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Month: April 2024

Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2024 week 17

Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2024 week 17

See Previous | See Next Yay for rain!  And rain.  And some more rain.  The garden is blooming and getting a good drink (or dunking) this week. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years my mosaic looks like there’s snow everywhere, but it’s actually only in two panels.  The rest is the procession of white blossoms, interrupted this week – every year apparently – with some sort of pretty purple flower.  (Also, my bright tulips have started blooming; I can…

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SSCS 02: Installment 18 of 32

SSCS 02: Installment 18 of 32

How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 18 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… And what were the odds that by the time Mina got all of the stupid middle bits pinched out of the stupid scores of oyster bells she’d picked today, that the…

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Silk Window-Pane Pillow Covers

Silk Window-Pane Pillow Covers

Yay, I’ve made something pretty for my house, or rather two somethings.  Two pretty pillow covers for the pillows on my couch. (Actually, from the picture below you can see that I had the bases for three, but I’ve only got two of them complete right now and also only two couch pillows, so that third one might languish, unfinished for…a bit.  Not forever, though.  It was too very satisfying sewing with such yummy colors; I know I’ll want to…

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Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2024 week 16

Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2024 week 16

See Previous | See Next Well, this week it snowed again.  It was a pretty slushy sort of snow, that started dripping down and melting almost right away, but it was multiple inches, so the melting and dripping took a bit.  In the meantime, new things were still blooming, including the dastardly vinca (annoyingly pretty when it blooms), and the redbud, which does not like the cold, but it forging ahead none-the-less. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years shows…

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SSCS 02: Installment 17 of 32

SSCS 02: Installment 17 of 32

How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 17 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… This time Mina did look up, the words ‘oh, grow a bit of fucking stomach’ poised on her lips.  But Hedwin wasn’t even looking at her.  He was eyeing the tea…

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Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2024 week 15

Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2024 week 15

See Previous | See Next (sorry for the late posting – I was having login issues…) So what’s your preference?  Apple blossoms or plum blossoms?  Frothy and lush, or simple and elegant?  Because this seems to be the week for both!  Of my three sets of plum bushes, these are my earliest blooming (and much beloved by the bees).  I would say that it’s a tad early for the apple blossoms, but I’ve been seeing them blooming all over town,…

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SSCS 02: Installment 16 of 32

SSCS 02: Installment 16 of 32

How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 16 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… The roses glowed at her prettily as she got back to her shaky feet again, heart pounding in her ears. And the kraken, as far as she could tell, was simply…

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Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2024 week 14

Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2024 week 14

See Previous | See Next Check it out! I have dwarf irises and daffodils blooming!  …on the order of 2 of each, but still!  More flowers!  More flowers are coming! Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years really makes it look like this is the season of flowers.  (My actual garden may be a bit sparser yet than this would seem to advertise…) Looking back 2-4 weeks and 2-4 years shows the dreaded time of the camera malfunction when I…

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SSCS 02: Installment 15 of 32

SSCS 02: Installment 15 of 32

How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 15 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… (And never mind that when Hedwin ate flying fruit he really did bob around, like the steering mechanism for up and down was something well outside the realm of his control. …

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