The child sized Skull hat is done. I’m not officially closing out the project yet – this is a bit big for M this year. So I have to have a little think about that. So, in the meantime, I’m moving on to something else. This is my 40th birthday sweater – […]
Here’s a Brother Cadfael book where the murder doesn’t occur in Shrewsbury (which is probably a good thing – all those murders in one town can’t be that good for civic moral). At the same time as the festival of the Translation of Saint Winifred to the monastery, while pilgrims are arriving, the Abbot is
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Caitrin has run away from a terrible situation at home, and finds herself at Whistling Tor. The townspeople try and convince her to leave, talking about a curse on the chieftain’s house on the Tor, but he has sent his man to town to advertise for a scribe, and Caitrin sees the opportunity to practice
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This entry is more properly titled “The Road into the Great Bay NWR”, since while we were probably on refuge grounds, these flowers were all found along the roadside, aka the classic example of “Disturbed Habitat” that most of these plants adore.
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The flowers are really starting to come along – the calendula and borage in the community plot look great, and in the side garden, the zinnias are really starting to produce. The lilies are also having a good year. I had one come up randomly next to the Russian sage – I like how
We had a bit of a treat yesterday – a work outing for the afternoon. We did the Diamond Pass Run on Casco Bay Lines, which runs from Portland in a loop to Little Diamond, Great Diamond and Long Islands. It was a great time – we were outrunning the rain that nailed
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Having finally finished the five book Pendragon Cycle, I figured I might as well finish things off for good, and read this addendum to the series. James Arthur Stuart was an officer in the British Army, and a generally decent, if nondescript guy. While trying to save his home after his parents die, he finds
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Cross ‘Rapunzel’ with the Wild West, and you get this tale, from Lackey’s Elemental Masters series, which are all set in the turn of the last century, and feature magic of the Elements – Air, Water, Fire and Earth. Giselle was adopted by an Earth Master, taken from a family that could barely afford to
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