animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

a touch of dead

Wow did this book kind of suck. On a positive note, it only took a few days to read. It was a collection of short stories based on the Sookie Stackhouse series. The main problem was that I had a hard time reconciling the stories to the timelines in the …

feeling winey

The past couple of days have been a wine extravaganza around here. On Friday, we racked a red wine kit. It’s brand of wine kit that I hadn’t tried before (RJ Spagnols). It has a simplified process, which I like. Plus, the kit had dried grape skins included, which is …

commence gardening

Despite the fact that it’s supposed to snow this week, it’s time to start planting! Well, inside, anyway. I planted a bunch of pepper seeds this evening. I did 24 green bell peppers, 20 cubanelle, and 4 jalapeno. I’ll be sharing with the parents, of course. I haven’t scoped out …

new obsession

Last fall had us thinking about buying a new house. While we were able to talk ourselves out of that idea, we have not been able to talk ourselves out of owning some land. It is doubtful that we would find a land/house combination that we’d like so that leaves …

dead and gone

I guess I must have liked this book because I tore right through it. I even stayed up a little late last night to finish it–I only had a few pages left and just couldn’t put it down. So, I only have a book of short stories to read (which …