Calder is a Fetch – the chosen dead that guide most souls to Heaven. They’re specially chosen, but Calder has always wondered if his being chosen was a mistake. One day, he arrives at the death bed of a baby, and falls in love with the baby’s nanny. This […]
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Read for the Once Upon a Time IX Reading Challenge. I do love these books. I’ve read two of the three in this series so far, and both have made me cry. (Which is a high compliment. I don’t cry for books.) In the Dells, there are monsters – varieties of animals
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Read for the Once Upon a Time IX Reading Challenge. Firethorn had grown up as the servant of a woman of the Blood, but when the Dame died, and her nephew inherited her property, Firethorn fled to the King’s Forest, where she lived for a year. In that time, she was forced to eat
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Read for the Once Upon a Time IX Reading Challenge. What I really like about Brandon Sanderson’s work is that he comes up with fresh, incredibly different systems of magic for all of his separate worlds. Figuring out how things work is half the fun of his novels. This particular book is slanted
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So in the depths of February, in the worst of the cold, I got a Burpee’s enewsletter with free seed shipping. You can imagine what happened next. I mean, I pretty much had SAD at that point. I’ve not done seed starting before because of space considerations, and what light I have available.
The snowbanks are shrinking! It’s still a little depressing in the back yard, but it’s getting better. I can actually see bare ground back there now. Heck, if you look really, really carefully below, you can see the composter sticking out of the large front snow bank. (You can totally
This is a neat little book – it’s got pictures of all the known stable elements. (Well, he’s stretching a bit for a few at the far end of stability, but there are also little write ups with each element to tell you why.) So I’ve really been enjoying having the Kindle app on
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This post really belongs in March, but said road trip involved a Monday and Tuesday off, and my track record for posting during the week isn’t great, hence why it ended up in April… After the Winter That Would Not End ™, we really needed to get the heck out of Dodge. BF’s brother
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Here’s as much of the sky scarf as I’ve completed in March – I know I won’t be doing any more blog posts before 3/31. It’s a little more blue this month, at least. In other projects, I’ve cast on Susan Lazenby’s Arianrhod shawl. This is for my sister, who’s getting
Read for the Once Upon a Time IX Reading Challenge. Atrix Wolfe is the foremost mage of Chamenuard, and finds himself on battleground in neighboring Pelucir. The prince of Kardeth is laying seige to the King of Pelucir, and if Pelucir falls, Chamenuard will be next. Mages are not meant to
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