The weather is just wacky. It’s so freaking warm. I mean look at the Swiss chard! Because it can survive a frost or two, it’s doing beautifully. So it’s made putting the garden to bed this year problematic. Some things are done – I pulled out the clematis yesterday, so that […]
I’ve had this book in the Tote of Shame ™ for a while – I think because I’d never read any of the author’s work before, so I really wasn’t sure to expect. So I’ve been passing it by because I never know if it’s going to fit whatever reading mood I’m in
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So, being at loose knit ends again, I’ve cast on some socks. Which will probably be going to my friend K. This is Cookie A’s Elm Socks, in Knit Picks Stroll in the Pine colorway. (I think I’ve actually had it so long it’s technically Essential Yarn in the Pine
Pattern: Multidirectional Diagonal Scarf by Karen BaumerYarn: Tess’s Designer Yarns Microfiber RibbonNeedles: Size 6 circs This is one of the few times I’ve seen a knit sample at a yarn store and said, you know, I really want to make exactly that. I’ve never knit before with this ribbon, but this particular skein
I think what I most liked about this book was that Gaiman outlined where each of the stories or poems came from in the introduction. That’s not something authors do often, though he mentioned he thought this was his least thematic short story collection, so perhaps that was his way of pulling things
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We took a bit of a drive yesterday with the BF’s parents. Had lunch at our favorite restaurant (Krista’s in Cornish), stopped at the quilt shop next door (mostly for the MIL, but I bought a few fat quarters), stopped at our favorite apple orchard (Apple Acres farm in Hiram) for honey crisps and
I am so conflicted about this book. To the point of where if I had not already read the two books that came before it, I don’t think I would have finished it. And I’m really not sure if I’m going to pass it on to the two people that I had loaned
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So I pulled the tomatoes out last Saturday. One of them was mostly dead, and there was a frost coming. I’d like to take note of the lush shiso and nasturtiums above. They’re gone now. That frost was definitely a game changer.
