So there’s a little room above because I had to give up on the larger pot of cauliflower. I could never keep them moist, and they never grew past seedling stage. The pot that did survive is below, and you can see that it’s shaded a bit by the coreopsis. That […]
With the addition of: Knitpicks Wool of the Andes in Coal, Bamboo Heather and Camel Heather, Studio Donegal Aran Tweed and Knit Picks Chroma Worsted in Weathervane, I have now added all of the scraps of worsted or aran weight yarn I have hanging around to this blanket. It’s pretty much crib size right
LibraryThing Early Reviewers book. I’ll admit, I was a little worried about this book based on the preview write up – they’re definitely trying to market this to the Downtown Abbey fan crowd, and have pitched it accordingly. I was a afraid it was going to go for a slightly sensationalist bent, but
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Read for the Once Upon a Time X Reading Challenge. Fiametta is the daughter of a goldsmith in an alternate Renaissance Italy where magic controls many of the arts, including her father’s. Fiamatta herself is a mage, but her father has not trained her – as a daughter, her abilities will eventually be lost
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Read for the Once Upon a Time X Reading Challenge. This is a nicely redone edition of a 1920 Dover compilation (originally entitled The Children of Odin). It covers the range of Norse mythology – from the creation of the world, Odin’s many adventures, Loki’s many adventures, and Sigurd and the Twilight of the
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The scrappy garter stitch blanket is coming along. I’ve greatly reduced my worsted weight ends stash. Since I last checked in, I’ve added the following to the blanket: Knit Picks Wool of the Andes in Baltic Heather, Shire Heather and Brass Heather colorways, Knitpicks Wool of the Andes Superwash in Columbine, Knitpicks
I finished up the last of the neatening I needed to do in the garden this morning – nothing particularly photogenic – like fixing a broken trellis. I also brought all the houseplants out for the summer. We got some gnats over the winter (I think they came in when I repotted a
Read for the Once Upon a Time X Reading Challenge. This is a really interesting take on the Rumplestiltskin tale – it begins with a young man trying to win the right to wed his sweetheart, when the father would rather she marry the miller. So he promises to spin her a wedding dress
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I have one solitary iris (though you can see behind this one that the Siberian iris are poised to go crazy any second now), so it’s officially time to plant. The above is the before shot, when I headed out at about 8:30 this morning- well before the heat of the day (it was about
Last weekend, we did some much needed deep cleaning, so I’m fairly late posting these pictures. Because we were going away this weekend, I went ahead and bought tomatoes a week early, and because the forecast looked good, just went ahead and planted them that day, with the Swiss Chard and kale. The
