Eustis Estate Museum – Milton, MA
The first snowfall of the season, lovely Christmas decorations, and a whole lot of gorgeous woodwork.
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Jack of Kinrowan – Charles de Lint
Jacky Rowan’s just been dumped by her boyfriend, and goes out for an uncharacteristically wild night to compensate. On this night, she manages to stumble into the path of the Wild Hunt, leading her into the doorway to Faerie, where she’s hailed as the Jack of Kinrowan – a hero who can bring down the
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In Calabria – Peter S. Beagle
Claudio Bianchi lives alone on his family’s farm in Calabria. At the beginning of the story, he can at best be described as curmudgeonly, until the day that a unicorn appears on the farm. He quickly realizes that she has chosen his farm to have her baby, and while waiting for this event, things begin
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The Serpent’s Shadow – Mercedes Lackey
Continuing with this year’s comfort reading theme, I’m back at the beginning of the Elemental Masters series. This book is based on Snow White, and follows Maya Witherspoon. Her father was an English doctor in India, and her mother was a sorceress who gave up everything to marry her father. When both her parents die
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Gulp – Mary Roach
This book is about the entire alimentary canal – mouth to end. If you’re the kind of person that’s squeamish about any part of this, this book is not for you. However, if you want a whole lot of interesting things about the process of eating and digestion thrown at you, this is the book
Garden Notes
Well, with the exception of a few pots of herbs at home, both gardens are put to bed. It was a really good year, and I’m already really stoked for next year. I’m so looking forward to expanding what I can do in the community garden plot, now that I have a better handle
Chew Volume 2: International Flavor – John Layman and Rob Guillory
So, we’ve got a police procedural mixed with Robocop Lite, possible alien fruit, and a vampire that’s made himself look like a vampire to scare people, but is actually pretty scary because he absorbs other people’s abilities by eating them. This series is so far so completely random, I love it.
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Knitting Notes
I may be cutting this a bit close, but I’m making an American Girl doll sized cardigan for elder niece this year for Christmas. The pattern is Comfy Cables by Liese Brouwer, and the yarn is Premier Yarns Serenity Sock. I had to cast this on three times. For some reason, the set up was
Garden Notes
This year’s tally from the one tree yard: fifteen bags. We definitely benefited from the October storm here. I’ll probably have another half a bag’s clean up to do a little later. I had these bagged up and half of them over to my mother’s house on Saturday morning. The rest were over
A Study in Sable – Mercedes Lackey
Continuing with the Elemental Masters series, we’re now back in England (after having been in Germany for the last couple volumes), and are looping Sherlock Holmes into this magical version of our world. Or really, the Watsons, who are Elemental Mages, and take the cases that Holmes won’t take, since he’s skeptical that magic actually
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