A mere year and a half after I started, I have finished chart #1 of the full coverage Boreas cross stitch painting reproduction. (This is a couple trees on the horizon, since you really can’t tell without context.) It took me a while to finally get the right set up to hold this – it’s […]
Interesting magical world – it’s based on Jewish magical mythology, where magic was brought in based on heritage (shocker – there are a lot more people of Jewish decent than you’d think), but it’s an all or nothing thing. Ashira Cohen always thought she as mundane, even having a Nefesh father. She’s made a life
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I’ve tagged this DIY, but it’s really not. We paid someone to replace the old, disgusting wall to wall carpets in our three bedrooms. The new floors are glorious. Due to everything else going on, we are nowhere near getting the rooms put back together (there will be some DIY involved – we have to
I ended up doing most of my planting over my lunch breaks in early June. These pictures are from June 12, when I was finally done. I’m still trying to find the time to get the greenhouse broken down and put away, but at least all the plants are in the ground.
These stories are about a man ‘who has many names but only a single nature’ and his travels through a mythical land just outside of regular time. He’s been tasked with getting rid of chaos. I think this is most easily compared to the Jack Vance’s Dying Earth stories. There’s a similar vibe to them,
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I can’t win with hardening off. Turns out this weekend would have been great for planting, but it was so cool, I hadn’t put things outside yet. (Plus we were going away, so it just seemed safer to wait for next weekend.) I did pivot soon enough to get the Swiss chard outside, and I
Aelis has been drafted straight out of training to be the warden of Lone Pine, a town out on the frontier. It’s a far cry from the city where she grew up, and earning the trust of the people of Lone Pine proves harder than she could have imagined. I liked this book, but it
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Tis the season for wandering around garden centers. I took Friday off to do my traditional wander around Mackworth/Gilsland (trout lilies were sadly gone by, but as you can see from previous entries, it was still a great walk). I went to Broadway Gardens that afternoon, which was only a touch below crazy weekend levels
It worked! As of Thursday, all of the tubers I over wintered in the garage had visible sprouts! I do have to acknowledge that this was a very mild winter. I came across a post online with people are far north as Minnesota noting that they have dahlia sprouts in their gardens from leftover tubers
This trilogy is an interesting take on Pride and Prejudice. It’s really only the first book that follows Austen’s story. For the next two, the story is just about how those characters act in this fantasy world. What I find interesting is how many people complained because it went dark. I’ll be honest – I
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