April
I most definitely do not approve.
Knitting Notes
This is the Forest Park Cowl, by Liz Abinante, using I Knit or Dye Killing Me Softly Aran in the Natural Light Brown colorway. It’s a good weight of yarn, and the type of pattern I know I can do. If I can’t manage to see this through to completion, I give up.
The Perilous Sea – Sherry Thomas
I stumbled upon the first book in this series – The Burning Sky – as a Kindle deal when it was newly published, and I’ve been meaning to get back to this series for ages. A gift subscription threw it into my lap this week, and I was barely a few pages in when I
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The Paper Magician – Charlie N. Holmberg
Ceony has finished her work at the Tagis Praff School for Magic Workings in record time – a year – and though she had wanted to be a Smelter, because of some arcane rules of balance, she’s apprenticed instead to work with a Folder – a paper magician. And once you are bonded to a
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Goldenhand – Garth Nix
I had no idea there was a new Old Kingdom book coming out. I had a very pleasant surprise when it came out as a Kindle daily deal (bought that, and then promptly bought the hardcover as well – this is one of the few series I’ll buy in hardcover.) This book picks up with
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Knitting Notes
Whelp, the Blank Canvas Sweater is frogged. I got up to the neckline, pre-shaping, and I could tell I wouldn’t have enough yarn to do the full shaping. So I tried it on, to see if making it into a scoop neck would work. And the torso was a smidge too short
Garden Notes
My seedlings have been doing great, enough that I moved the Swiss chard, zinnias, calendula, kale, and the lone nasturtium, to bigger pots this weekend. The husk cherries only finally sprouted last week, and the blood sorrel is still pretty small, so I’m waiting a bit on those.
Descanso Gardens – La Canada Flintridge, CA
The other garden we visited was Descanso, which is more of a local garden. Not as large as Huntington, but certainly beloved – the line to get in was crazy! I was able to use my Coastal Maine Botanical Garden reciprocal membership here – first use of that for the year, even ahead
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Huntington Botanical Gardens – San Marino, CA
‘ve been to the Huntington once before, the first time I ever visited my sister, back in the misty depths of time before I owned a digital camera (hard to believe there was a time when that was the case). It’s one of those places you can visit many, many times because it’s so
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California
I got back on Tuesday from a whirlwind trip to California. I had originally been scheduled to fly out the Tuesday before, but Mother Nature chose to grace us with sixteen inches of snow that day. Fortunately, I’d seen the writing on the wall that weekend, and moved my flight out to Thursday.