The flowers are really starting to come along – the calendula and borage in the community plot look great, and in the side garden, the zinnias are really starting to produce. The lilies are also having a good year. I had one come up randomly next to the Russian sage – I like how […]
Having finally finished the five book Pendragon Cycle, I figured I might as well finish things off for good, and read this addendum to the series. James Arthur Stuart was an officer in the British Army, and a generally decent, if nondescript guy. While trying to save his home after his parents die, he finds
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Cross ‘Rapunzel’ with the Wild West, and you get this tale, from Lackey’s Elemental Masters series, which are all set in the turn of the last century, and feature magic of the Elements – Air, Water, Fire and Earth. Giselle was adopted by an Earth Master, taken from a family that could barely afford to
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The side garden is doing well – the cherry tomatoes are definitely starting to take off, and the ground cherries are actually setting fruit. The ruffled Tuscan basil has been a bit of a bust – the other basils are just fine with the amount of water they’re getting, but I can’t keep that Tuscan
I’m only going to attempt a vague outline of this story, because if I tried to sketch the high level of the plots that actually culminate at the end, I’d both take too long, and end up being confusing. Lord Spenborough was on his second wife, as his first marriage resulted only in a daughter
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I actually had the whole week off after the Montreal trip off. (We were supposed to both have it off, until the Great Appendix Caper in February forced the BF to have to give some time back.) I have been slow in posting because our internet has been on the fritz for
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I distinctly remember my mother reading the Little House books to my sister and me before bed, over a longish period of time, as we got them from the library. It was before fourth grade, because it was in our original Portland house. There are only a few books I remember from that bedtime reading
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This book was published out of Connecticut in 1974. I tend not to go for reference books that old, but when I saw this in a used bookstore on Cape Cod, I had to pick it up, since the name of my wildflower blog is Wayside Flowers. The serendipity was a little bit too much
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The last two books in this series are a little out of sequence, since Arthur did die and was taken off to Avalon in the third book. So here in the fifth book, we have the story of the grail, in the middle of one of the times not covered in Arthur. After the battles
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So while this is done, I’m not doing the normal full write up because it’s part of a set – Poppa and baby hats for my BIL and niece. Hers will be done in black and pink. That one will be a bit more interesting – I have to adapt the pattern to
