After a rather impressive rain storm on Tuesday (probably mostly impressive because we’ve been in a drought), the last of the leaves are finally off the trees. Which translated to this. That stacked into this. And along with two bags with from the driveway, translated to another thirteen bags, bringing the total for the season
This is the story of how the author’s family used food to get through hard times, framed with her experiences being laid off from her magazine job during the Great Recession in 2008/2009. It’s a really nice story of family, and sticking together through hard times. I really just picked it up because it was
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Pattern: Beyond Puerperium by Kelly van NiekerkYarn: Malabrigo Sock in the Stonechat colorwayNeedles: Size 2.5 and 4 circs and DPNs Here’s the cardigan for BF’s cousin’s impending little boy. We might be seeing them over Thanksgiving weekend, or if not, this is being shipped to her mother for her shower on 12/3. It’s a nice little
Spirit White wakes up out a coma after a car accident, to find her parents and sister are dead, and that her parents had made arrangements to send her to Oakhurst Academy in the event that they both died before she turns twenty one. Turns out, Oakhurst is a school for magicians, and that one
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This is the second of Barron’s Jane Austen mysteries, and we find Jane, her parents, and sister Cassandra off to take the sea air for the month of September in Lyme, which is where her novel Persuasion is partially set. On the way, a storm overturns their carriage, injuring Cassandra, and forcing them to take
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Well, that’s eight bags down. Did this this morning, before it started raining again. (And the bottom layer was definitely still wet.) But, at least I have the driveway and stairs temporarily cleared. This is what I have left. Note the amount still on the tree above…
The Elemental Masters series are all set in the turn of the last century, and meld fairy tales with elemental magic in that timeframe. Most of them have been set in England, but this book is set in Germany and Transylvania, and features Red Riding Hood, Werewolf Hunter. More seriously, Rosamund’s parents brought her to
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This is the Beyond Puerperium pattern, by Kelly van Niekerk. I’m using Malabrigo Sock Yarn in the Stonechat colorway. This is going to be for BF’s cousin K’s baby boy, due in January, though the shower is in December, so that’s the deadline (with a little buffer room to get it mailed over to NY).
I usually like a good food memoir from a famous chef or food writer – even as a kid, they seem to have always has the most fascinating meals, and you can usually get some vicarious foodie fun out of those stories. I’ve read some of Reichl’s other work (from the timeframes before and
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The original plan was to at least start on the leaves in the yard this weekend. They’re not terrible yet, but they’ve definitely started. However, it rained heavily both Friday and Saturday, and I am not a glutton for punishment. So they’ve got a reprieve for at least a week. In other news, I found
