Full Corn Moon or Harvest Moon

Get out your fangs and claws, it's a full moon tonight! This month's full moon is the Full Corn Moon or Harvest  Moon.

I've lost the image credit for this. If anyone knows who it is, I will gladly give credit.

• Full Corn Moon or Full Harvest Moon – September This full moon’s name is attributed to Native Americans because it marked when corn was supposed to be harvested. Most often, the September full moon is actually the Harvest Moon, which is the full Moon that occurs closest to the autumn equinox. In two years out of three, the Harvest Moon comes in September, but in some years it occurs in October. At the peak of harvest, farmers can work late into the night by the light of this Moon. Usually the full Moon rises an average of 50 minutes later each night, but for the few nights around the Harvest Moon, the Moon seems to rise at nearly the same time each night: just 25 to 30 minutes later across the U.S., and only 10 to 20 minutes later for much of Canada and Europe. Corn, pumpkins, squash, beans, and wild rice the chief Indian staples are now ready for gathering.- Farmer's Almanac 

We will celebrate with a full moon invocation and an autumn feast complete with Mexican Cornbread. 

Mexican Cornbread

Ingredients

2 (8.5 oz) boxes Jiffy Cornbread mix

1 C milk

1 C shredded cheese

2 tsp. sugar

2 eggs

1 (14 oz.) can cream style corn

4 oz. chopped green chile

Directions

1.       Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Lightly grease a 9x13 pan.

2.       In a large bowl combine all ingredients until just combined. Spread batter into prepared pan.

3.       Bake for 30 minutes, or until golden brown and cornbread pulls away from sides of pan.

4.       Serve with butter or honey or both! 

Hoar's Mabon Party

The hoars and I celebrated the Autumnal Equinox by heading to a club for a few hours. We came home after the DJ completely sucked ass. Laini got the new Shakira dances so we danced into the morning as we hoars do at the Hoar House! Wearing new creations by Kumani. She DJ'd for us too! <3

Video Credit: Kumani Wylder

Thirsty Thursday: Refill Stations

.:[ BLOODLINES REFILL STATIONS ]:.

(Refill stations can be found at Liquid Frontier and Liquid East)

To use the refill stations, you must first purchase blood, lumens or cider from the vendors nearby. Resources purchased this way will go to your "Reserve" on you proflie in your cellar, and will be available to refill into your containers.

Once you have some Vital Blood, Lumens, or Cider in your Reserve Account, you can use it to refill your containers at any Bloodlines refill station.


To use the refill station, you need to be wearing a Refill Key. Refill Keys are free, and you can get one by clicking the Refill Key vendor near the refill station. If you use the station without wearing a Refill Key, the refill will still work, but your tank won't update with the new amount.

 If this happens, you can get your tank to update by re-rezzing it, or by drinking from it or filling it. Once you are wearing your Refill Key, and you have purchased the metric that you wish you refill, follow these instructions to use the refill stations:

Click on the refill station, it will give you a menu asking you to confirm that you want to use the refill station. Click "Proceed" to confirm.
Make sure the container you want to refill is rezzed within chat range of the refill station. Click on your container, and then click "Select" on your container menu.

(lumen refill station with bone prism) 

If your container checks out, you will get a menu that will give you options for refilling your container. Select the amount you want to fill, or 'Max' to fill the container to the max (or up to the amount that you have available). Or, you can select 'Other', and follow the instructions to select a different amount.
Once you select an amount, your container will automatically be refilled from your reserve account.

(blood refill with tank)

(apple cider  refill with barrel)

Here are a couple things to note:

Metrics in your Reserve Account don't contribute to your wealth.
Reserve Accounts can only be accessed through refill stations. You can't move metrics into your Reserve Account from existing containers, you can't drink directly from your
Reserve Account, and you can't move metrics between Reserve Accounts on different avatars.
Having metrics in your reserve account won't prevent you from being destroyed by the Curse, just like having metrics in containers doesn't protect you.
Essentially, Reserve Accounts don't affect or interact with anything else in the game, they just give you a convenient way to refill empty containers.


(From the original notecard by Lyle Maeterlink, Mars Bracken, and Noire Luminos )

What a weekend!

What a wonderful, relaxing weekend it was.  I spent way too much time online.  Spent time on various occasions with Daisy, Cat and Tracy playing Greedy.  Hanging out with Suze, DM and Keith. Party @ Raven's with Tracy, Star, and Wooj.  Taking pics with Rick @ Daisy's. Then most of Saturday night with Kumani and Laini. After everyone logged, I laid down at the ocean next to Kumani's house and exhaled. So grateful to have such wonderful, fun friends!