I’ve got a lot of almost ready to fully blooms outside at the moment, due to all the rain. The pinks and Russian sage in the bottom two pictures have buds all over the place. I’ll actually be interested to see what they look like at the end of the weekend with all the heat. […]
My other two bearded iris are blooming, and have brought a bit of a mystery. The iris I had previously labeled as Harvest King in my last iris post is actually Chinese New Year 1996. That means that the top iris in this post is a Supreme Sultan Old. That leaves the bottom picture to
Last night, I cast on some Nutkin socks out of the Pine Woods sock yarn I bought at Seaport Yarns. These are for Mother’s Day (yes, I know it’s a little late for that, but she only decided the day before Mother’s Day that she wanted socks, and then told me it was ok to
Read for the Mythopoeic Award and Once Upon a Time II reading challenges. The Sorceress and the Cygnet is a beautifully written, very dense book. The story is told from two points of view: Corleu, a Wayfolk man forced into finding legends made flesh to rescue those he loves, and Meguet, the guardian of the
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So May is apparently the month of the frog. I was all proud of myself last night when I reached the end of the last half pattern repeat on the Embossed Leaves socks before I could start the toe. And then I checked the measurement, and it was a full inch shorter then it should
Summer is here to far as I’m concerned. My iris are blooming! The top one is a Harvest King bearded iris, the bottom two are old fashioned iris that were already in the garden (though buried within the rampaging rose bush). I have two other colors of the large bearded iris that are budding, but
So I finally sucked it up and took the Sitcom Chic sweater out of my work bag last night. My theory of what had gone wrong was that in my haste to line up the raglan decreases on the top of the eyelet rows, I’d gotten them off at that point, and not noticed. And
It’s hot out today. I did probably the least amount of work of any of the days this weekend, but came in the stickiest. The zinnias are now planted in the side garden. I also potted an Italian parsley seedling I got a couple weeks back from my mother. So, the outside garden is done.
I’d originally chosen Patricia A. McKillip’s The Forgotten Beasts of Eld for the Mythopoeic Award Reading Challenge, and then added it to the Once Upon a Time II reading challenge. I’d planned on getting it out of the library, but this has proven impossible if I want to read it within the timeframe of the
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Finally, the cracktastic Belgariad/Mallorean rehash has come to an end! (For those of you really paying attention, I do in fact own the Rivan Codex, but I will not be dragging that out, as I don’t consider world building to be required reading. Mind you, I like the world building, I just have to be
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