So, what’s a girl to do with about four pound of tomatoes when her salad needs are being fulfilled by the cherry tomato plant in the garden? Salsa! This is the Fresh Vegetable Salsa from the Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving. It was meant to make five pints, but I got the above four, […]
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The planet Windhaven was colonized long ago by people from Earth. It has low gravity, and near perpetual storms, so some of the colonists used the remains of their ship to build wings, and their descendants became an important link between the islands in this world of vast oceans plagued by storms and deadly monsters.
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For a bit of a knitting interlude, I’ve cast on an Argyle Purl Scarf, by Jenna Nunziato, using Classic Elite Renaissance yarn. This scarf will go to the Red Scarf Project. I’m liking the pattern so far. It’s fairly simple, yet long enough to not get boring. I’ve been flying along – I’m pretty much
Pattern: Palimpsest by Anne HansenYarn: Knit Picks Alpaca Cloud in the Horizon colorwayNeedles: Size 4 circs Wow. In checking my notes, I cast this on on the last day of May. So it’s been slightly more than two months. I can’t believe I’ve managed that much project monogamy in that time. This
When I was young, and we still lived in Portland, about a block away from the local elementary school, which also contained the local branch library, my mother, sister and I would walk up there seemingly all the time. We would get picture books, and my mother would get more complicated chapter books that she
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Captain Laurence and Temeraire have finally made it back to England, only to find that all the dragons there have been infected with a very nasty cold that’s kept them sick enough that many of them can no longer fly. After accidentally breaching the quarantine, they find that Temeraire is immune to the cold, and
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The Lord Ruler is dead, and Elend Venture has become King, and he’s trying his best to be fair to all the people, noble and skaa. The Mistborn Vin is trying to figure out exactly how to live as both the King’s consort, and assassin. And, the rest of the old thieving crew is trying
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Vin is a street urchin who happens to have a bit of Luck – it’s what’s enabled her to survive in the streets of Luthadel. After a near disaster where she uses her luck on the wrong person, she meets Kellsier. He’s the one person to have escaped the Lord Ruler’s most terrible prison,
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I realize I’m asking a lot when I want my Pride and Prejudice sequels to measure up to Jane Austen’s original. I mean, she is Jane Austen, and she had a very singular way with words. Now, the ones that really bug me are the stories where the author goes for High Drama, in a
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In the last book in the series, our heroine had finally found her true identity – Ashalind na Pendran, who had run free from the lands of the Faeran when the gates that connected that fair land and the land of mortals were closed and bound by the orders of the Raven Prince, younger brother
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