This book occurs relatively late in the timeline of this series, and concerns Miles’ cousin Ivan. It’s more or less the story of how a notorious womanizer finally finds the right woman, and settles down. It helps that the right woman is one of the daughters of one of the baronial families of Jackson’s Whole. […]
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The Lana Plantae Rambouillet Fingering in Cochineal & Madder is finally used up! The “problem” with this yarn is that it’s a 500 yard skein (as opposed to a 100 g skein), so it feels like it took forever to finally use up. I really did like this yarn, the color is so cool. It’s
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Tragically, going to Wolfes Neck practically forces us by Estabrook’s in Yarmouth, so here’s today’s haul from there. We got three of the red verbena that did so well up front last summer, a red nicotiana (that looks more robust than the ones I grew last year), a Rozanne geranium, some supplemental Swiss chard, a
I do miss Carrie Fisher. She had such a great writing voice, and it was so nice to see her commentary on various things, knowing she had fully reached that lovely stage of being a woman of a certain age who no longer has any fucks to give. I wish I could have seen what
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This book is thirty five years old (with a nice, new cover) and in hindsight, that’s absolutely obvious when reading it. The plot is very quick, very fun, and very fast. I think today, you would have gotten a lot more detail about the various intrigues. Basically, the evil Duke of Tilbury is out to
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Pattern: Mini Newfoundland Mittens by Streelymade DesignsNeedles: Size 2.5 DPNsYarn: Lana Plantae Rambouillet Fingering in Cochineal & Madder, Quince and Co Chickadee in Iceland and Quince and Co Finch in Egret This was an interesting pattern. I’m not sure I ultimately loved the trigger finger version, but it’s a fun pattern, and plenty of variety
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So remember how proud I was of myself for resisting the siren call of dahlia tubers? It didn’t last. I got four more colors. I’m thinking I may try storing half of them in my mother’s basement, to insure better winter survival. In other news, I have most of the rest of the seedlings planted
Miyara is a princess, on the eve of the day she’s supposed to dedicate herself in service to her people. She’s the fourth daughter, so her older sisters have taken their own paths, and she’s at a loss for what to do herself. So she chooses to leave, which exiles herself from her family. So
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We’ve had a stretch of really blah weather for a bit now, so while there are definite signs of Spring (all of the above pictures are from my backyard), I have not been out doing as much yardwork as I would like. I have plans, but not enough dry hours to accomplish all of them.
This is the second book in a series that started as a retelling of Pride and Prejudice, with dragons. Alaistair and Aliza are now married, and the story goes off into original territory. There’s some good world building here – quite a bit of interesting mythology, with a twist, comes in. But the story can
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