I am apparently not meant to be making a hat right now. I got about three rows into the actual pattern of the current (third) attempt, and realized I had twisted it when I joined it to knit in the round. I officially give up. I’ve added the three recent attempted patterns back […]
Sophronia and her friends are back at school after their adventures in London. They’re being introduced to the fine art of seduction, and Sophronia’s not sure what to do about her dueling feelings for Lord Felix Mersey and the sootie Soap. Things are going pretty well until her friend Sidheag receives some devastating news –
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Elinor is on her way to become a governess for a wealthy woman in the country – a job she’s had to take after her father gambled away the family’s fortune. She’s met at the post coach by the house’s personal coach, and about an hour later is shown into the study of a man
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The Blank Canvas sweater is doing much better. I’ve finished the main part of the body of the 40″ size, and the fit is much, much better. (Though I’m definitely lifelining the crap out of everything so I can start over at any one point, at will.) I’ve started out on the first
I did a little movement with the houseplants this week, so it seemed a good time for a status check. Things mostly seem fine after the summer vacation and repotting I was forced into by an infestation last winter. About the only thing that really changed is that I can no longer keep the
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And so it begins… Next weekend is going to be seed starting time, so I cleaned up and gathered things together this weekend. I had to restock the peat pellets. (What I plan to do this year is start them in the peat pellets, and put them in the little pots when I
Lady Emily Hardcastle and her maid Flo are retiring to the country after an apparently interesting time traveling the world, both before and after the death of Lady Hardcastle’s husband. Naturally, there’s a murder in their new village, and they feel compelled to investigate. I was a little let down by the women’s past. I was
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After a relatively uneventful season, winter finally decided to show up. It snowed all day Friday the 10th, fitfully Saturday the 11th (it was considered a separate storm), then started later in the Sunday on Sunday the 12th and went all the way through the next day. And then it decided
And so it begins… Here are this year’s seeds. I have some leftover Tuscan kale I’ll try to use one last time this year, as well. Definitely more flowers this year. I saw calendula mixed in with Tuscan kale in the Kitchen Garden at the Coastal Maine Botanical Garden last summer, and having
Adam Ryan was twelve when he and two friends disappeared in the woods in a housing development outside of Dublin. He was found a day later with several gashes, and someone else’s blood on him. He also had no memories of anything before that day. In the aftermath, his family moved away, and he was
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