July 4!

 When you light a candle, you cast shadows.  (Wizard of EarthSea, Ursula K. LeGuin)

That's apropos of nothing - just a line that caught my eye.  A young wizard wannabe is seeking power, but being warned that everything must be kept in balance.

But back to the Fourth of July.  I had my frickin' hamburger!

Sometime last year my friend Rik  went on a hunt and bagged a Watusi cow - and gave me some of the hamburger.  I still had a couple of patties in the freezer - plus some lettuce and tomatoes and pickles.  I went to the Dollar General and got a bag of Zappo's voodoo potato chips and opened a beer.  It was awesome.  (Granted, I used a couple of tomatoe/basil wraps for a bun - what works, works).

It was too hot and I was too tired to go to Chez Wicca yesterday after work, but I got some handsewing done on Mervin the Griffin.  Today I went down, walked in, and peeked where I normally lean the whisk broom.  It wasn't there.  It was back on the floor in the same spot it's been the other three days.  Today it was joined by a piece of craft foam from the back room, one of Mervin's feet and a ruler from my workbench (also the claws for the feet that I had cut out earlier) and a stick shuttle from the next-to-the-top shelf.

This is really weird.  Four days now the whisk broom (and misc.) have been moved to the same spot.  I cleared it all up - now I'm curious to see if it's moved again tomorrow.  I'll likely be disappointed if it hasn't.  I'm already getting fond of my poltergeist.

Now to settle down, do some more handsewing (Mervin's legs have to be sewn on by hand) and, in the spirit of puppets, watch Dark Crystal.