It’s definitely been slow this year. This is the weekend I usually take an extra day off for to make sure I can visit as many woodland wildflower sites as possible, and today’s choices closer to home were not as far along as they could have been. This sanctuary is on the ocean in the […]
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Penric and Desdemona are called to a small town where a demon has been possessed by two hedge sorceresses in a row – a rare occurrence, since these kind of wild pairings can often go wrong. And this one has gone wrong. The demon doesn’t know how to vent its chaos, and has caused the
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Pattern: Sonsie Hat by Kate Davies Designs Yarn: Ewingston Shetland Wool and Wing & A Prayer Farm Thelma & Louise DK Needles: Size 5 circs and size 6 circs and DPNs I first knit this hat when the pattern came out last year, but in the meantime, KDD did a version in some hand dyed
We are in peak violet and wild strawberry cover season in the back yard – it makes me happy every time I look out the back windows. The rest of my dahlias came in on Thursday, so I had them all planted by Friday. And one of the early batch has sprouted! I am glad
Fern, who we first met in Bookshops & Bonedust, has uprooted her life to open a new bookshop next to the Legends and Lattes coffee shop run by her friend Viv. She’s long been unhappy at home, and thought for sure this would solve those feelings. But it doesn’t. While fortifying herself with some liquid
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I’m starting my dahlias inside this year. It’s just been so cold I don’t trust having them in the greenhouse yet. I’ll just have to be very careful getting them out of these pots this time, so I don’t repeat my mistakes from the last time I did this. These are six of the seven
This is a lovely little fairy tale. Celia’s father helped their country win the war against the neighboring Summerlings (they’re Fae), and gained great power doing so. Celia is the youngest, and the only girl. And when her beloved oldest brother renounces their father’s name, she curses him, not realizing that she has inherited the
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Pattern: Hibernal Solstice Hat by Katie Herrod Yarn: Ewingston Shetland Wool (hand dyed) and Wing & A Prayer Farm Thelma & Louise DK (undyed) Needles: Size 5 and 6 Circs and 6 DPNs This was a quick, fun knit. I really enjoyed working with both these yarns, and I still have enough left to make
Here’s the after photos since the landscaping crew came through and got rid of so many shrubs. I went through and cleaned up a lot of leaves this weekend, and we got the rain barrels out. We’re definitely going to be on sprout patrol in most of these spots – there are several invasives scattered
