The garden is coming along nicely. I don’t think I’ve mentioned this on the blog, but our woodchuck problem is gone for the moment. Our chuck sadly did not make it when attempting to cross the main road nearby, and so far, no one seems to have moved in his territory. So we have a […]
What an atmospheric little book. A man lives in a huge house full of statues – the bottom floor is often flooded by the sea, and the top floor is the domain of rain and storms. There is one Other that sometimes visits there, but our protagonist is happy being mostly alone – he’s the
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Since I’m on a bit of a hat kick, I’ve started Unwind Knitwear’s Cellarium, using Swans Island Ikat Watercolors collection in the Indigo/Teal colorway. I’d initially pulled out the yarn to use for the charity knitting I’ve been doing, but those hats need to be mostly blue, and I think this yarn isn’t quite blue
Half of Dora’s soul was stolen by a fairy lord when she was young, taking most of her emotion with it. Now grown, she’s the companion of her cousin Vanessa, and it’s only because of Vanessa that she’s going to London for the season. Once there, she manages to catch the attention of the Lord
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Pattern: Swirl Hat by Mandie HarringtonYarn: Quince and Co Finch in the Bird’s Egg colorwayNeedles: Size 4 circs and DPNs These are my first Swirl hats in the Child (next to largest) size – I’ve done a ton of these as stash busters in the newborn size. It’s a great pattern – super easy.
We have peas! In woodchuck news, we left the house last Saturday, and turned onto the main road we’re just two houses in from, and there was a very dead woodchuck in the middle of the road. It had the right coloring to be ours, and we haven’t seen hide nor hair of any sort
This book is the story of Xingyin, the forbidden daughter of the moon goddess. She’s only starting to learn of her history when she’s forced to flee the moon to keep her mother safe. She ends up at the Celestial Emperor’s court, companion to the son of the very man that keeps her mother imprisoned
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This wasn’t bad for a free book. Fiona is the only daughter in a family of Irish cops in Toronto, when she finds out that her estranged grandparents in Ireland are actually druids, and she has their power. The family is nice, but so very stereotypical for Irish/North American cops. And the part in Ireland
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Pattern: Slable by Wooly Wormhead Yarn: Quince and Co Finch in the Bird’s Egg colorway Needles: Size 3 DPNs and Size 4 DPNs and circs This current reattempt of Slable went much better than about a month ago, because I didn’t skip the set up row. I don’t know how I managed to do that
Yesterday was a long day. I did two separate sessions of planting to get everything out. (It was sunny, and really warm, so I went as long as I could in the morning, and then went back out for evening.) Everything is in the ground, and I’ve done as much woodchuck prevention as I can
