This is one of my favorite facts where science and magic intersect! Carbon monoxide poisoning can cause all sorts of interesting symptoms, some of which mimic feeling like your house is haunted! Also check out vibroacoustics for an explanation of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Magpie's World
Do you recognize that book Magpie is reading? It’s Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes! Have you read it? I’ve been slowly making my way through it for several years now on and off. It’s so[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You know what they say! The bigger the hag… the bigger the bag XD Shout to all our tiny bag and no bag sisters, though! I admire a woman so confident she can venture out into the world without the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is actually the first Pickles and Pitch comic I ever made! At the time I swore I would do fewer plant-based comics… a promise you will have already seen I was simply unable to keep. Plant jokes forever!!!
I know lots of you are in the middle of canning season! Let this be your gentle reminder to always adequately and accurately label your jars! You don’t want to go to open a jelly and find out it was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You’ve probably heard at least part of this quote from Shakespeare’s Macbeth: “Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting, Lizard’s leg, and owlet’s wing,— For a charm of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’s been a lot of corvid content floating around lately, and like so many others I share the dream of befriending my local crows and enjoying a special relationship where my arrival is foretold by ominous cawing, my familiars gift[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“…And ABOVE ALL be sure to cover your crystal ball with a cloth when you’re done using it!” “So the spirits can’t peer through the veil into my life?” “No, so light refraction doesn’t burn your house down.”
I actually have this bucket and compost bin! They’re both pretty cheap on Amazon. It’s been super easy as far as starter sets go. I even gave a second bucket to a friend so she could bring me her scraps,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…