2017 Sam hain Greetings

 

Have a Wonderful Samhain, a Happy New Year, and a Bountiful Harvest

from the folks at The Merry Rose Home, Garden, and Farm
All photos by Mrs. Dashwood

Mom's Garden in July 2017

Always nice to visit home and find pretty flowers in Mom's Garden. July 2017

Daily Oracle Cards vis Colette Baron-Reid

At the Merry Rose Home, Garden, and Farm, it's fun to look at oracle cards designed with thoughtful art and writings. Colette Baron-Reid is famous for her beautiful oracle card packs. Here's a link to her three card daily oracle, with a choice from four oracle packs:
Wisdom of Avalon (Ms. Dashwood's personal favorite)
Wisdom of the Hidden Realms
The Enchanted Map
Wisdom of the Oracle


http://colettebaronreid.com/use-colettes-free-online-oracle-cards-app/

Idaho Water Sports at Jet Ski Island in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

Jet Ski Island in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
For jet skiiers, here's a place in beautiful Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. While the folks at the Merry Rose tend to quieter water sports, many people do enjoy jet skiing. Here's one way to enjoy water sports in Idaho.

https://www.facebook.com/Jetskiisland-225598201168865/

Cucumbers from Healthy Organic Life

Cucumbers are vegetables that provide us with many benefits.
After reading this information, all of us at the Merry Rose Home and Garden and Farm resolve to eat more cucumbers.

According to Healthy Organic Life:
"cucumbers are 90% water, Dissolves kidney and bladder stones, Anti cancer, Heals stomach ulcers, regulates blood pressure, rehydrates the body, relieves headache, promotes healthy skin."

Healthy Organic Life

Recipt for Restoring : "Works Especially Good for Tomats" via The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe

"Works especially good for tomats."
"Pater in caelo

Te oro et obsecroin benignitate tua

Ut sinas hanc herbam, vel lignum, vel plantam,

crescere et vigere catena temporis non vinctam."

Page 214 The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
Written by Katherine Howe

Via online translation:

"Works especially good for tomats."
"Pater in caelo
I beg your kindness and obsecroin

This might allow the grass, or wood, or a plant,

grow and thrive in a chain of time is not bound. "


"A spellbinding, beautifully written novel that moves between contemporary times and one of the most fascinating and disturbing periods in American history - the Salem witch trials."
https://www.bookbrowse.com/reviews/index.cfm/book_number/2290/The-Physick-Book-of-Deliverance-Dane 

Merry Rose Stones Lore : Sapphire

Merry Rose Stones Lore : Sapphire

Sapphire, famous for its incredible blue hues, encompasses celestial heights and human woes. The intense blue stone shares a family of many colors, according to the Crystal Vaults website: Black sapphire is said to lessen sorrow. Other colors, such as green, orange, pink, violet, white, and yellow bring a variety of special gifts, along with wisdom.

"The magnificent and holy Sapphire, in all its celestial hues, is a stone of wisdom and royalty, of prophecy and Divine favor. It is forever associated with sacred things and considered the gem of gems... It was a symbol of power and strength, but also of kindness and wise judgment." http://www.crystalvaults.com/crystal-encyclopedia/sapphire

The Gemological Institute of America offers additional sapphire lore: of royalty and romance.
"Traditionally, sapphire symbolises nobility, truth, sincerity and faithfulness. It has decorated the robes of royalty and clergy members for centuries. Its extraordinary colour is the standard against which other blue gems—from topaz to tanzanite—are measured."
http://www.gia.edu/UK-EN/sapphire-history-lore


Astromandir notes that Blue Sapphire associates with Saturn, in general improving the balance and industry in life. There are also cautions about when to wear sapphire. The detailed chart on the webpage provides guidelines. For those of you, like me, who can't really make sense of the chart, the usual guidelines of wearing a stone when it feels good seem to work.
http://www.astromandir.com/bsapphire.html