The garlic came out on 7/24. The leaves weren’t quite as dead as I normally look for, but the consensus on the local gardening boards was to pull it. With all the rain we’ve been getting, apparently a lot of people are getting split heads. Mine’s looking pretty good, so I’m happy I pulled it […]
This is a really interesting book, written for lay people, that does a great overview of Earth’s atmosphere. I really enjoyed this – I had at least heard of most of the things that were covered, but this book went into detail about a number of the phenomena, and covered the scientists that had discovered
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I had a used copy of this book my mother had found at Goodwill, back when I was in high school, and was reading everything King Arthur I could get my hands on. (This author did an Arthur series.) I remember reading it several times, and really enjoying it, so I snapped up a cheap
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It’s still raining a lot. My peppers are still sulking (see below). But there are flowers. I actually feel fairly lucky. There are lots of people on the local gardening boards I follow that are having completely terrible years. I will get a harvest, even if it’s not the best I’ve ever had. I don’t
This latest installment of the Wayward Children novellas take a slightly darker (which is saying something) turn. Cora was taken in by the Drowned Gods of the Moors when she and her friends were last there, and is afraid that it’ll mean she can never go back to her own world of the Trenches. So
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I feel like I’ve barely posted anything in the wildflower department this spring, and there are a couple reasons for that. Our trips to Paris and Montreal took place over a couple prime wildflower weekends. No surprise really, of course some of the nicest weekends to be away are going to be nice at home
Ropa lives in Edinburgh, and makes a living a messenger for the dead – bringing messages back to their loved ones. While it’s clearly a fantasy, it starts out in what could be our world, but very quickly, clues start to come in that Ropa’s world is not at all like ours. The people of
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I started this book back on September 15th. It’s in translation from Polish, and I’d be curious to see if it’s as dense in that language as in English. I had to take long pauses between readings. Honestly, I usually dump a book by now with pauses this long in between, but I really did
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This is a collection of novellas, so I’ve read some before (Earthsea), but some were new to me. It’s LeGuin, so they’re all good. I think with anything of hers, it’s a matter of what I’m in the mood to have stick with me. This time it was “Paradises Lost”, which is set on a
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I’ve brought the In Dreams shawl out of hibernation. It’s been a year in a half – I really meant to get back to it sooner. I’d already invested in some metal needle tips, which have helped. And what I’ve learned this time around is that I really, really need to pay attention to the
