I have two small square frames that I used to have sun and moon cross stitches I’d done a while ago in. I decided I’d really like to refresh those, so I found two patterns I liked in the Punochka shop in Etsy. This is the Halloween Moth. I’m doing the other pattern on the […]
So it’s October, and I still have dahlias. At this point, I’m just enjoying them while they last. They’re the only thing I’m still watering. I’m starting to wonder if they’ll last until November…
Athene and Apollo decide to do an experiment – create Plato’s Just City. They bring men and women from all over time that believe in Plato’s principles, and have them set up the city. It’s populated by children purchased from slave ships, and Athene brings in some robots from the far future to do some
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The first Nain sock is done. I’m enjoying this so much more than my recent failed sock attempts. The picture is not adequately capturing how pretty this yarn is. The colorway is Aurora Borealis, and it’s the prettiest mix of blue, purple and green. It’s got enough silk to have a lovely sheen to it
I managed a two hour walk at a not very large preserve. At no point would I have been able to consider that walk to have any redeeming aerobic qualities. I did however, work in squats like a champ. That was a quick 851 pictures. 2025 Note: This was the best year for mushrooms in
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This is a lovely book of botanical illustration with interesting little anecdotes about the various flowers portrayed. It covers the whole of the US (and a good chunk of Canada), so it’s necessarily a little broad, but does have an interesting variety of flowers included. It’s a lovely little survey of what’s around in our
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I have two fairly small square frames that I had old sun and moon cross stitch patterns I’d done ages ago in, and I wanted to refresh those. I found two patterns I liked in Punochka’s Etsy shop (Russians really do have fantastic embroidery patterns). This is the Halloween moth – started it on Monday.
I pulled this out of the garden on Monday. It’s the large tomato plant, the remaining pumpkin, two delicata squash, and most of the gem marigolds, which I didn’t set out to pull, but accidently came up with little effort. I’m mostly down to the herbs and flowers now – we’re on death watch for
