Midnight Musings of Diamond Lil

It started with some prosperity incense Gwen was making for the store... Then she asked her 14 year old son to help her out... Somehow, a lovely smelling concoction, with cinnamon, cloves, ginger and other spicey good smellies acheived an Noxious Addition!!!! We didnt notice it at first...

I usually break up the wafers (she forms the resiny powered spices into 'cookies') and burn the resulting powder, but sometimes I like to put the charcoal on top of a bit of wafer - so we can get a continued burning effect after the charcoal is gone, and the wafer itself turns into a bit of burning charcoal... (at this time we had touches of either the prosperity incense, or purification, sometimes sensual blends, sometime spiritual blends - just things to make the store smell good....)

This week she brought in a new batch (the batch she had her son help her with) - but when we were drying them I noticed something smelling odd by our incense burning area... then we BURNED some of the newly dried wafers...

We didnt register it at first - but I keep on thinking of italian and greek cooking by the incense - something I don't normally do...

Then I noticed it smelled DOWNRIGHT WRONG!!!

I Finally identified what the smell was, and Gwen remembered her son had said something about things not smelling right....

As close as she can figure it out - somehow the powered GARLIC got substituted (at least in part) for the powered ginger...

At a loss to figure out what to do with the weird smelling incense - I put it out to dry at the back of the store - and SUDDENLY, after several weeks of a proliferation of annoying flies (that come in the big industrial fan opening at the top of the building) WERE NO MORE!!! (or at least their presence has been heavily reduced.) I then remembered one organic way of discouraging bugs on outdoor plants and veggies is to spray them with a garlic solutions - something most bugs can't tolerate (well known in my family due to the proclivity of bugs draining the lifeblood from me and my family - counteracted by our MASSIVE reliance on garlic in my cooking (only not in effect when we eat too much food on the run)).

So... I am going to take some of the wafers home - and maybe the combination of the prosperity spices and the protection element of the garlic with turn my vegetable garden into a paradise of edible gifts from Mother Nature - sans bugs!!!!

Will let you know how it goes!!!

Okay - to make this work on Saturday - for a much requested midnight event - I will need Middle Eastern music (on CDs), Middle Eastern type foods (and hopefully some suggestions that can be VERY easily and cheaply made) - btw - I have organically maintained grapevines at home in case someone knows how to make stuffed grapeleaves ;->)

Am also willing to take suggestions for activities or dancers or whatever elso would be doable - including jam sessions with appropriate instruments if you have them and know how to make that kinda music :D

I am sending this out to bunches of folks - hopefully some of you all are paying attention and kinda like the idea of a nighttime goodtime at Esoterica (we haven't do this for more than a year - when and if we do this again will depend on what kind of turnout we get - soooo... if you all WANT this to happen again - bring yourselves, bring your friends, bring family members, neighbors, acquaintances, and any of the previously mentioned items .

PS - If there are folks who you all think might like to get this heads up and participate in throwing this 'party', pass this along - and let them know they have something to do on Saturday night ;->

And in case some of you all read both of my blogs - yes this IS a duplicate!!! I am trying to reach as many folks as possible before my head explodes!!!

// posted by Lilly @ 20:17 (0) comments