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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I don’t recommend The Road for bed-time reading. In fact, it took me about three times as long as it normally does to read a book because I had to stop reading it in my normal before bed reading slot. This book is set in nuclear winter, and is the story of a father and
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Broadway Gardens was open at 8 this morning, and someone was snoring like a wounded harbor seal at about 8:15 this morning, so since I was awake, I got up, took a shower, grabbed an iced coffee at DD, and arrived at about 8:45. This turned out to be the perfect time. I got a
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The Memorial Day Garden Marathon part one is over! This morning (I’ve gotten smarter about these things, and just go out early before I’ve actually showered), I headed out and planted the six plants I’ve already managed to pick up before my regularly scheduled trip to Broadway Gardens. Above is the back yard shade garden,
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This past weekend, we headed up to Ellsworth to visit my father and C. As you can see, it’s taken me three days to recover from the trip enough to post about it. Item #1 to love about Ellsworth: The greenhouse in Dad and C’s house. We actually got there just in time for this
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