So something dug up my Sedona coleus. The one I buy every year because it’s such a cool orange color. So I ended up repotting the red one in a slightly smaller pot. I suppose if I had to lose one, the Sedona was the better one to lose – I do have […]
If you were only reading my blog, it would seem that I haven’t been knitting for a while. I actually have been – the Evenstar shawl has been taking up all my time. But I’ve made one before, so regular updates just didn’t seem necessary. I actually finished it last week, knowing I’d need to
This book is from the 60s (genuinely – my mother snagged a copy for me at Goodwill). My mother had enjoyed it (probably for nostalgia’s sake). I will confess, I enjoyed it too, but more as a microcosm of a world most definitely gone by. This is both socially (the implication that you’re cooking because
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A little harvest from the garden. A little disappointing, since I overplanted an entire window box. I guess I need to give up on that seed packet…
I have long enjoyed the Valdemar series, so I’ve had this book on my radar for a bit, and managed to snag it from Bookmooch. I will say, I think I’m glad I didn’t really pay for it. It’s definitely the kind of thing that was much more useful before the internet came along. And
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Read for the Georgette Heyer Reading Challenge. This book is madcap. Pretty much no other way to describe it. Mr. John Staple, lately returned from the Wars, where he was a captain, has been summoned with the rest of the family to celebrate his cousin’s engagement. Bored out of his skull, he decides to visit
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I like Valdemar, and I like that the author has opened it up to other authors in the short story anthologies she’s been publishing. Some are definitely better than others. This is one of the others. None of the stories particularly stuck out at me, but I enjoyed my read. Definitely comfort food reading if
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Hard to believe Spring is over already, and the Once Upon a Time reading challenge is done. Per usual, I did challenge the first, which was to read at least five books in the challenge categories. I managed 13. I’d say four were folklore, one was straight mythology, two were fairy tale based, and
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On the plus side, I did have enough mulch to cover the areas that needed it the most. I was a little bad this year, and did something I’d never done before: cut back the daffodil foliage before it completely died back. Since they had their best ever Spring after the winter of doom for
Read for the Once Upon a Time VIII Reading Challenge. Well here’s something you don’t see every day – a non-Newford Charles de Lint book. Angharad is a tinker. When her entire family is killed by a plague, she’s not sure how to go on, but the fey of the land gift her a harp,
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