Yesterday was Maine Lighthouse Day, where a number of lighthouses in Maine that aren’t normally open to the public are open for free. It’s a day we normally manage to be out of town for, but this year, we made sure we were actually around to take advantage of it. We made three stops, all […]
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In further Christmas knitting news, I\’ve cast on a scarf for my mother. This is the Pearl-Barred Scallop scarf by Cheri Borden, using my Sanguine Gryphon Bugga in the Cowkiller colorway. This is about the third pattern I’ve tried with this yarn, and they’ve gone more simple with each try. This is a really simple
The Farmer’s Market looked gorgeous yesterday. There’s definitely been a seasonal shift – with many root vegetables, and apples everywhere. I bought some local plums that I’m planning on making jam with, and we got ingredients for gazpacho, as well as some sweet corn, for what is possibly our last veggie grill blow out of
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This week’s haul was: carrots, tomatoes, salad mix, garlic, kale, peppers, and potatoes. In what is close to the last installment of all tomatoes, all the time cooking, I made a fabulous uncooked tomato sauce with basil (from the garden) and fresh mozzarella over pasta. It was so pretty with the combination of colors from
For something a little different this year, my mother and I are splitting a share from the Out on Limb apple CSA, from Super Chilly Farm in Palermo. There will be five drops through November, with a variety of rare cooking and dessert apples. This week had six varieties: Wealthy, Charette, Whitney, September Ruby, St.
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Read for the RIP VI Reading Challenge. In most of the Sookie Stackhouse books (this being number eight), there’s a pretty big event that is the focus of the book. This book is different – a series of small events – housekeeping even, in prep for a larger event that’s coming in the next book
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In pretty exciting news, the Lilah shawl is actually done! I finished it two nights ago, and used up all but a tiny bit of the yarn (I actually had to skip one of the three pattern repeats in the border to do so, but I don’t think you’d ever be able to tell I
This week’s haul was: lettuce, cucumbers, garlic, a melon, tomatoes, and peppers. The cooking highlight of last week was the Roasted Eggplant with Green Goddess Sauce from Melissa Clark’s In the Kitchen with a Good Appetite, which I already ohhed and aahed about at length in the book review early this week.
Read for the 2011 YA and RIP VI Reading Challenges. Sally Lockhart has recently lost her father, and is now living with an aunt she barely knows and having to find her own way in Victorian London. She had a rather unconventional childhood, her father always believed in teaching her to take care of herself
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I still had a bit of a quilting itch yesterday, though knew I wouldn’t have the time to set up the machine. So instead, I brought out my long dormant landscape quilt I’ve been working on. I’ve most recently been stuck on how to add in the forest in the middle. I had a bit