We got our first real frost on Tuesday night, and all the leaves on the front maple dropped the following morning. The above is the before picture. (You can see the slight furrow where the BF tried out the mulching function on our mower and decided that was a big, fat nope.) So while we […]
This story is Pride and Prejudice with dragons. So take the basic social story of P&P and insert it into a world where there are a variety of supernatural creatures, some that work with humans, and some against. Merybourne Manor is far enough out in the country that affording to hire dragon riders is a
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So while we were away in the Cape last weekend, this happened. We got home with just enough light last Sunday for me to be able to see that the zinnias and dahlias look like they came out on the worse end of a fight. (My mother, who’s on the coast, has not actually had
I accidently started the Hidden Legacy series late, when the middle sister (Catalina) took over the action. Now, I managed to track down the older books as Kindle deals, so I’m back to the oldest sister, Nevada. In the world of these books, a serum was discovered in the 19th century that gave some people
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If you don’t know Tom Lennon, he played Lieutenant Jim Dangle on Reno 911, which should tell you what level of humor he’s going for here, except this is also a young reader’s level book, so it’s the fairly clean version of that level of humor. Fourteen year old Ronan Boyle is a intern with
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This is the In Dreams Shawl, by Susan Pandorf. I’m using Shibui Knits Lunar in the Noire colorway, and because I am crazy, I’m beading it. (Miyuki 8/o beads in black opaque) So far so good. It’s definitely fiddly enough that I don’t work on it if I’m not feeling totally on the ball that
Here are the two Punochka cross stitch patterns, completed. The second one is called Mushroom Umbrellas. I do have them both in the frames I was trying to fill, but the light this time of year is not conducive to taking good pictures of glass without ridiculous reflections. So someday I’ll get a picture once
I picked this up through Prime Reading because I’d enjoyed the Blacksmith Queen books, and these characters come into the end of the second book, so it’s the same world. And I definitely enjoyed it. Annwyl the Bloody is fighting for her life – her brother wants her dead, so that his claim to the
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So these are some vanilla socks (using the Basic 4ply Socks by Winwick Mum pattern) I started to use up the Koigu Painter’s Palette Merino I’ve been trying to figure out how to use. I got some Ontheround Nimble Sock in the Barred Owl and Narwhal colorways to go with it – they’re the same
So it turns out the secret to not impulse buying half the garden center at a 75% off perennial sale is to not get a cart. It also helps that we had Friday off, so got in before the hoards. (We had Friday off because we were supposed to go to the third rescheduling of
