2014 Events Sheboygan CWI

The Scotland travelers are back home as I told you last Friday.  We now have to look forward to and plan our next get togethers, at least through the end of 2014.   It is hard to believe that there are less than three months left of the year.

Our next event will be our annual, Samhain (Halloween-Harvest) Pot luck dinner.  We will be meeting on Sunday afternoon at 4PM on October 26th.   The question is where.   Our usual meeting place is not available this year so I could REALLY use help to locate and book a place.    We need a kitchen area (a place to plug in lots of electric food appliances), a counter to lay out the buffet and tables and chairs.  All are welcome.   We bring friends and significant others.   We also invite our deceased relatives and friends to join us and set a table for them too.    Some of us have place mats with their names on them.   I will bring paper place mats and writing implements if someone wishes to create one there.  Bring stories.

FYI - SAMHAIN

Samhain was one of the four main festivals of the Gaelic calendar, marking the end of the harvest and beginning of winter. Traditionally, Samhain was a time to take stock of the herds and food supplies. Cattle were brought down to the winter pastures after six months in the higher summer pastures. (From Wikipedia)

Samhain is also celebrated to this day as Halloween.   It is the time of the year when the veil between the spirit world and the world we live in is considered the thinnest.   A time to begin the Dark Season, a time to reflect, regroup and prepare for the new season that comes in the spring when life is reborn.

The last event scheduled for 2014 will be our annual Christmas Tea.   The date is December 6, Saturday Afternoon.  Details will follow.

Please help with a place for Samhain. 

We will be doing a Scotland presentation early in the year and perhaps also at the Gathering.    I will be going to Cornwall next year.

Dia Dhuit