Pattern: Argus by Leila RavenYarn: Quince and Co Lark in the Iceland colorwayNeedles: Size 8, 9 and 10 circs and Size 9 and 10 DPNs I can’t believe I started this back in April – it was not a hard pattern to work with at all. Granted, I did let it lie fallow for […]
In the world of this series, humans live in what we would call North America at the sufferance of the terre indigenene – the Others who lived here before humans ever found the land. Their treaties give them full control of the lands they have shared with humans, and humans occasionally need to be reminded
Vision in Silver – Anne Bishop Read More »
This is a lovely fairy tale, told in a very specific narrative style that might take a little getting used to if you’re not used to it, but gives the story a lot of richness. Paama has returned home because her marriage has failed. The local gods take this as an opportunity – they take
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Well, it happened. There was a frost last night. I spent a good chunk of time today pulling out the zinnias, zucchini, peppers, basil, tomatoes and some of the tender annuals. I had been planning on pulling out the tomatoes this weekend anyway – the ones that weren’t splitting just weren’t very nice anymore. But
This story is set in Elizabethan England, among the stationers and artists in London – the people that are able to see the fairy court when it comes to London to fight a battle that’s been long in the making. We have Alice, a widowed stationer – the only woman belonging to the guild. Her
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New windows = everything had to be pulled away from any wall in the house, so putting things back gave me a good opportunity to clean up the houseplants. (I also have three peace lilies to the right of the frame – they got a looksee as well, but no movement.) I filled a (small)
So I started this back in – checks notes – 2015. I had picked it up once in the meantime. Definitely pre-Covid. Maybe 2018? But having recently completed a few cross stitch projects, I felt like I needed to just get it done. And once I got back on the horse again, I knocked it
In this second book of this series, the focus shifts a bit from Princess Alyrra, to her attendant, Rae. Rae ended up in the capital city to see her cousin through her pregnancy, but her cousin and cousin’s husband quickly realize that Rae would make an excellent attendant to the new Princess. The princess ends
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I swore no more dahlias after I realized I no longer had a way to store them. (With the heat pump install last year, we now have to keep our back room’s door open to get heat in there. It used to just be the end of the line of our furnace circuit, which kept
So, remember that pile of mulch we got delivered the beginning of the week in April I ended up coming down with Covid? Yep, just finally spread the rest of it out. It’s a little lumpy, because the roots of the arborvitae next to it had started to grow into it. Oops! So I’ll have
