Garden Notes
More harvest shots: 8/28, 8/30, 8/31 and 9/4. There’s a good portion of all nightshades, all the time, but I did also take out the first batch of collards to thin out the patch a bit before I left the rest get bigger.
Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel
So post-apocalyptic fiction is really hot right now. I have quite a bit of it in my to read pile. And I’m really not in the mood for it. Consequently, I’ve been rereading a bunch of books this year in a happier vein. Like fairy tales. This is the lead up to say that I
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The Scarlet Thread – D. S. Murphy
I get a couple different book newsletters for cheap or free ebook deals. I’ve learned to be really leery of the free ones. So I was really pleasantly surprised by this book. It’s definitely more in the YA realm, so has a fair amount of teenage angst, but not anymore than any typical book in
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Garden Notes
I’m getting things from the garden pretty much every other day now. (This should feature a third pictures from Friday that involved kale and tomatoes, but was just too dark to salvage.)
Knitting Notes
I’ve finished the colorwork section of my Snowflower sweater. It’s been slightly slow going- it’s been hot enough on and off I haven’t been working on it every night. I’ve also been procrastinating on the next task, which is to undo the provisional cast on at the bottom, so I can continue.