First, a quick note about vacation day 4. I spent the morning doing chores before meeting up with T so that we could take a stroll around the Old Port. Naturally, yesterday was the first day it rained this week, so we didn’t do quite as much strolling as we would have liked. However, we […]
For today’s entertainment, I stopped by the Tate House, which is in the Stroudwater neighborhood here in Portland. Oddly enough, it’s the only one of the open historic houses in Portland that I have not been dragged to sometime during my school career. The house was built in the 18th century for George Tate, who
Read for the YA Challenge 2008. I love Tamora Pierce. I discovered her when I was actually a member of the YA demographic, and have continued to enjoy her work ever since then. Her latest series goes back in time in Tortall, the setting for her original series (about the knight Alanna) to tell the
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So here’s a little something I whipped up for the birthday BBQ we had for the BF and my younger brother last night. It’s a watermelon, fresh mozzarella and basil salad with reduced balsamic vinegar as the dressing, and it’s GOOD. The mozzarella soaks up the flavor of the watermelon, and with the balsamic on
I will first quickly mention that vacation day 1 was taken up with the epic task of cleaning up my desk. This somehow turned into the epic task to clean up my crap in the bathroom cabinet, the pile of badness on my bureau, and the stuff on my desk. I’ve completed the bathroom and
Read for the TBR Reading Challenge. The Time Traveler’s Wife is the story of Henry DeTamble, a man suffering from chrono-displacement, which means that he travels back and forth along the length of his life, never knowing where/when he’ll end up, and his wife Clare, who plods along the linear path of time. This was
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As a celebration of my first day of vacation freedom, I headed over to Falmouth for a walk around Mackworth Island. I was almost foiled by the dang truck attending to the portapotties, which was taking up half the already tiny parking lot, but I managed to get in. It actually wasn’t that great a
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The good news is, the garden is coming along. The phlox, liatris and echinacea are all blooming, and we’ve gotten a decent amount of rain, so everything is looking pretty lush. The bad news is, we’ve gotten a decent amount of rain, so the phlox, liatris and echinacea have all come in sideways, due to
Slight change in socks I’m making for L. I switched over to the River Rapids sock pattern, since I’m working with a more or less sport weight yarn, and the Waving Lace pattern was not doing it with the yarn I’m using. It’s a pretty simple, cool looking pattern, and I’m definitely enjoying it. It’s
Read for the YA 2008 and Mythopoeic Reading Challenges. Inkheart is an absolutely charming story, definitely one of the better YA books I’ve recently read. Being an avid reader, I have on occasion wished that the story that I was reading could come alive, but this story is great cautionary tale of why that might
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