I actually did a bit of harvesting today – two huge radishes, and salad greens. The greens weren’t filling either pot, and I could use them for other things, so they came out today. Part of yesterday’s epic drive was stopping at a couple of garden centers that are further out of town then […]
We went on a fairly epic drive around Southern and Western Maine yesterday, stopping at a few gardens and other spots we’d been wanting to see. The above is the Garden at the Pineland Center, which is just starting to come to life – they haven’t planted the vegetables yet, and the fruit trees are
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Read for the Once Upon a Time Reading Challenge. These short stories take nine traditional fairy tales and translate them into modern day Los Angeles. The language is poetic, and still very much of the traditional fairy tale. This means that even though most of the tales are not supernatural, the writing keeps that fairy
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Read for the Once Upon a Time Challenge. This is the story of a girl named Morgan, whose father was killed by a cruel king, who then took her mother away. Her mother was able to protect Morgan and her sister Morguase for a time, but after the death of the king, the girls were
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It’s been raining. A lot. Which is good on many levels, because I’d rather have it rain on my garden than me have to water it, but it also means I haven’t been doing much outside, other than watch to see if things finally are starting to grow. The woodland portion of my
So I went to download my knitting project pictures yesterday, and realized I had 95 pictures on my camera. I have a rather large project going on at work right now, and I’m apparently more distracted than I realized. The BF’s cousin and husband had come up to visit us last weekend, and I
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Read for the Once Upon a Time Reading Challenge. Tanaquil is the daughter of a sorceress, but seems to have no powers of her own. One day, she finds a cache of bones in the desert near her mother’s fortress, which she carefully reassembles, making a unicorn. And during a grand feast in the fortress,
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So way back on April 30th, I cast on the Soledad sweater by Annika Barranti, using Knit Picks Merino Style in the Storm colorway. I totally cheated and skipped the arms, and went straight for the body, with the fun cable. I’m currently suffering through the arms, but it’s sized for a 2-year-old, so it’s
Read for the Once Upon a Time Challenge. Aza has the most beautiful voice in the kingdom of Ayortha, which is a good thing, because the one thing Ayorthians prize more than beauty is singing ability, and Aza isn’t winning any contests in the beauty department. She’s even figured out a way to throw her
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Read for the Once Upon a Time Reading Challenge. Believe it or not, I bought this book in hardcover, when it first came out. (That would be 2008.) And unlike every other Harry Potter book, I didn’t read it immediately. It’s been sitting on a shelf mocking me, so in the grand spirit of the
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