tourism board of Hell, CA would like to use this quote in their next Instagram post. Respond "Hell Yeah" to grant permission.Quote:
Originally Posted by capulin overdrive
P. A.G.A.N. - People Against Goodness and Normalcy