I have to say, I’m really impressed by the blood sorrel this year. Last year, I started them right in the pot I intended to keep them in for the summer, and they didn’t really do anything – never got past the point of the first leaves. (Which are rounder and […]
This book is based on the societies and mythologies of Ancient Egypt and Nubia (at least what we’ve been able to figure out about them), as well the theories of common dreams of the early psychoanalysts like Freud and Jung. If that sounds heavy, it’s not – it’s a really different story than
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It’s been a while since I read the precursor to this book (A Dirty Job) – it’s on my 2007 reading list, but I read it before I actually started the blog that year. So I definitely had to get back into the world of this story, which took a few chapters. Charlie
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This is the Multidirectional Diagonal Scarf by Karen Baumer. I’m making it with some of Tess’ Designer Yarns Microfiber Ribbon, which is not something I’ve ever worked with before, but the colorway was so cool, I had to buy some. This particular colorway was something she’d done up for a festival, and was the
Pattern: Citadel by Beata Jezek Yarn: Knit Picks Capra in the Pesto colorway and Reywa Fibers Embrace in the Festival colorway Needles: Size 5 circs and DPNs This hat promises to be warm – it’s a cashmere and yak hybrid, and the double layering seems promising. Here’s hoping I’ve finally found an airtight hat
The about the author section in this book owns to the fact that the author wrote it as an answer to what if there were fantastical elements underlying the social conventions that restrained woman in Jane Austen or Charlotte Bronte books. Ivy Lockwell is the oldest of three sisters. Their father was once
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We were up here in order to show a friend from Arizona some good, quintessential Maine coast. And we happened upon one of the best spring tides I’ve ever seen in Casco Bay. There’s a little island just off the park coast with an osprey nest – you could have walked
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I didn’t think I’d get this book. I won it through EarlyReviewers back in November. I was totally psyched – I have very warm memories of my mother reading the Little House books to my sister and me when we were little. You generally don’t get those books for at least a month
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Yarrow Achillea millefolium Other names: Common Yarrow, plumajillo, gordaldo, nosebleed plant, old man’s pepper, devil’s nettle, sanguinary, milfoil, soldier’s woundwort, thousand-leaf, thousand-seal, arrowroot, bad man’s plaything, bloodwort, carpenter’s weed, death flower, eerie, field hops, gearwe, hundred leaved grass, knight’s milefoil, knyghten, milefolium, millefoil, noble yarrow, old man’s mustard, seven year’s love, snake’s grass, soldier, stanchweed,
