Harvest notes: Pictures are from 10/5, 10/8 (2), 10/10 and 10/15. (Picture quality is suffering since it’s now so much darker after work.)I pulled out all the poblanos that were left on the plants yesterday. They haven’t gotten any bigger, so I figured better safe than sorry about this point.
This Brother Cadfael book actually isn’t about a murder, for a change. After Winchester was sacked as part of the civil war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud, the brothers of the Benedictine monastery there have scattered to neighboring monasteries. Brothers Humilis and Fidelis have come to Shrewsbury, which is near where Brother Humilis
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This is the second book of the second Mistborn trilogy, set three hundred years after the last trilogy. The technology of the world has come a long way, but this book especially references back to what happened in the previous trilogy (the first book of this series was lacking that to some degree). I really
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Having recently read a book about the American view of wilderness, it was very interesting to get a contemporary British view – and it very much makes me appreciate what I have in my fairly well forested state. This is an interesting book – if you’re looking for scientific details of Britain’s forest, you won’t
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So I went on a bit of binge over the past weekend, into the past few weeknights. (It was hot and humid, and doing things outside just didn’t seem fun.) So I read the first two books in a day each, and the last one over a couple nights. BF is suspicious I don’t actually
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Continuing this year’s apparent comfort reading theme, when I saw this book come up on the Prime Firsts list, I grabbed it. It was as pure escapist fun as the description implied. Mia is a famous British actress who’s just completed a film with her husband. Just in time for the publicity junket, she finds
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Harvesting continues. It’s pretty much every other day now, so I’m not posting it real time. The above are from 9/7, 9/8, 9/9, 9/10, 9/12, 9/14 and 9/17. The acorn squash on the 12th was a “No, seriously I have so many I couldn’t possible figure out what to do with them
Continuing my rereading theme, here’s the prequel to The Blue Sword. Aerin is the only child of the king, by his second wife, who some considered to be a witch, so there are whispers about her. She won’t inherit the throne – that goes to her cousin Tor. Consequently, she’s not really sure what to
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More harvest shots: 8/28, 8/30, 8/31 and 9/4. There’s a good portion of all nightshades, all the time, but I did also take out the first batch of collards to thin out the patch a bit before I left the rest get bigger.
