My Mother’s Garden
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Earth Abides – George R. Stewart
Read for the It’s the End of the World Reading Challenge. Isherwood Williams is in the mountains when the plague that wipes out most of humanity happens. He travels back to his home in San Francisco through an oddly silent land, having to piece together what happened from what little information was left before most
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Knitting Notes
Eunice sock #1 is done! In hindsight, I could have probably managed another full pattern repeat on the foot, but that is the part that’s covered by shoes, so it’s probably no big deal that there’s a little extra boring part of the pattern down there. I still love the Malabrigo, and the pattern is
Garden Notes
I hit upon a brilliant idea earlier in the week. Rather than fight the crowds at Broadway Gardens over the holiday weekend, I went after work today. Full Memorial Day weekend selection before the hoards have a chance to descend. It was a little busy, but I easily got parking, and had no trouble getting
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies – Seth Grahame-Smith
Jane Austen is either spinning in her grave, or laughing her ass off from heaven over this book. I’m sure many purists are full of righteous indignation over it, and I wouldn’t recommend it to my co-worker that reads Jane Austen, because I know the zombies aren’t her cup of tea, but this is a
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Knitting Notes
I downloaded clue #3 for Kiila on Saturday. It was a cloudy about to rain kind of day, so I sat right down, and finished it off that morning. I’d been pretty nervous about the short row heel, so I actually life-lined the end of clue #2 (you can see the red thread), but it
Garden Notes
I had a night to myself last night, and spent nearly the whole time working on the garden (and my entire backside is protesting this morning). Early spring has gone by, and everything is well into late spring form. My potted perennials suffered a bit this winter. Neither of my Heuchera came back, so I
Booking Through Thursday
Book Gluttony! Are your eyes bigger than your book belly? Do you have a habit of buying up books far quicker than you could possibly read them? Have you had to curb your book buying habits until you can catch up with yourself? Or are you a controlled buyer, only purchasing books when you have
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The City of Ember – Jeanne DuPrau
Read for the It’s the End of the World II and 2009 YA Reading Challenges. In the city of Ember, the only sources of light are gigantic floodlights over the city, which go out at night, leaving the city in complete darkness. Outside of the city is the Unknown Region, where no one ever goes,
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