Autumn's Meadow

New Blog

autumnsbutterfly — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:10:30 +0000

I am no longer using wordpress as a blog and only keep this address for a log in for others who require a wordpress address….

Please visit me at

http://autumnsmeadow.blogspot.com/

Or if you are looking for my paranormal blog stop into

A Haunting We Will Go

Getting Started

autumnsbutterfly — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 19:09:03 +0000

I have seen several people using wordpress, so I thought I would try my hand at it. I can always delete it and go back to blogger if I am not happy.

Festival Photo’s

autumnsbutterfly — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 22:50:00 +0000

Here are a few photo’s from the Greek Festival.

Entry to the Church

Inside at the Altar/Pulpit area(not sure what they call it in this religion)

Close up of previous photo

Jesus on the ceiling (this was awesome)

It’s hard to tell, but the photo hanging was made out of tiny tile, and is copied from the one below it.

Dancers

More dancing

Checking out the craft area.

Rambling Thoughts

autumnsbutterfly — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 22:49:00 +0000

I've had a busy day today. My grandson spent the night last night and I got up early so I could get him back to my daughter's. She had to get him ready to go to his dad's house. This weekend is the first time he is staying over night with his dad. He will have him until five p.m. tomorrow night. For the life of me I still don't understand what kind of idiot the judge is, giving a 12 month old child to a man who he barely knows for over night visits. As far as our family is concerned this jerk is just a sperm donor and unless things change drastically he will never be a real dad to the boy. I really hated seeing him go, and wish I could have found a way of preventing it, but the courts have ordered every other weekend visits, and here is nothing I can do, I'm the grandma. And legally have no rights. I do however have a new respect for mom's and grand moms who disappear in order to keep kids away from there dads. If I had the money and a place to go, I think I could take the baby and just drive away. Ok, maybe I'm just over reacting and deep down I know I probably wouldn't really do that even if I had the means, but it does make one wonder just what they are capable of. My biggest fear is that the baby will get hurt while he is in there care. I just don't trust this family. They are a bunch of beer drinking, pot smoking redneck trailer trash ass holes. I'm sorry if that word is offensive to anyone but sometimes you just have to call a spade a spade and ass holes are what they are. I could go on and on about the problems we have had with this family, but this post is already getting long and I am probably boring most people already.
Anyway my husband, daughter and I decided to get out of the house awhile and we took off for a little local fun. The Greek Festival was going on today and we headed that way. All I can say is Awesome..The church was really pretty. It is Greek Othadox and I no nothing about that religion but had a cool church. We had lunch there eating something called Moussaka. It sounded better than it taste, and I didn't finish it. I think next time I will stick to the pita's and fries.
When we left there we stopped in at Walmart, which the hubby opted to sit in the car while my daughter and I shopped. Later in the evening my hubby and I went to the movies and saw The DaVinci Code. I liked it a lot. I had read the book, and was impressed as to how close the move followed it. So many times books and movies tend to vary off from each other
Ok, I've rambled long enought. More next time

Wish List

autumnsbutterfly — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:00:00 +0000

I am starting a wish list and this is the first thing I am putting on it. I have seen this statue in person only once at a local pagan shop. The owner has it on her altar and I was blown away by it. Like most things I wish for this one will probably stay on the list a long time. The average price I have seen it selling for is around $75.00. With the recent move and trying to catch up if I have $75.00 floating around it is going to go towards a bill, or food. Oh well, you can’t blame a girl for dreaming.

MILLENNIAL GAIA
Earth Goddess Altar Statue
(Gaia is a Greek goddess personifying the Earth)

The following information comes from Ritual Magick: Wiccan & Pagan Supplies and I give them full credit for both the picture and information on the symbols

Keys to the Images on Gaia’s Body
Moving outward from Her womb, engraved tattoos on Gaia’s legs display the evolution on life in the seas, from the earliest bacteria and single-celled protozoa, to sea mammals on her buttocks. A key to all the creatures and their eras, is provided.

Similar engravings on her arms show the forests: Redwoods on Her right arm, and the tropical Rain Forest on Her left. Her right breast is a cornucopia of nourishing fruits and vegetables, while Her left breast-over Her heart-is the Moon, whose phases beat the pulse of the ocean’s tides and women’s cycles. In the back of Her hair, tiny creatures trace the evolution of vertebrate life on the land, with braids representing the double helix of DNA forming the umbilical branches of the Tree of Life. The chronological scale is logarithmic, beginning at the base with the Devonian Age, when the first Amphibians crawled out of the swamps onto dry land, and progressing upwards towards modern times. Different geological eras are distinguished by differing background vegetation. Comes with a diagram which provides a detailed key.

At the crown of Her head, the pinnacle of emergent consciousness (“Crown of Creation”) is represented by a Whale over her right hemisphere, and a Human Child over Her left. The child holds a ball-a globe of the Earth.

Around Her face, clusters of leaves representing the fifteen sacred trees on the Celtic Tree Calendar comprise Her hair. A key is provided. Also among her hair are flowers: Rose, Poppy, Hibiscus, Daisy, and Morning Glory. Circling Her shoulders, a Monarch Butterfly represents the Sun, and a Luna Moth the Moon. Other Sacred Insects may be found among Her leafy locks: a Dragonfly, a Scarab, and a Spider.

Tagged

autumnsbutterfly — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 23:05:00 +0000

I found this over at PepperLady’s blog and decided to tag myself.

Five Things in my fridge
1. Milk
2. Sour cream
3. Dip
4. Grapes
5. Diet Dr. Pepper

Five things in my closet
1. Shoes
2. Clothes
3. Photo Albums
4. My husbands Djembe Drum
5. A wooden chest my dad had made for me when I graduated high school

Five things in my car
1. Junk Mail
2. A childs car seat
3. Empty soda cans
4. Loose change
5. Three bags of clothes that I need to drop off to a donation center

Five things in my wallet/purse
1. Drivers liccense
2. Food store savings cards
3. Photo’s
4. Change
5. About $20.00 in cash

Five things on computer desk
1. A bag of chips
2. Old Check book
3. Old receipts
4. A writting pen
5. A diet Dr Pepper

Feel Free to tag yourself

Wheel of the year photos

autumnsbutterfly — Tue, 30 May 2006 11:00:00 +0000

I thought I would post my monthly wheel of the year photo’s a few days early. I have the morning off, the sun is shining and life is moving forward.

The front door has been painted. Last month it was red. Now it is a strange shade of green with olive green trim.

Construction is still going on. At lest they have a trash bin to put it all it.

The log is still under the tree…I wonder if I should toss it in the trash bin

This use to be a laundry room. I don’t know why they don’t just knock it on down. It has looked like this for about three weeks now.

It looks like the neighbors behind the apartment complex are planning on trimming some tree branches. Being the romantic I am I hope some good looking rich man has just stored the ladder there and he is planning on using it to climb up to my daughters balcony window and transport her away to a life of love and happiness.

This last one is of my patio. I wonder, does having tomatoes in a pot qualify me the title of Farmer?

Book Store

autumnsbutterfly — Mon, 29 May 2006 22:28:00 +0000

Never…I repeat NEVER let me in a Barnes and Noble alone again!!
I went in to buy a post card to send to a friend, and the next thing I knew this unseen force was pulling me to the bargain aisle. I couldn’t help myself. I bought FOUR books. I couldn’t leave them there. The most expensive one was only $7.98.
I don’t know what made me buy books. I don’t have time to read books. Maybe some alien took control of my body. Maybe it was a hot flash and I thought that a book cover would make a good fan. I am not sure why I bought them I just did..
Ok, your right, At my age I should stop trying to make excuses. So here is the truth. I bought them because I wanted to…So There!!

Photo Blog

autumnsbutterfly — Sun, 28 May 2006 22:51:00 +0000

I have been out blog surfing and found a really awesome photo blog. If you like this type of thing be sure and check out The Farmers Wife

Cutie Pie

autumnsbutterfly — Sun, 28 May 2006 22:27:00 +0000

oh wow, look at me whoo hooo..Wasn’t I a cutie pie