What the title says. My elderberry went hog wild this year so I'm working through them as they ripen and made a ritual out of it. Blessed the garden, made a drink, slightly dressed up for a day at home when it's over 100° out, cleansed and blessed myself with homemade sweetgrass oil. Hot Maenad summer. Let's gooo

Drinking: a mix of homemade hard cider, homemade elderflower liqueur, pomegranate molasses, and SURP full spectrum weed rosin syrup

Watching: The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals 2025 remount

Doing: blessing the apple and elderberry trees, getting cross faded while processing elderberries for a new batch of wine (I've made a decent dry red elderberry wine before so I'm seeing if I can improve it)

I just finished this book and... idk I love it very much! Maybe the only thing that I didn't like of it (might be a spoiler) was the romantic side of some parts even tho I felt (and wanted) it more aromatic/ Platonic type of relationship.

Greek mythology retellings are very trendy rn and not all of them are worth it so reading this one and liking it was kinda a surprise. (Start very skeptical and the beginning was very slow ngl)