Unfortunetly, I haven’t been able to get a Mabon ritual in….yet. In a small apartment with 2 kids, it’s very hard to get the time to do it. The night of Mabon, my youngest was up late and by the time he went to bed, I was too exhausted from the day. I was going to get set up last night for a ritual, but then my youngest again stayed up til after 1am and my oldest woke up around 2am and wouldn’t go back to sleep. Arrg! So I’m gonna try for tonight and hope it all works out. Just a few days late, but I’m still looking forward to celebrating. Merry Mabon!

It’s been a lot cooler here the past couple of days…Mabon having ushered in the fall. Though we are considerably cooler than usual, I’m not complaining.

News is in on how bad hurricane Rita was. And she wasn’t all that bad. She had reduced to a catagory 3 at landfall and didn’t cause major damage in Texas. Parts of New Orleans was back under water, as one of the weakened spots on the levee broke…but no new damage was caused.

BEAUMONT, Texas - Hurricane Rita slammed into Texas and Louisiana early Saturday, flooding coastal towns, sparking fires and knocking power out to more than 1 million customers, but largely sparing vulnerable Houston and much of the region’s vital oil refining industry.

New Orleans, already reeling from Hurricane Katrina, escaped the worst of the storm, but some of its poor neighborhoods flooded anew as engineers scrambled to repair weakened levees. Rescuers used boats and helicopters to reach hundreds of residents along the Lousiana coast, where the storm surge reached 15 feet.

Rita made landfall at 3:30 a.m. EDT as a Category 3 storm just east of Sabine Pass, on the Texas-Louisiana line, bringing top winds of 120 mph and warnings of up to 25 inches of rain, the National Hurricane Center said. Weakening steadily, it was downgraded to a tropical storm with top sustained winds of 65 mph as it moved north past Lufkin in the afternoon.