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<\/a><\/p>\nIt was a fabulous night. \u00a0I and my covenmate got together early in the day, where early still means afternoon. \u00a0After all, I’m just not that much of a morning person. \u00a0Our first stop of the night was to pick \u00a0up meal, snack and mead provisions.<\/p>\n
I will say now, the mead didn’t make it. \u00a0It was my first attempt. \u00a0Our eyes glistened with sadness. \u00a0It was horrible.<\/p>\n
Okay, phew, got that hard part over with.<\/p>\n
While most of what we did I won’t be sharing (sshhhh, it’s a coven secret LOL really most of it was only interesting to us), the start of the night was sharably entertaining.<\/p>\n
As twilight fell we attempted to leave my apartment to go visit Grandma Willow and do our first ritual of the night. \u00a0Yes, attempted to leave. We were a tad inebriated. \u00a0It was fabulous, don’t get me wrong, but it led to a few false starts. \u00a0But I’m slightly ahead of myself.<\/p>\n
We bundled up, all nice and cozy and warm for an evening of walking. \u00a0I’ve got my long, black wool diva coat on (others have described it that way, it’s not my own label! lol), my Wicked (TM) witch hat (I adored that musical) on and some funky make-up. \u00a0My covenmate was in her robes. \u00a0We’re headed out the door and as we walk through it I commented “You know, for most people it’s come as you aren’t night.”<\/p>\n
It took her a second and then we were both laughing. \u00a0She made a fabulously witty comeback which I’m so ashamed to say escapes me now and we headed to the elevator.<\/p>\n
But shit! We’d forgotten the offering of mead. \u00a0Back in we went, filled a small tupperware container with some mead which went into my coat pocket since neither of us were carrying a bag and then we were back at the door. \u00a0I looked at her, at the door, and what did I say? \u00a0“You know, for most people it’s come as you aren’t night.” \u00a0We both snicker as she says her fabulously witty comeback and head back to the elevator.<\/p>\n
Ah, crap. \u00a0No gloves. \u00a0The giggling has already started as we head back through my front door. \u00a0I’m falling over as we get back to the door, gloves in hand and I have to say “You know, for most people <snicker> it’s come <snort> as you aren’t night.” \u00a0My covenmate can barely talk as she gets our her rebuttal and we flee to the elevator.<\/p>\n
We’re at the elevator and I have that horrible moment, “You know, I forgot–”<\/p>\n
“Don’t even say it.”<\/p>\n
We didn’t go back again. \u00a0I don’t think we could have lived through it. \u00a0We wouldn’t have been able to breathe.<\/p>\n
Out the door and off to Grandma Willow (yes, the same one in my Grandma Willow post). \u00a0Unfortunately, the lid came off the tupperware and by the time we arrived we only had half of the offering left to give. \u00a0And I spent the rest of the night reeking like an English pub. \u00a0Made me thirsty. \u00a0From there we went on a meandering walk back to my place, through the side streets filled with trick-or-treating kids and decorated houses.<\/p>\n
And a lot of people with little dogs.<\/p>\n
Every time I saw one of those, I cried out “Damn you, Toto! \u00a0It was your fault! \u00a0I know it was.” \u00a0That made for a lot of laughter on my side and on theirs. \u00a0The dogs didn’t seem to care.<\/p>\n
On one house there was a large video screen stretched out from the balcony railing to roof playing The Blob, entertaining the adults while the kids went up to the house.<\/p>\n
We passed a particularly friendly fellow and I insisted that my covenmate get her picture taken with him.<\/p>\n
There was this one apartment building near my place where a group of residents had gotten together and done a wonderful set up in their front lawn. \u00a0Though the best part was the very movie style zombie wandering up to two blocks away who would come towards you with brain stealing intensions clearly written on his empty face.<\/p>\n And my final picture for you is of the “Smash Me” pumpkin. \u00a0I can’t help but wonder, did it survive the night? \u00a0What do you think? \u00a0What are the odds?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We spent some time in a coffee shop chatting about all kinds of wonderful things and then it was back home to cook dinner for us and the anscestors and watch some Halloween classics: \u00a0the original Halloween and Wizard of Oz. \u00a0In and amongst that was more ritual. \u00a0What more can be said than:<\/p>\n Happy New Year to all! \u00a0And to all a Good Night.<\/p>\n ~The Abysmal Witch<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Okay, yes, I’m a little slow, but hey, I have at least one silly story and some fun pictures to share. \u00a0Like this one It was a fabulous night. \u00a0I and my covenmate got together early in the day, where early still means afternoon. \u00a0After all, I’m just not that much of a morning person. … Continue reading Samhain Memories<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,7,11],"tags":[113,209,230,235,296],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n