Mon bon dieu but the extraordinary thinness of the veil this year is distracting and draining.....  It's been about 7 years since the veil was THIS thin......

Just had a newly dead ghost of a very old man from across the street and up the hill (where there's a retirement home) come knock HARD on one of the windows while I had my back to it, watering one of my fig trees. I nearly jumped out of my skin, it was so sudden in the stillness! He pointed at my shirt (a black sweatshirt with a large white sugar skull on it) and I nodded and opened a gate to the light for him to easily follow. He grinned like a little boy and then moved on but I had to hold it open and wait while another half dozen spirits who'd lost their way but recognize the pull of that gateway connection came to me to be let in. (None of them the black lady with the bandaged/missing limbs  in the wheelchair who spooked me the other night with her panic about the serial killer based in southern MN being back hunting in Madison) I finally was able to close the gateway and just as I did it and turned back to my plants, an ambulance and firetruck with lights on came and turned at the light headed up into Oakwood. I just shook my head and muttered, "You're too late. he's gone already."  Firetruck has already left, ambulance hasn't yet.

Witching Hour Problems of a Medium When It's Only 3 Days Til Samhain........ Could write a book on it, lol.

I'm going to refill my watering can then back to my plants now. Hopefully no more interruptions for the night. And maybr the snow will hold off til Halloween itself -- I still have things I must do outside in the garden bed.....but in my heart of hearts,  I WANT the snow,  the whiteness and beauty and stillness and peace of it.  I'll come in tomorrow during the day and work on that though. Just in case. Also to make sure i get hours in. I have concerts on Weds night (Daniel Champagne -- an Australian guitarist) and Sat/Sun (2 nights of Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi concerts) and Tues night mum will likely want me to come over to watch figure skating now that the season has started up again.

3:07am addendum:
Ambulance just left while I was deadheading one of the geraniums before watering them. Lights off. Headed the opposite direction as the fire station (nearer than the hospitals, thus why a firetruck usually comes with the ambulance everywhere but the Isthmus.)