Knitting Notes
The first Sonsie hat is done. This is the slouch size. I really enjoyed the pattern, and I have enough yarn left, I figure I might as well knock out the beanie as well, while I’m at it. This really is fun pattern – very well written.
The Buried Giant – Kazuo Ishiguro
This books starts with an older couple living an old England shrouded in mist and forgetting. They’d like to venture to see their son, but they can barely remember why he left, and if they should go. They’re finally able to push through the mists enough to set out on their journey, and they encounter
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Kettle Cove State Park – Cape Elizabeth, ME
The snow pack is rapidly decreasing. We were hoping for a walk at Two Lights yesterday – I would put money on the main path there being clear, but their front entrance is blocked. It looks like they’re redoing the entrance road (the entry kiosk is completely gone at the moment). Better now than later,
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Knitting Notes
The Trisha sweater is going well. Which means I’m past the interesting bits in the yoke, and have moved into the endless stockinette portion of the body. What is cool about this is that it’s technically reverse stockinette, but the designer used short rows to turn things around so you’re knitting it as regular stockinette.
The Collected Enchantments – Theodora Goss
This collection does have some overlap with her other short story collections (my review of another is here – I’ve read another beyond this), but there is different work in here, so it’s worth getting. I really like the author’s voice – these are fairy tales retellings, or variations, or stories set in a fairy
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Garden Notes
They have emerged from the snowbank! (The weather decided to markedly warm up last week. We got rain. The snow pack has dramatically shrunk.) Granted, they’re now encased in solid ice right under the covers, which isn’t great. It should be above freezing today, so I’m going to check them later to see if any
Crescent Beach State Park – Cape Elizabeth, ME
Lovely beach day today, though not the best for taking pictures. It was about 22 degrees, with a breeze – I’m not very interested in learning what the real feel was.
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Garden Notes
Remember those seeds I winter sowed and left out on the back deck before it started snowing? I have no idea how they’re doing – they’re buried under the above. I have to assume nothing has sprouted, because it’s been cold. Like, we had a frozen pipe (that fortunately didn’t burst) one morning cold. We
Sacred Ground – Mercedes Lackey
This story is about Jennifer Talldeer, a private investigator in Oklahoma, who also happens to be an Osage shaman. Her specialty is finding Native American artifacts and returning them to their original owners. In this story, she’s hired by an insurance company after a construction project goes disastrously wrong, and the developer tries to frame
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Knitting Notes
First two yarns of 2025 are used up – these hexipuffs are the rest of the The Alpaca Yarn Co. Paca-Peds and Wonderland Yarns & Frabjous Fibers Cheshire Cat yarns I just made hats with. It was nice to get some yarn struck out of my list – I sat on all my ends last