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Vivid Blanket

Knitting Notes

Leave a Comment / At Home, Knitting / Megan

Here’s the Vivid blanket. I called this finished this week, but as I was laying it out to take pictures, it’s just not quite big enough. I have plenty of yarn left, so I can do one more square per color. That’ll add another long row, and that feels like it’ll balance it out correctly. […]

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2026 seed starting

Garden Notes

Leave a Comment / At Home, Gardening / Megan

I started seeds yesterday. I have been rewarded today with a snow storm. Happy Spring? The flat on the left is the columbine I started before we left for Denmark. They sprouted the day after we got home, so that’s coming along nicely.

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Wild Sign – Patricia Briggs

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Anna and Charles are called in to investigate the disappearance of a community squatting on land that it turns out the pack owns in the California mountains. Due to prior events, the FBI has decided that Anna must lead the werewolves, and Bran is happy to not disabuse them of that notion, so he lets

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Trio of Sorcery – Mercedes Lackey

Leave a Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

This book has three different novellas, two from Lackey’s early series, and a standalone third story. I loved the intros to each, because she wrote them for any younger person reading those earlier stories today, so set the scene of how technology has changed since those two older series. I have not read any of

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Vivid Blanket

Knitting Notes

Leave a Comment / At Home, Knitting / Megan

The Vivid blanket squares are done. Well, other than weaving in. I did go back and redo the binding on several of them to make sure they were loose enough.

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Cast in Silence – Michelle Sagara

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I’m continually impressed by the world building in this series. The author is going after certain archetypes of fantasy races in the various peoples that live in the city of Elantra, but they’ve all got some interesting twists to them. And Kaylin as a character continues to have a very interesting back story for someone

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Sanctuary – Ilona Andrews

Leave a Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

This book focuses on Roman, from the Kate Daniels books, priest of Chernobog, the god of destruction, death and darkness. Contrary to what that could make you think of how he should be as a person, we get to see Roman as a protector of the innocent and therapist to the gods. The authors do

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The Christmas Chronicles – Nigel Slater

Leave a Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

I love that Nigel Slater’s books are read through cookbooks. I enjoy the recipes, but the atmospheric intros make his books for me. This book is really more about the entire first part of the winter season, which just so happens to include a lot of Christmas traditions. Since that’s pretty much how I’ve landed

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Mysteries of Thorn Manor – Margaret Rogerson

Leave a Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

This is a fun continuation of Sorcery of Thorns.    Nathaniel and Elisabeth have been living at Thorn Manor for a few months when it starts to go crazy, and they have to figure out exactly what the house wants.    It’s a fun romp through a semi-sentient house, and it’s interesting to explore Nathaniel’s family history,

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The Near Witch – V. E. Schwab

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Lexi lives in the small village of Near, where everyone knows each other, and magic is there, but also a thing of the past.    Still, they distrust strangers in Near.    So when a stranger is seen near the village just as children start to go missing, Lexi struggles to solve the mystery of what’s happening.

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