Knitting Notes
In other knitting news, I’ve resurrected the Ailbhe mittens I started last February (I’ve never let a project sit this long). These are also holiday knitting, and I’m about half way through the second one now.
Knitting Notes
Pattern: Wee Ambrosia by Gudrun JohnstonYarn: Knitpicks Wool of the Andes Superwash in the Columbine Heather colorwayNeedles: Size 10 circs and DPNs and size 9 circs And my first Christmas knitting is done. This is for my niece, and I have enough yarn left over I’m going to add a hat. I have
Garden Notes
This is what I’m currently dealing with in the yard, and all the leaves aren’t even down yet. I had a random day off today, so spent the time to get most of the rest of the garden to bed (the herb pots are still ok for the moment), and to at least get the
Jeremy Poldark – Winston Graham
You know – I think the best lesson to take away from this series is that families are complicated, and life is complicated, and you’ll have to work at both all the time, regardless of when you lived. In the last book, Ross was to be brought to trial for supposedly ring-leading the pirating of
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Boston, Massachusetts
We walked a good chunk of the Freedom Trail on Saturday for the first time in decades (between the BF, his brother C, and myself). Finished up with the the Sky Walk Observatory (the 50th floor) at the Prudential Center, which I had never done before. What a great view. I love Boston. It’s so
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Twilight’s Dawn – Anne Bishop
This book of novella-sized stories rounds out the lives of the main characters of the Black Jewels books. I’ll admit – I was a little surprised and pleased to see these. One thing about these books is that most of the characters are from some long lived races (the father figure is over 50,000 years
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RIP IX Reading Challenge 9/1/14 to 10/31/14
With it being the second to last day of the month, and while I am a fast reader, I am not that fast, I think it’s safe to say I’m done with the RIP Challenge for the year. The challenge was to read at least four books in the challenge categories. I managed six:
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Shade’s Children – Garth Nix
Read for the RIP Reading Challenge. In the future, humanity has been enslaved by a race of Overlords that use people as the raw materials to construct their armies. Children are harvested on their 14th birthday. Occasionally, children do escape, and some find their way to Shade’s hideaway. Shade was once a man, but is
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Further Adventures in Domesticity
So what do you do when you have a batch of fairly tasteless apples, and you’d rather move on to the much better batch you bought at the farmer’s market? Make applesauce! This is using the recipe from Canning for a New Generation. Sadly, it did fall prey to my occasional issue where I only
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End of an Era
Today, the above, became the below. The yellow one was still blooming, but it’s to the point now where barely any of them were ripening, and the weather’s not getting any warmer. We have plans for next weekend, so I wouldn’t have been able to take care of it then, not to mention next weekend