For the moment, the garden is still fully alive. The last dahlia has finally bloomed, and everything looks pretty happy, although the deck garden is looking a little sparse with the tomato gone. This will likely change starting tomorrow – regular October weather, ie daily temps topping out maybe near 60, and the possibility of […]
The first thing I need to note about this book is that my mother and I ended up reading it at the same time. Keep in mind, I got this as a Kindle deal, so it’s been around long enough to merit the discount. (And I even bought it last December.) My mother had gone
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This is fun book. Edith is a cleryman’s daughter in vaguely Victorian England. They’ve never known much about his childhood – he was sent off to boarding school very young, and never went home. So it’s a great suprise when a letter reaches them that his brother and his nephew have died, leaving him the
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I’ve faced the two sweaters that I dropped earlier this year because they had both pissed me off, in separate ways. The first was the Orbits sweater, the remains of which you see above. Unfortunately, there’s colorwork in the sleeves. And I knit sleeves with DPNs. And the tension on the floats was not good.
Elspeth is infected with magic, in a kingdom where that will get you killed. Sent off to live with her aunt and uncle, she’s kept away from court, but is drawn back in for the Equinox celebrations. The only official magic allowed are Providence Cards, created by the Shepherd King, who sought to protect the
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Pattern: Musselburgh Hat by Ysolda Teague Yarn: Wonderland Yarns & Frabjous Fibers Cheshire Cat in the Camelot colorway Needles: Size 3 circs and DPNs This is a great little pattern – very easy (which was exactly what I needed right now) and I think it’s going to be nice and warm (which is my holy
The garden is puttering along. I’ve had to pull out all but one of the zucchini, and the cucumber as well. But the flowers are doing nicely – the fourth dahlia is set to bloom. That leaves two that haven’t set buds yet, and the new one from this year (the pot on the bottom
This is a bit of a fish out of water tale, of the year the author spend teaching in Iceland, just after their banking crash in the late 00’s. The author is from England, so it was a little funny to see some of the things she found alien about life there that I probably
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This one hits a little differently than the prior Wayward Children books. Antsy has lot a lost in her life, starting with the loss of her father when she was five. Her mother meets someone new, and that causes another kind of loss. She knows that he is no good, but no one
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It occurs to me I haven’t been posting much about the garden. It’s been chugging along, mostly. Because of the heat, I actually haven’t been faced with a glut of zucchini. About half the dahlias are now blooming, which is ahead of schedule from last year, but you can tell from the foliage that they
