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Day-Moon – Crow-Moon 2024 Look-Back

Day-Moon – Crow-Moon 2024 Look-Back

Well, the New Year is almost upon us, and so it’s time again that I’d like to look back at the year and see what I did with this blog and website in 2024.  I did the same thing last year (which you can see here if you’d like) and, because I am lazy, I think I’ll stick to the same format as last time.  Then, anyone who wants to do a side-by-side comparison of the two years (or am…

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2024 Writing Progress

2024 Writing Progress

Well, once again it is the time of year when I’d like to post up how my writing progress has gone for the year (and, if you’re curious, you can compare this year’s progress update with last year’s here). Progress updates are a funny thing.  They imply a need for quantifiable achievement, and it is definitely true that I do like to tabulate things, probably more than other people would consider healthy (hence, the bottom of this post with my…

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Roses Round-up 2024

Roses Round-up 2024

Alright!  It’s November, which means that (at least theoretically) all of the roses that were going to bloom in my garden have done so, and now I get to show them off.  If it sounds like I’m a kid showing off their Christmas presents, that’s because I do quite love my roses (definitely more than my gardening skills warrant).  These aren’t exactly prize-winning flowers, but I’m going to show them to you anyway! Before I begin, though, I have to…

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Irises Roundup 2024

Irises Roundup 2024

I may have lots and lots of roses (that bloom sometimes), but did you know I also have lots and lots of irises (that bloom sometimes)!  Like roses, irises are decadently beautiful, come in so many colors and varieties, and (traditionally) smell heavenly.  (Also like roses, many of the newer, frillier varieties don’t have very much scent, but so it goes.) The season for irises is shorter than for roses, and also earlier, which means that all of my irises…

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Day-Moon – Crow-Moon 2023 Look-back

Day-Moon – Crow-Moon 2023 Look-back

Happy Solstice! The 2024 new year is coming soon, and with it, I’ll be hitting the 1-year mark of having this blog.  Therefore, for the final, regular (non-weekly-garden) post of the year, I’d like to do a look-back of what I’ve done with this blog over the course of 2023.  When it comes to any sort of hobby, I’m definitely prone to, and enjoy, tabulating the various stuff associated with it.  And so, without further ado: General Accomplishments 1. I…

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2023 Writing Progress

2023 Writing Progress

Okay.  We’re closing in on the end of the year.  Which is the first year I’ve had this blog.  Which I started in large part because I wanted a place to be able to talk about my writing (and my garden).  You’ve seen my garden, so now, the least I can do is tell you how my writing’s gone this year. The short answer is: Not as great as I was hoping. But, I didn’t do nothing.  So, I’ll give…

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Roses Round-up 2023

Roses Round-up 2023

Now that we’ve reached the end of the season, I wanted to show you a round-up of all my pretty roses.  I can’t say that I’m an excellent rose gardener.  My primary gardening technique is to keep planting things until some things don’t die, and that’s pretty much the same approach I use with my roses.  This means 1) I have kind of a random assortment and 2) I count things as a success even if I get only two…

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A Brief History of Woodworking

A Brief History of Woodworking

So, I’ve mentioned that woodworking is one of the things on my long list of hobbies, and I thought I might show a little bit of what I’ve done.  I’m in the middle of another little woodworking project right now, which as usual I’ve made more complicated than it needs to be, so I can’t tell if it’ll be done soon (what I’d really like), or many months from now (the more usual turn of events).  But in the meantime,…

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My Brain is Like a Porcupine

My Brain is Like a Porcupine

In this post, I shall present to you two different (but also the same) representations of my brain.  Because you see, I have a lot of hobbies.  I’m pretty sure my husband has more – and neither of us is also including the fact that we have kids into the tally – but I do think it’s fair to say that I have a lot. Once, when I was younger and complaining to my mom that there were so many…

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