Coffee Admirers is done. I definitely still hate French knots. (And I totally cheated and used Colonial knots.) Back stitching wasn’t too bad, though I did take a break in the middle of it to power through some knitting, because it is definitely more boring than the cross stitch sections. I guess this spells the […]
The Great Libraries store the grimoires of Austermeer’s sorcerers. It’s an interesting dynamic – the librarians fear the power of the sorcerers, but everyone knows that it’s the sorcerers’ magic that keeps their country safe from enemies. Only orphans are recruited to be librarians, but even they usually only enter the service of the Libraries
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Guess who’s back in the yard? I had wanted to plant peas last week, but it was way too wet. BF had seen our little buddy around earlier, but I finally saw him yesterday, so plans had to be made to keep the peas safe. I already had the support up from my prep-work last
This was a nice interlude – we go back in time to when Pen had recently been forced to leave Martinsbridge. He’s at his first assignment after his disastrous try at the healing arts, and is currently serving as a court sorcerer. It’s in this capacity that he’s called to the local healing center, for
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Pattern: Northlights by Clare Hutchison Yarn: Sundara Sock in the Water Studies #35 colorway Needles: Size 4 circs and DPNs I managed to get a 21″ and 19″ hat out of this skein of sock yarn, and I should have enough left for a baby hat for the stash. Good pattern – easy, but
I’m really enjoying this series, which is about the monk Chih, who travels through a land much like China, recording tales to bring back to their monastery. Chih hires one of the mammoth scouts to take them through a mountain pass – while on their journey, they encounter three hungry tigers. Who can also talk.
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I’m really enjoying these books. And part of what I love is that they’re all different. We travel through several different worlds in this book, culminating in one of the Nonsense worlds – in this case, it’s all made of candy and baked goods. And I distinctly remember having a moment where I thought something
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This was an interesting book about how rivers have shaped government and policy in America, from colonial times to the present. I’ve aware of more modern effects of rivers on policy (the pollution on the rivers in my state, as well as dam removal, are both things I’ve grown up aware of). What I found
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For the second year in a row, the Grammie begonia is blooming. It only bloomed once in the seventeen years we lived at the apartment. I guess it really likes this window. One of the bad things about working from home is I’ve gotten really bad about turning on my personal computer, so I’ve fallen
Alice Proserpine has escaped the Hinterland, but she’s still drawn to the other Tales that escaped as well. When some of them are murdered, it looks very much like it could have been her. She has to find the real murderer, and also figure out what happened to Ellery Finch, who may or may not
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