I am looking foward to the Samhain group ritual coming up Saturday night! I'm going to participate by calling the North Quarter, for Earth, so I'm excited. And nervous! I've only been to one other group ritual, Ostara of this year, and it was weird and awkward. It was about 30 people I didn't know, and the High Priestess doing the ritual didn't seem comfortable, so it was just... strange. But this one should be smaller, and I know everyone else doing the ritual, so I'm sure it will be a completely different experience. I hope so, because as much as I love being a solitary, I do long for shared religious experiences at times too. And the Samhain Sabbat seems a truly appropriate time, since I have more of a handle on the meaning behind Samhain than I did for Ostara. I'm also happy that I am calling Earth, since I am more in tune with that energy than any other.

We've been busy around the house again. Dave has been working on painting our entryway for the past week or so, and this weekend we finally got it all finished. So now the entry and Rhiannon's play area (which was a formal dining room in a previous life) are painted a lovely sandy color. (I even washed the blinds yesterday before hanging them back up, I think I'm turning into my mother.) Now I can stencil in there, and we're done! We only have the hallway left to paint, and the whole main area of the house is painted. My kitchen comes next, yay! I can't wait!