Pattern: Vivid by tincanknits Yarn: Cascade 220 Superwash Sport in the Really Red, Pumpkin, Daffodil, Blue Velvet, Baby Denim and Beet colorways Needles: Size 6 DPNs I finished the extra row on the Vivid blanket on Friday, and that definitely made the size better, so I’m happy to report, it’s done. I liked working with […]
This is an interesting alternate take on the Persian empire, bringing in Alexander the Great of Macedon. Nazafareen’s sister was taken by a druj (demon), and she joins the Water Dogs to try to avenge her death. The Water Dogs bind to daevas, who they are told are also druj, but there’s clearly more going
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This is a fun book – told jumping over about a twenty year period in the life of Maggie Bird, now a chicken farmer in a small town in Maine, but formerly a spy. She ended up in Purity when several of her other former spy friends settled there after their retirement, and this tale
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Here’s the Vivid blanket. I called this finished this week, but as I was laying it out to take pictures, it’s just not quite big enough. I have plenty of yarn left, so I can do one more square per color. That’ll add another long row, and that feels like it’ll balance it out correctly.
We’ve been meaning to get to a concert at the Stone Mountain Arts Center for ages now. One of my coworkers lives in the area and raves about it. We finally bit the bullet and got tickets to the Altan concert last night. They’ve been on my radar since I got a Celtic music compilation
I started seeds yesterday. I have been rewarded today with a snow storm. Happy Spring? The flat on the left is the columbine I started before we left for Denmark. They sprouted the day after we got home, so that’s coming along nicely.
Anna and Charles are called in to investigate the disappearance of a community squatting on land that it turns out the pack owns in the California mountains. Due to prior events, the FBI has decided that Anna must lead the werewolves, and Bran is happy to not disabuse them of that notion, so he lets
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This book has three different novellas, two from Lackey’s early series, and a standalone third story. I loved the intros to each, because she wrote them for any younger person reading those earlier stories today, so set the scene of how technology has changed since those two older series. I have not read any of
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We almost didn’t go to the Botanical Garden. The palm house is being restored, and it was too early in the season for their to be very much outside, right? But we ran into a cold and rainy day, and decided to chance the palm house. While it is being worked on, it is still
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