I swore no more dahlias after I realized I no longer had a way to store them. (With the heat pump install last year, we now have to keep our back room’s door open to get heat in there. It used to just be the end of the line of our furnace circuit, which kept […]
So, remember that pile of mulch we got delivered the beginning of the week in April I ended up coming down with Covid? Yep, just finally spread the rest of it out. It’s a little lumpy, because the roots of the arborvitae next to it had started to grow into it. Oops! So I’ll have
Pattern: Heidi by Katya FrankelYarn: Quince and Co Whimbrel in the Bowsprit colorwayNeedles: Size 4 Circs and DPNs and Size 3 DPNs So I really screwed up the needle sizes. With my normal gauge, I probably should have used 6’s and 7’s. I think I may have been thrown off by the mm sizes
This was a fun story – novella sized. Miss Mnemosyne Seabourne is on the older end of the marriage market in the Tea Cup Isles (in a Regency-ish alternate version of England with more islands and magic), but she’s rich enough that she can afford to wait for the right husband. She’s been invited to
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I really enjoyed this – the last story in Catalina’s arc. There’s a terrible attack on a government figure, and the Warden of Texas ends up out of commission as well, which puts Catalina in charge of the investigation. Turns out Alessandro’s enemy Arkan is behind it all, and a Russian prince manages to get
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Full moon high tide with the remnants of Hurricane Earl passing offshore edition.
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The garden is doing pretty well – I’ve been making decent dinners with our produce. The heat probably wasn’t the best for it, but I was at least able to keep the food alive. I had to top the tomatoes today – they’re putting on a ton of new growth that can’t all ripen if
Read for LibraryThing EarlyReviewers. I really enjoyed this book – it’s a really nice twist on the princess being rescued by a prince trope. I really like that we get both Esme and Rory’s points of view. Esme’s been told all her life that she’ll be a queen (even though she’s a peasant), so when
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