Read for the Armchair Traveler’s Reading Challenge. Yemen is probably best known to Americans these days as the site of the USS Cole bombing, which is a shame, as this books paints a picture of a fascinating country with a long history. The author first traveled to Yemen because he was learning Arabic and desired […]
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Due to the excessive rain today (I’d wanted to get some gardening done before departing for my vacation on Wednesday), I managed to get the rest of the squares evened out in my celestial postage stamp quilt. I toyed with the idea of at least getting strips together, but the near dusk-like quality of the
A mere two weeks and two days later, I finally regained the full use of my computer, just in time to be going on vacation next Wednesday! Ah well. Hopefully, I’ll still have the time to catch up on some of the posts I’d wanted to do. At the very least, last night after only
Read for the Armchair Traveler Reading Challenge. Along the Inca Trail is subtitled “A Woman’s Journey into an Ancient Empire”, which pretty well sums up this book. It’s her chronicle of a six and half month journey through Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile, along the paths of the ancients Inca highways. The narrative is interspersed
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Well, I’m mildly ashamed that this is my first post for the month of July, but not only is my computer still unformatted, but I’ve had to take some time to deal with the conclusion of my grandmother’s fight with ALS. I’ve come by my crafting skills from Grammie. In her later years, she made
This book had caught my eye at Borders. The cover art is a 14th century Syrian painting of horseman galloping around a body of water. I admit to being somewhat curious about the history of Islam, due to recent events in the world, and immediately added the book to my reading list. I was most
Note to self: Next time BF decides to upgrade your computer to actually give you decent processing speed, do not allow him to buy the next Lego Star Wars game until he has finished wiping your soon to be backup drive so he reinstall the hard drive and actually get the computer to fully work.
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Part of the reason I started this blog was to keep to track of my reading, and give myself a place to document a challenge or two, as I kept challenges I wanted to do in my lurking travels. So I was excited when I saw the Armchair Traveler Challenge, which is quite possibly the
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I had seen this book at Borders, and it has a recommendation from Charles de Lint on the cover and is set in Maine, but I couldn’t quite bring myself to pay full price for it. So I was pleased when it turned up at the Big Chicken Barn used bookstore last time I was
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Had a great week for flower photos. This is probably the best time of year for flowers. Now, if only I could get enough room to grown these kind of things on my own property…
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