I love how those lovely red crab apples created a psychedelic pink juice (which sadly the camera did not do justice too), and then calmed down into a lovely red jelly. (Which the camera also did not do justice too – it look much more pink in the photo.) This is the Old Fashioned Crab […]
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Read for the Georgette Heyer Reading Challenge. Adam Deveril had always been army mad, and though he’s the heir to his father, the Viscount Lynton, his father (an associate of the Prince Regent’s, and if you know your history, you know what kind of men he liked to hang out with) never really bothered to
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My sister and her BF were in from California last week, and since he’s a native Southern Californian, we had to bring him apple picking. I did get some regular old apples, but my big haul were some lovely, bright red crab apples, with which I will be making jelly at some point during the
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I’ve finished the first of my Little Cable Knee Highs. And they fit! (And man, is it hard to take a selfie of the back of your own leg and keep that leg straight!)
Read for the RIP IX Reading Challenge. Mercy Thompson can’t catch a break. This is the third book in the series. After the first, she owed the vampires for their help with the werewolves, and now, after the second book, she owes the Fae for their help while she discharged her debt to the vampires.
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LibraryThing Early Readers book. I will admit, I would probably never have bought this book, but I’m really happy to have it. It’s exactly what the title says it is – Jane Austen book covers through the years from first publication, up to the present day. It’s a really neat study on changing times, changing
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Read for the Georgette Heyer Reading Challenge. When you’ve read enough of Heyer’s work, you begin to sense certain themes. One of her favorites is a slightly older women (older being relative in Regency times) who’s practically on the shelf, and has given up on the idea of marriage for some reason (fortunately, she’s also
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It’s that time of year where things are producing nicely (seriously, my cherry tomatoes are still trying to take over the world), but things don’t necessarily look so great any more. I pulled up SO much crab grass this morning. I also spent some quality time with the climbing rose and pulled out all the
