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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Theo and his mother were at the Met (well, I can’t remember if it was really called the Met in the book, but it was the Met) because Theo was suspended from school. On the way back from a meeting all about him, she decided to stop at the museum because they had a painting
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A winter’s weekend walk.
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Well, both of the projects I’ve started so far this year have been frogged. In the case of the Blank Canvas sweater, even though I’m supposedly matching gauge, it was too big. I’d gotten all they way to the chest and where you pause before making and attaching the sleeves, and it was just
I’ve been in the mood for comfort reading lately. I do have some weightier books also in progress, but I’m finding I can’t get through a 784 page book that’s not about the happiest themes in the world without breaks. (I don’t use this blog to get political, but I’m sure if you pay attention
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