[OnyxCougar]

**sigh**

I didn't celebrate Mabon this year. I left everything with my fiance in Vegas except my favorite Tarot deck. He came out to NC 3 weeks later, and put our stuff (including my big box of Wiccan stuff) in the shed in back of his apartment. His roommate was gonna mail it to us as we sent money.

Well, we found out yesterday that said roommate up and left Vegas, and all of our stuff in the shed. Skipped rent, too. He says that the landlord, he supposes, went through the shed and if our stuff wasn't taken or sold, it was thrown away.

So I have to start all over. My dirt from Stonehenge (that I collected myself on the full moon). My marble pyramids that I hand sanded only on the new moon. About $150 of candles. My altar cloth. My athame. My shells collected from the Mediterranean, seasalt, $20 worth of insence. The runes I cut and carved and painted and lacquered. All gone.

Steve's bass guitar, signed by Yngwie Malmstein. (sp). My guitar. Video tapes of my kids when they weren't born yet and me in my band in '91. All gone.

Yes, I can get the material things back. But I can't get the investment of time and energy back. If we would have known he was going to leave we could have sent him money for a storage unit. I could have called my father and had him drive the 2 hours to pick it up.

Anyway. No. I didn't celebrate Mabon this year.

On the GTG thread a while back, there was mention of a Cellar GTG for Samhain. Anyone got an update/plan on that?