We are in peak violet and wild strawberry cover season in the back yard – it makes me happy every time I look out the back windows. The rest of my dahlias came in on Thursday, so I had them all planted by Friday. And one of the early batch has sprouted! I am glad […]
Fern, who we first met in Bookshops & Bonedust, has uprooted her life to open a new bookshop next to the Legends and Lattes coffee shop run by her friend Viv. She’s long been unhappy at home, and thought for sure this would solve those feelings. But it doesn’t. While fortifying herself with some liquid
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I’m starting my dahlias inside this year. It’s just been so cold I don’t trust having them in the greenhouse yet. I’ll just have to be very careful getting them out of these pots this time, so I don’t repeat my mistakes from the last time I did this. These are six of the seven
This is a lovely little fairy tale. Celia’s father helped their country win the war against the neighboring Summerlings (they’re Fae), and gained great power doing so. Celia is the youngest, and the only girl. And when her beloved oldest brother renounces their father’s name, she curses him, not realizing that she has inherited the
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Pattern: Hibernal Solstice Hat by Katie Herrod Yarn: Ewingston Shetland Wool (hand dyed) and Wing & A Prayer Farm Thelma & Louise DK (undyed) Needles: Size 5 and 6 Circs and 6 DPNs This was a quick, fun knit. I really enjoyed working with both these yarns, and I still have enough left to make
Here’s the after photos since the landscaping crew came through and got rid of so many shrubs. I went through and cleaned up a lot of leaves this weekend, and we got the rain barrels out. We’re definitely going to be on sprout patrol in most of these spots – there are several invasives scattered
It’s really hard to describe this book. We open in NYC before WWII, in a world of mobsters. Pea has magical hands and works as an enforcer – she’s always believes she was given them to kill those that deserve it, but as the story goes on, she learns that that’s not always been the
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This is a charming little book. Imelda’s one of the twelve dancing princesses, and falls in love with Ambrose at her sister’s wedding. Unfortunately, she falls sick at their wedding, and a fairy godmother offers Ambrose the chance to save her, but they’ll have to lose their love for each other. So we end up
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Halla is a respectable widow who’s just inherited a fortune, and has been locked in her bedroom by the rest of her family by marriage, who want her to marry her husband’s cousin to keep the money in the family. That’s when she discovers that the dingy sword that’s been hanging there for as long
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Seedlings have been planted up. I’m having kind of a meh year with seed starting. I tried to start delphinium, and failed. I suspect I should have treated them like I did the columbine seed and stratified them first. So I’ll try that next year. It was brand new seed, so I don’t think that
