Two Lights State Park – Cape Elizabeth, ME
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Knitting Notes
Pattern: Baby Berry hat by Michele SabatierYarn: Patternworks Breton Heathers and Knit Picks Capra in PestoNeedles: Size 7 and 8 DPNs There are more baby cousins on the way, so I turned to this trusty hat pattern, which has the bonus of using up yarn (though it’s still not totally gone in either case. Baby
Garden Notes
The snow’s melting, and the crocus are up! (They’ve probably been up for a week, but we’ve had two snow storms (yes, it is April) over the past week, so pictures weren’t easy to get. So I knew I was growing way more seedlings than I did before, so I bought another grow light.
The Enchantment Emporium – Tanya Huff
The Gale family works charms that can have a remarkable effect on the world around them. The Aunts rule the family, and have a pretty iron hand in how the younger members of the family will end up living their lives. So when Alysha’s grandmother (who herself defied the other Aunts by moving away) passes
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Tortall and Other Lands – Tamora Pierce
I am so behind with certain authors – Tamora Pierce being high on that list. This book was published in 2011, and has a collections of stories spanning all of Pierce’s various series, as well as one that’s in the real world. I definitely liked some stories better than others, but I will say, I
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Crescent Beach State Park and More 2018 Storm Damage
What a difference a month makes. It’s amazing how much sand the water has already pushed out of the dunes from the large nor’easter that came through the last time we were at Crescent. For that particular storm, we’d really just gotten the coastal flooding effects. We got four total nor’easters this February/March.
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One Fell Sweep – Ilona Andrews
In the third book of this series, Dina gets a message from her sister Maud. Last anyone knew, Maud was with her vampire husband out somewhere in the wider universe, and Dina’s shocked to get a request for rescue from her. She calls in some favors from her sometime ally Arland, Marshall of one of
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Knitting Notes
Pattern: Coffee and Tea DK Potholders by Elizabeth EvansYarn: Briggs and Little Heritage, Natural White and Blue HeatherNeedles: Size 8 circs Found this pattern and thought it would be a great way to use up some yarn – it made a lovely sized trivet, perfect for resting a tea pot on. There’s a coffee
Garden Notes
One of my clivia is finally blooming – for the first time in about five years, I think. I’d really missed them – it’s such a nice sign of things to come this time of year. In other news, my seedlings are doing really well – I need to get a bunch of them into