This weekend, we headed down to MA for Piemas, the festival of all things pie. (Well, it was Piemas observed, since Friday was the actual day.) And there was much pie, all along the spectrum from savory to sweet, and in pretty much every color of the rainbow. And it was good. I didn’t eat […]
Read for the Young Adult Reading Challenge The Goose Girl is an expanded version of the fairy tale where a princess is sent to marry the prince of a neighboring kingdom, but on her way there, the princess’s maid steals her identity and the princess is forced to work as a goose girl. Eventually, events
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One of my prime reading equivalents to comfort food is David Eddings’s books, especially the Belgariad and Mallorean series. The Belgariad were among the earliest books that I bought of my own volition, and I could not even tell you how many times I read them when I was a teenager, though I can’t tell
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I cast on the Baby Yoda Sweater earlier this week, to give me something smaller to work on, since my Jaywalkers are temporarily hibernating. The back of that is coming along pretty well, though I haven’t gotten quite as much done as I might have otherwise, due to some crack-tastic David Eddings marathon reading (review
Since it was snowing yesterday, and there wasn’t really much point in planning to do anything out of the house, I figured the least I could do was finish off the Lil Devil Baby Hat I’ve been making for a coworker’s forthcoming baby girl. It’s done in Firecracker Heather Wool of the Andes from Knitpicks.
So the rest of my tax refund treat came today (part one was the Interweave Sock book). Two skeins of Socks that Rock Raven Clan medium weight. I got Thraven and Valkerie. Valkerie because I think it would make good socks for my best friend – the perky goth with red streaked hair. I got
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My first Jaywalker sock is coming along nicely. I really like this pattern. It’s incredibly easy, though I admit that the short pattern repeat is actually making these a little slow going. I found that with the Monkey socks, I preferred to get a full pattern repeat finished at one time, if that was possible,
What a sweet book. It’s about Ruth, who seems to have a pretty perfect life, until her husband is laid off, her 16-year old daughter loses the ability to relate to her, and her father breaks both his arms and has to move in, when her mother (note that Ruth’s parents have been long divorced)
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I don’t know what it is, but I’m in a massive nesting mood today, which is being mostly thwarted by the fact that the worst off sections of the house are also the unheated sections of the house. But, the various parts of my craft accumulation are in portable containers, so I was at least
Have I mentioned I can be an obsessive completist? I read The Summer Country last year, and I thought it was mainly ok. So, on the way to Thanksgiving at my father’s, I stopped at the Big Chicken Barn, and managed to find The Winter Oak. Hey, it was used, and cheapish, and I do
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