I really like knitting, but you can only make so many lace shawls before you run out of places to use them, or people to give them away to. So I’ve been thinking about something else I could do during the evening, that I can do while sitting on the couch, watching not […]
I’ve been a little under the weather since last Friday (hence the dearth of posts that I’m now trying to slam in over this weekend). But the above was Monday night’s Swiss chard harvest. That’s right, Monday, November 23rd. Because it’s been a really warm Fall. Warm enough, that
The weather is just wacky. It’s so freaking warm. I mean look at the Swiss chard! Because it can survive a frost or two, it’s doing beautifully. So it’s made putting the garden to bed this year problematic. Some things are done – I pulled out the clematis yesterday, so that
I’ve had this book in the Tote of Shame ™ for a while – I think because I’d never read any of the author’s work before, so I really wasn’t sure to expect. So I’ve been passing it by because I never know if it’s going to fit whatever reading mood I’m in
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So, being at loose knit ends again, I’ve cast on some socks. Which will probably be going to my friend K. This is Cookie A’s Elm Socks, in Knit Picks Stroll in the Pine colorway. (I think I’ve actually had it so long it’s technically Essential Yarn in the Pine
Pattern: Multidirectional Diagonal Scarf by Karen BaumerYarn: Tess’s Designer Yarns Microfiber RibbonNeedles: Size 6 circs This is one of the few times I’ve seen a knit sample at a yarn store and said, you know, I really want to make exactly that. I’ve never knit before with this ribbon, but this particular skein
I think what I most liked about this book was that Gaiman outlined where each of the stories or poems came from in the introduction. That’s not something authors do often, though he mentioned he thought this was his least thematic short story collection, so perhaps that was his way of pulling things
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I am so conflicted about this book. To the point of where if I had not already read the two books that came before it, I don’t think I would have finished it. And I’m really not sure if I’m going to pass it on to the two people that I had loaned
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So I pulled the tomatoes out last Saturday. One of them was mostly dead, and there was a frost coming. I’d like to take note of the lush shiso and nasturtiums above. They’re gone now. That frost was definitely a game changer.
I read the precursor to this book – A Thousand Days in Venice – quite a while ago. In that book, the author had thrown her life in the US over to go to Italy and marry a man she didn’t know very well. The first book is the story of her learning
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