Embroidery Notes
My Night Garden cross stitch is done. This was fun – pretty easy. There’s almost no back stitch, and the motifs repeat. It was a nice way to get back into things after some time away.
Winter’s Gifts – Ben Aaronovitch
We finally get a story centered on Kimberley Adams, the FBI agent who’s been over to London a couple times to help out Peter. Along the way, she’s become the go to person at the FBI for ‘unusual occurrences’, aka magic. That’s how she finds herself up in Wisconsin in the winter, with a snow
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Garden Notes
Got my first batch of seeds in yesterday. This is mainly notable for what was happening outside. We no longer have a lack of snow on the ground. In fact, after snowing all day yesterday, it turned to rain overnight, and we woke up with all this lovely ice this morning. I really hate this
Hell Bent – Leigh Bardugo
This book picks up where Ninth House left off – Alex and Dawes are trying to figure out how to get into Hell to rescue Darlington. Obviously, you really need to read the first book in the series to care why anything is happening in this book. The last book gave a pretty good flavor
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The Spare Man – Mary Robinette Kowal
This was a fun book – Tesla Crane is one of the richest people in the world, thanks to her family’s robotic business. She’s newly married, and she and her husband are on their honeymoon – a cruise to Mars. And then there’s a murder. Tesla’s husband is actually a retired detective, but he’s the
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Crescent Beach State Park and the January 2024 Storm
Finally made it down to Crescent Beach after the January storms, and it’s not great. Like canyons carved into paths and large swaths missing from the former coastal line not great. Not surprising, but still sobering. I was heartened to see that despite how warm it’s been, nothing is blooming yet.
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The Magician’s Daughter – H. G. Parry
Biddy has grown up on a hidden island off the coast of Ireland, raised by the magician Rowan and his familiar, Hutchincroft, who spends most of his time as a rabbit. It’s a rather idyllic existence, but as she gets older, she starts to realize that it’s rather odd that Rowan doesn’t allow her to
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Garden Notes
So, first day of March, and the garden has no snow on it. (Could have said the same thing for the last day of February – we had rain on Wednesday that got rid of almost all the snow. What’s left is in very shady corners.) I have never made a secret of not being
Knitting Notes
It occurred to me that I haven’t posted about my sweater project in a while. I finished the body a couple weeks ago, and then just had some trouble wrapped my head around joining the sleeves back on, in pattern. I did finally do that about a week ago, and got to the end of
Demon Daughter – Lois McMaster Bujold
This is a such a sweet little story. Otta’s six, and lives on her father’s ship. One morning, the ship’s boy finds a rat, and Otta sees a pet. The First Mate doesn’t approve, and sends the rat overboard. What they don’t know is that the rat is hosting a baby elemental – the very
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