I’m pretty happy with what the garden looks like at the moment. The back garden especially looks so well composed with what I have back there this year. I have no idea how it’s going to look come Monday. Hurricane Irene may not be very kind. All of the pots will be going into the […]
This ended up being a weird week, CSA-wise. They had to cancel the Portland pick up, between some forecasted severe thunderstorms with hail (I can agree that hanging out in metal framed tents in those conditions isn’t my cup of tea), and the impending arrival of Hurricane Irene requiring them to move up the planned
Borders is up to 50% off, and drew BF and me with its siren song last night. I decided to restrict myself to cookbooks, craft books, and fantasy/scifi that I’ve actually wanted to read, in that order. I lucked out with two cookbooks I’ve had one my want list for a while (saw one other
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Read for the 2011 YA Reading Challenge. This book is a companion to Merlin’s Harp, which portrays the Fae as a primal people living alongside the human inhabitants of King Arthur’s Kingdom. In Arthurian legend, Sir Percival is raised far from court by his mother, because his father and older brothers have all died in
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It was the work summer outing today, so we wandered up the coast to Wolfes Neck Farm, for a low key afternoon of relaxing and barbeque goodness. We were smack in the middle of the farm, with sheep, and oreo cows, and turkeys, and chickens – the kind of things that delight my urban little
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I don’t often read craft books cover to cover – they’re not usually designed to be read in that way. And to be honest, this one really isn’t either, but I’m fighting a summer cold, and I have a new sewing machine I haven’t dared try yet, and a whole pile of knitting I don’t
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So, what’s a girl to do a on a Monday night when the BF is working and she may or may not (turned out to be may) be coming down with summer cold? Make pickled jalapenos, of course! The recipe is from Ellie Topp and Margaret Howard’s The Complete Book of Small-Batch Preserving, and I
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Sunday’s adventure, for something close to home, but a little different, was the Mail Boat Run – three hours cruising Casco Bay. We packed a lunch, and enjoyed the scenery and the cool breeze. We actually managed to see a seal, who kindly did a full length dive for us, and plenty of sea birds.
Sometimes, it’s not always good to read a sequel immediately open reading the book that came before it. Having just read The Hidden Worlds, I had certain ideas of how the two main characters – Linnea and Iain – should be, and Linnea let me down a bit in this book. In the first book
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Today’s haul was: kale, summer squash, cucumbers, garlic, tomatoes, jalapenos, fennel and broccoli. As a consequence, it was BLT night. And the BLTs were really, really good.