Month: June 2025

Good morning readers! So, I’ve been eyeballing this thing I seen on Amazon for some time, maybe 2 years? And finally, as I’m watering my pollinator flowers I noticed something was missing, the pollinators themselves! I haven’t had any butterflies come vist except for moths, which is nice but I’d like to see some of their other cousins (this is where the “thing” from Amazon comes into play). It’s a stem research, technically it’s for kids but it comes with live caterpillars, but who doesn’t like to look at wriggly caterpillars? Let’s brew about it!

I ordered the Insect Lore Butterfly Garden, they had 2 different options where you can get either 5 or 10 caterpillars,( I went with 5) a butterfly enclosure, a stand for your caterpillars once they’ve spun their chrysalis, an activity booklet and some sugar for when they’ve hatched. Now, again, it’s meant for kids but it’s cool to see these little guys bustle around. Of course after being shipped in a box from California, they were a bit lethargic but after a dose of kitchen light they were moving and grooving. Instructions stated no direct sunlight and since my back patio has the feline persuasion waltzing freely back there I felt it safer for them to be inside.

I feel like this would be great for kids through out the year, especially for summer or even homeschool because the activity book helps define the different parts of the butterfly as well as a log to draw with for each day they are in their little space. However, it’s nice to see them even as an adult grabbing coffee in the morning.

Now, my next thought that crossed my mind, one is there a way to get more caterpillars and 2 what plants do these butterflies like? The butterflies or soon to be, enjoy cone flowers, lupine and other sorts of flowers(oh damn I have to get more flowers). and these little beauties are none other than Painted Lady butterflies. I’m super excited to see these guys transform at the moment they have spun their cocoons so I’ll need to switch them up relatively soon in their side ways capsule. But to answer my first question Insect Lore DOES have an option to buy just the caterpillars, for 15 dollars which isn’t bad. In fact I may buy more. What are your thoughts? Would you be interested in having these cute critters? I can’t wait to see them hatch!

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Good morning everyone! I’ve been practically brimming with joy, skipping around watering the garden like a water faerie. Why you ask? Because there has been some rumblings about a sequel to the movie Practical Magic. Growing up Practical Magic was one of our household favorites, chocolate cake for breakfast and pretending to practice magic in the garden. However, After hearing about the sequel I binged read the book, and BOY are there some huge differences between the two, let’s brew about it!

Practical Magic, the movie was brought to life back in 1998 with amazing actresses, Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman both of which will be reprising their roles. Nothing about the story line for sequel has been mentioned yet, so it seems to be a bit tight lip, the only squeeze so far is that it’s coming out next year in 2026. Now, getting excited I read the book. Spoiler alerts, here we come, so Sandra Bullock’s character, Sally, doesn’t stay with the aunts after her husband dies but rather takes her girls and whisks them away and lives in another state. In fact, neither sister care for the aunts and avoid them like the plague until you guessed it Nicole Kidman’s character, Gilly, brings her dead boyfriend in the trunk of her car. It kind of plays out similar from there but I wasn’t exactly as enamored with it as I was the movie.

Usually, when it comes to the books turned movies, the books are better, but this go around I feel there is a sense of magic that the Practical Magic movie brings and I hope they can rekindle that magic in the sequel. Either way I will stance under the full moon in my garden with my moon water and listen to Stevie Nix. Which do you prefer, the book or the movie? Are you excited to see what they do?

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Good morning readers, it’s the day before the Summer Solstice, does anyone have any plans to celebrate? I may not be able to do anything extensive outside since the weather reports say it’s going to be stormy. But I have other matters to discuss and they aren’t for the day but rather, the night, let’s brew about it!

Here in Tampa, there is a lot of night life, concerts, festivals, etc, but what really caught my attention in two words, Vampire Ball. I never heard of this before, but apparently at a place called The Castle, they do off the wall dance club themes aka vampire ball. I’ve been to Ybor many times but I never seen The Castle before and from the looks of it I shouldn’t be able to miss it. I find it very interesting they’re holding it the day after the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year, as the light recedes the night becomes longer, very vampire-esk.

The design they have for the vampire ball looks similar to that of the Queen of the Damned concept, which is very cool. Evidently, they are !# for Halloween parties on TripAdvisor, I can only imagine if The Castle held another vampire ball on Halloween which so happens to be on a Friday this year, the turn out for that one alone! In movies and stories it creates that exciting allure, but IF it were real life would you go and become a late night snack or would stay home and bar the doors?

But what are your thoughts? Would you dress up for the vampire ball and get down until 3am? Would you dress Victorian or Pagan? All and all it sounds like a great event to get into.

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Good morning readers! Happy Tuesday, currently I’m basking in the aftermath of water blasting the plants drinking a hot cup of coffee, even though it has been SWELTERING, I still drink hot coffee, old habits die hard. I noticed I’ve been curious tapping into each pagan holiday as they pass this year and the one that’s coming this week on June 20th is Litha,, let’s brew about it!

I’ve heard of the Summer Solstice also, knowing it’s the longest day of the year, but what I didn’t know is that it has another name, Litha pronounced LEE-thuh. Litha, just like Osteros, Beltane, as well as the moon phases leading up to the holidays has given me a new understanding of the abundance, growth and light ( the giant aggravating molten ball in the sky) with each interval of plants I’ve planted. Each holiday seems to evolve towards those attributes and with the garden that’s growing larger with each payday I can’t help but think how people celebrated and invested their time during these holidays. How in our own way, it has evolved to fit the current times when celebrating, i.e. cooking out doors in parks or backyards, festivals with music and activities, the togetherness and sharing our skills and crafts with outside markets.

Best practices with the Summer solstice is being outside whether going for a walk or having a picnic or decorating your altar with flowers hanging colors of yellow or gold for the sun, green for abundance, and blue for the sky and water. Flowers like lavender and sunflowers are known for the summer solstice and I plan on planting more lavender (since my original died already hence the watering twice a day more vigilantly) and getting sunflowers because not only are they beautiful but they remind me of the sun( which is why its one of the flowers for the Summer Solstice).

What about you? Do you plan on getting together with friends? Do you think that’s why we have cook outs around this time of the year?

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Good morning readers! I hope June has been treating you well so far, full of light, joy and abundance, while I’m over kicking up the darker and supernatural side of things your way. I’m excited that there are more films on the way that will keep our blood racing! But Friday the 13th in June? Let’s brew about it!

Honestly, I’m not hunting for something new to watch or do any investigation on ghost this go around, but I am sitting down and picking out an oldie but goodie and staying in this Friday. Here in Florida and I’m sure we aren’t the only ones, if the 13th of the month lands on a Friday, tattoo shops will roll out a set of tattoos you can get done for 13 dollars. Which any chance of getting some new ink is always fun, but I couldn’t this go around, downside is that it’s the only one we have in 2025, so it was probably swamped at the tattoo parlors. The next Friday the 13th is February 2026, so make note of that also there will be 2 more dates in 2026 where the 13th falls on a Friday.

Anyways, what do you guys think of the Friday The 13th franchise? It hits me in the feels with traditional slasher/ hacker/ horror movie, so it may be old and keeps on going, but it’s one of my favorites. Plus the merch is really fun, too. But why did they choose Friday the 13th? Plain and simply Friday the 13th is superstitiously known in western culture as unlucky, first off. Secondly, Halloween was a huge success so the creators wanted to see if they could make another blockbuster with Friday The 13th.

I think their gamble worked out well, what about you? Are you more a Halloween fan or are you more Friday The 13th? But while we debate who’s scarier or which is a better franchise, I’m going to stay in tomorrow and watch the movie. I’ll have my sacred late night cup of coffee and try my hand at crocheting an axolotl. if I’m lucky the crochet needle will be the only thing stabbing me or will it be?

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Good morning readers! I’ve noticed a pattern where each time there’s a moon in the month this year I’ve been covering it. I’ve been curious as to why certain are called what and I’m beginning to understand that they aren’t always EXACTLY what they mean. Let’s brew about it!

So, fun fact, I thought the moon would appear “pink” in the sky, silly me, but June’s full moon is called a strawberry moon(In Europe it’s also, known as a “rose moon”) because this is when berries are harvested. If you’re seeing an influx of berries at the grocery store that what it means really, and being in Plant City strawberries are in an abundance. I was curious though if there was something spiritual behind the strawberry moon other than it’s a great time for pickin’ and there is! The Native Americans viewed this time as an abundance and love, there’s Beltane’s influence again. Time to celebrate fresh starts, relationships and personal growth all things in an abundance as well as healing.

I wondered why all of this growth messages keep popping up around this time? Is it because during winter we huddle together barring off the cold when everything is dormant. Is it why during spring we gear up by planting seeds not so much the plant kind (unless that’s what you want or need to), but more of a personal and spiritual spiritual seeds. In spring we are shedding what doesn’t work for us anymore because are gearing up to bring ourselves to our full zenith. Thus in summer we are in full force bringing those seeds to fruition and celebrating that hard work.

But what about you? What have you let go? What are things you planted that have come together to bring more to your life?

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Good morning readers! It’s getting hot out here and again, it’s only preheating,just can’t wait for July and August when it’ll be the hottest here in Florida. Anyways, since I’m on a trend with phobias and the supernatural, I thought I’d bring to the table a fairly new video game which is in the making. Let’s brew about it!

So, I’ve seen people on Twitch and Youtube videos freak the hell out while playing this game and it is hilarious. I never seen so many crazy sounding screams and just plain outer body experience on videos in my life! The game came out five years ago and a lot of people enjoy it. If you have a Steam account you can buy it from there, but it is a PC game which makes it Twitch user friendly. The premise of the game is that you’re a paranormal investigator going around classifying ghosts using various ghost hunting equipment while trying to survive.

Honestly, I always wanted to be a ghostbuster so I’m already in there like swimwear. My only problem for me is that I have the real shitty end of the stick when it comes to playing video games and I used to game a lot, I have a very bad case of motion sickness and it takes me FOREVER to play a game. Anyways, there isn’t anything much else to go off at the moment, not even a story line for the movie. Just like Until Dawn, I’m very interested in playing the game to get a feel for it and see if I won’t unlike myself while playing out of fear and jump scares. I might even venture to say maybe I’ll make a Twitch account just for ya’ll to watch me lose my marbles.

But what are your thoughts? Have you played the game? Do you think that Blumhouse will do it justice? Would you like to see me try to play this game? I’m sure it’ll do nothing but bring entertainment as my face melts off in panic.

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Good evening readers! Yup, I’m movie binging the last week and a half, but after Busch Gardens I needed to recharge from all the peopling. Also, its Final Destination the movie that starts giving us phobias about just every little thing, garbage disposal comes to mind. But what does the franchise have in-store for us now to be fearful of? Let’s brew about it!

The final Destination franchise started back in the beginning of the 2000’s wreaking havoc on our worst fears or ones we didn’t even think about, I can think of quite a few that I hadn’t, the friendly safe carwash still get’s me in a panic about ever owning a car with a sunroof. Anyways, Bloodlines has new things to be scared of. I also, love the content people are making out there poking fun at how outlandish it can get. But the movies do prey upon our worst fears, even if it is 1 millionth out of 1 chance that it could quite POSSIBLY happen, I myself am the reason or at least I feel that there is a Murphy’s law.

Anyways, back to the movie, it’s centralized around a college girl, her little, brother and the rest of her family. her recluse grandmother survived it, her own mother left to stay away from her children and it seems because her grandmother stopped a massacre from happening, death wants his due and will stop at nothing from getting it. The idea is that whomever who was suppose to die that lived and created families are all going to be affected unless the domino effect is stopped, by one person in that family dying.

It was a good watch but there are like a ton of them so the idea is the same just different characters and scenarios, but what are your thoughts? Did you watch the movie ? Was it on your radar or were you thinking, great another one?

As Always, stay safe, and Keep On Brewin!