So my sister got married on the third. Which meant we got to go out to CA for the event. (I was a bridesmaid.) The family part of the trip is covered on Facebook, and elsewhere, because this is not a family oriented sort of blog, but the BF and I did […]
Here’s another “dashing Georgian gentleman has a young girl trying to escape her not so nice relatives pretty much fall in his lap (figuratively, not literally), where he must then aid her in her adventures” Georgette Heyer story. In this case, it’s Sir Richard Wyndham, second in society only to Beau Brummell, who has just
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Miranda is a very typical teenager, in a very typical town in Pennsylvania, totally annoyed by the extra assignments at school that week, due to a projected asteroid hit on the moon. Everyone is absolutely moon crazy, and the whole world makes the asteroid viewing a regular party. Except, the asteroid is
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This is the final book of the Inheritance Trilogy, and I wasn’t sure what to expect of it, going in. It seemed like the three main gods – Nahadoth, Itempas and Enefa/Yeine – were well taken care of. And actually, this is the story of Sieh, oldest of the godlings, the children of the original
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Common Soapwort Saponaria officinalis Other names: Bouncing Bet, crow soap, wild sweet William, soapweed, Latherwort, Lady’s-wash Bowl, Old Maid’s-pink, Fuller’s Herb, London Pride Family: Caryophyllaceae (Carnation Family) Range: Across the US. Native: Introduced Native Habitat: Saponaria officinalis’s native range extends throughout Europe, and in Asia till western Siberia. It grows in cool places at low
So last week, we had my coworkers from Chattanooga up for a big training session. Several of them had not been to Maine before, so we brought them out one evening to Fort Williams to see the Head Light. Totally by accident, I ended up getting some nice contrasting pictures of the different
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The back yard is clear!! Well, not really. I had to take the empty pots out of the way, so it was easier to put the growing ones up against the fence where they’re out of the way until they die back and I can put them away. The side garden is
I finished a bag for the shawl I made my sister yesterday – so that’s all set to give her before the wedding this weekend. (Under the wire – phew!) It’s certainly very pink. But when you confess a secret favorite color, I am obligated to go for it…
If you look at a map, Grafton Notch State Park is right next to the very top of New Hampshire, which is the skinniest part of that state. Since our friend and BF met when she was an exchange student at his high school in Vermont, and she hadn’t managed a trip to
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