It doesn’t look like much – but planting season is on! Today, I planted cornflowers, chocolate flowers, calendula, gem marigolds, chamomile, Thai basil, Swiss chard, lacinato kale, shallots, and two kind of eggplant. I also got this year’s application for the community garden plot on Friday, so that’s all ready to put in the mail. […]
I enjoyed this book. It’s set in a sort of alternate Russia, where the land has been split by the Shadow Fold, or Unsea – a place of darkness, inhabited by monsters. The Grisha can work magic, and use their various abilities to try and keep the shadows at bay. Alina is an orphan. She
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I’ve extended my seed starting kit – I’ve now got two grow lights, and I got shelves to attach them both to. I don’t plan on actually planting anything until next weekend, and won’t need this until anything actually sprouts, but it snowed today, so seemed as good a time as any to get this
This book take place after Wildwood Dancing, focusing on Paula, one of the younger sisters from the previous book. Paula’s the family scholar, and after her father’s assistant falls ill, he asks her to come with him to Istanbul, where he’s been asked to find an artifact called Cybele’s Gift, for a wealthy client. Istanbul
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It got up to 50 degrees today, the kind of day that begged for a walk. Two Lights is my old reliable in the winter- so long as we’ve had any amount of warming (it’s been above freezing, mostly, for the last week), the oceanside paths at least, will be clear.
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This book skews to the younger side of the author’s work, more young reader than young adult. Princess Anya and her sister Morven are unlucky enough to have two step parents – first their mother died, introducing their step mother, and then, when their father died, she remarried their step-step father. Who is an evil
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This is the second book of the Herald’s Collegium series. Mags is settling into life at the Collegium, learning to fit into this world he find himself in, but also developing the gifts that will eventually make him into a spy. Things seem to be going well until every Foreseer in the kingdom sees Mags,
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Kate and the Beast Lord are asked to go to Europe to be the third party at some important negotiations between three European packs. It’s an offer they can’t refuse – the payment will be in panacea, the availability of which is the difference between life and death when shape shifter children reach adolescence. They’re
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Seed buying is complete. I even have the lavender in the fridge doing a six week pre-planting primer I saw recommended. I’m so ready for Spring to show up. (It’s at least lighter in the evening, and we’re getting above freezing temperatures with some regularity…)
The priest of the lay parish attached to the Abbey has died, and when the Abbot returns from a meeting of the English church fathers, he brings a replacement with him. Father Ailnoth brings with him a housekeeper and her nephew, a young lad who’s quickly volunteered for help for Brother Cadfael. The old priest,
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