The Nutkin socks are done! I’m overall very happy with the pattern, even if the short row heels (and toes) did initially kick my butt. Once I found a short row method I actually liked, I was much happier with that part of the project, and pretty much breezed through those sections in the second […]
The garden is coming along quite nicely. It’s actually fairly colorful the entire way down the line, on top of a great deal of various green foliage. I seem to have hit upon a fairly good mix to obscure the worst of the bulb foliage, so while a good chunk of that is still there,
I’ve been both looking forward to and dreading this book. The dread stems from the fact that Marion Zimmer Bradley has actually been dead for some time now, and I’m not overly fond of the author that her literary trust assigned to continue with the Darkover books. I got into Darkover shortly after Bradley died,
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A random hollyhock has appeared in my garden. Actually, after a little pondering, I’m fairly sure I’ve been weeding those out aggressively for the past four years. It is in the middle of the patch where the rose once reigned supreme, so I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised, but it’s just so random! In other
This is a lovely little book with a charming coming of age story set in the world of Norse Mythology. Odd is a crippled boy who falls into the company of the gods Odin, Thor and Loki, and is able to help them regain Asgard from a frost giant who had overpowered and thrown the
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I broke down and joined a sock club – the Three Irish Girls Sock Yarnistas club. I had to. All their yarns have Irish themed names. I’ve only toned down my everything Irish obsession because of my inability to do Irish Gaelic classes. And the yarns are so pretty, with such an interesting variety of
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Read for the TBR 2008 Reading Challenge I’ve been hung up a bit on my TBR Challenge reading, because I’ve been totally hung up trying to get through the Idylls of the King. I picked this up back in the days when I was reading anything Arthurian that I could get my hands on (about
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In honor of the first weekend of summer, a collage of my most recent flower pictures. I’m hoping to add to the collection with visits to the peonies in Falmouth and the rose garden at Deering Oaks.
Nutkin sock number 1 is done. I even managed to do the short row toe using the actual pattern method, instead of resorting back to the wrap instructions I’d had to use for the heel. I did have a few too many stitches when I was done, but it was nothing I couldn’t decrease into
I’m done with the Once Upon a Time Reading Challenge! I believe this was the fifth challenge I actually signed up for this year, but it’s the first I’ve finished. I’m feeling quite accomplished with that. I did end up changing my list a bit. The original list was: Anansi Boys – Neil GaimanThe NibelungenliedHowl’s
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