Read for the Armchair Traveler’s Reading Challenge. Only Bill Bryson can make driving through an endless wasteland into an amusing story. I very much enjoyed this book. My prior knowledge of Australia has been pretty much limited to what I’ve seen on Crocodile Hunter episodes and a Lonely Planet podcast on Perth, so it was […]
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Garden geek alert again. I visited my mother’s (and her garden) today, and she actually had a parasitized horn worm caterpillar. You know you’re a total geek when this is the most fascinating event of the evening.
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Went to a birthday party in MA this weekend. Because I am such a garden geek, the highlight of my weekend photographs are pictures of the hummingbird moth in my friend’s garden. So cool!! What would have otherwise been the chief highlight of the trip down was the garden at the Stonewall Kitchen factory store
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Just got back from seeing Stardust. Loved it. I did read the book, but it was long enough ago that all but the main plot points have long since been buried in my memory, so I was able to watch it without remembering what was going on, which was great. Robert De Niro was fabulous
My sister just got back from vacation in Hawaii. And she brought me back shells. I can now take out my guidebook, catalog them to my hearts content, and then, there’s actually enough here I may be able to pull off a shadowbox. I really am excessively easy to please 🙂
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I have just returned from heaven. We had a work outing today in Standish. As we were hanging out after gorging ourselves, one of my coworkers mentioned that we’d passed a great small nursery she’d been to last year that has a really good perennial sale in late summer, and she noticed the sale was
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I need a new chair for sewing. I set my machine up at the dining room table. That in and of itself isn’t bad. The table’s actually a fine height for sewing. It’s the dang dining room chairs that are killing me (and we’ve even gotten new chairs that are far more comfortable than the
This is technically a reread, as I read it some time ago when I found it at the library, when I was devouring anything Robin McKinley. My mother found it used, and it passed it along to me when she was done with it, as she knows I’m collecting McKinley’s book when I find them
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Well, the heat’s finally broken, so I went out and did some cleanup in the garden this morning. It occurs to me I haven’t really posted anything about my garden yet, so here goes. I rent, but my landlord is perfectly happy to let me putter about in the beds that were left here when
I picked this book up because I’d seen an interview with the author on the Daily Show. It was an interesting interview, and he seemed very articulate and knowledgeable, and since this seems to be my year to learn about Islam, I short listed this to the top of my Amazon wishlist. The book is
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