I tried to grow it a couple of times. Both years we went from a spring like winter to hot as hell literally overnight. I even put it in the shade garden but it died both years, multiple plants. That gets expensive so I'm done.
What, if anything, are you doing for solstice? I think I’m just burning some candles and a bit of incense and calling it good this year. Maybe a couple of candles for the ancestors too.
I agree. We listened to the same music as our kids until they started developing their own tastes. I still listened to what my kids did because I kept an eye on them. I liked some of it, some I didn’t for sure and I would tell them why and we’d talk about it. I never said they couldn’t make...
My kids grew up listening to rock music; Kiss is the band that comes to mind when I think of inappropriate lyrics lol. Eminem was big when they were teenagers, my daughter and I listened to him a lot.
Things have definitely changed since my kids were kids. They listened to all kinds of inappropriate music. Much of it we introduced them to ourselves :oops: And movies, and video games lol.
Yule was for three days, one of three blots celebrated during the cold months when the people couldn’t farm or sail due to weather. It was in January, after the solstice, until a king was converted to xtianity and then it was eventually moved to accommodate their holiday.
Romans did use evergreens yes. Yule is a Scandinavian thing, was not celebrated on the winter solstice and did not involve trees in the home. Yule was on the first full moon after the first new moon after the winter solstice, so sometime in January. It was for a good planting season. Christians...