I don’t know what it was about this book, but I had the worst time getting into it. It’s taken me months to get through it. I did get through it, because it’s actually a really interesting story, but I would put it aside for weeks at a time before I could get into it […]
The Lies of Locke Lamora – Scott Lynch Read More »
Spur of the moment on Thursday, since we both had Friday off, and the heat is coming in, we decided it would be fun to drive up the Mount Washington Auto Road. It was sunny and quite warm at the bottom, but we drove into pea soup fog (it was fog lights and hazards for
Mount Washington – Sargent’s Purchase, NH Read More »
This is an anthology of fairy tale retellings with a romantic bent. Like many anthologies, some are definitely better than others (I only gave up on one – it was so blatantly a rip off of the Disney version of that tale that I just couldn’t keep going). It was a good, light read for
Once Upon a Kiss – ed. Althea Kontis Read More »
This is the Immie Tee by Carrie Bostick Hoge, using Quince and Co Tern in the Buoy colorway. I’m making this for the younger niece, since yellow is her favorite color in all the world. I’m doing the age 4 version, but in the called for needle size (I normally go up a
I feel like I’m a little behind in garden updates, but things were just kind of starting for while, and then it got hot. So things are really chugging along at the moment, but I’m not necessarily sticking around to get pictures. It’s more quick weeding, watering, and getting the heck back out of the
This is companion book to the Kate Daniels series – it’s the story of her best friend, Andrea Nash, coming to terms with the fact that she’s been outed as a werehyena (and a beastkin werehyena at that). There’s a companion Kate Daniels story at the back of the book that tells what’s going on
Gunmetal Magic – Ilona Andrews Read More »
The book touches on the plant families that are important for agriculture and gardening in temperate zones, though it’ll touch on which ones have cross over into tropical zones. Since I do track the families of the flowers I’m labeling for Wayside Flowers, it’s interesting to me to see how the family relationships are classified
Temperate Garden Plant Families – Peter Goldblatt and John C. Manning Read More »
Here’s today’s project. The food forest attached to the community garden has two beautiful elder shrubs. I was out at around 8:00 this morning to beat the heat and humidity. I pulled off 18 heads, and you wouldn’t even know I was there. Making a sugar syrup was not my idea of the
