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twistedchick ([personal profile] twistedchick) wrote2025-07-05 01:40 am
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neotoma ([personal profile] neotoma) wrote2025-06-28 05:34 pm
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Farmer's Market -- 28 June 2025 (Sickle Day, 10th of Harvest, Year 233)

2 quarts of yellow sweet cherries, 1 quart of blue berries, 1 pint of black raspberries, 1 pint of apricots, 1 lb of black beans, 1 lb popcorn, 1 strawberry lemonade, 1 quart of chocolate milk, bacon-gruyere wheel, almond croissant, and a lemon tart.

The fruit stand that I usually buy from saved me an apricot from their limited selection today -- the benefits of being friendly, remembering everyone's pronouns, and occasionally wearing one of my ace flag pins.
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twistedchick ([personal profile] twistedchick) wrote2025-06-26 01:30 am

aha!

I have been watching 'Elementary' the past week or so, especially during the heat dome of the last few days, and throughout the first three seasons Holmes' father is mentioned a few times but never shows up.

He finally does show up early in season 4, and from the first moment I saw him I kept thinking, 'where do I know this actor from'? His face, older and lined, was like many other actors, but that voice was singular.

So I looked him up.

He played Denethor in LOTR, the bad father who tried to burn his younger son to death and immolate himself on the fire as well -- the worst of the fathers in LOTR.

Tone down the madness, make him a high-level businessman with a finger in every government, and you have Sherlock's father. Pretty good casting.
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Beth H ([personal profile] bethbethbeth) wrote2025-06-22 10:42 am
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The Seventh of the Recced Book Reviews: The Lost Flock

On May 8th, I offered to read the first five books people recced - assuming they were available (preferably from the library) - and I'd give a short review [https://bethbethbeth.dreamwidth.org/701769.html].

This is the seventh recced book review.

It's been a long time since posting one of these (I had non-recced books to read!), but I just finished:

The Lost Flock (2023), by Jane Cooper (recced by marinarusalka on dreamwidth)

When this was recced to me, marinarusalka wrote, “I’m curious to see if a non-knitter will find it equally interesting.” Because here’s the thing. I know nothing about raising sheep, I’ve never knitted, I’ve never been to the Orkney Islands, and yet this is why I loved reading The Lost Flock. It’s the same reason I like reading science fiction and fantasy; learning about and getting immersed in a world you know nothing about is great.

So…if you want to know about Boreray sheep (a rare, primitive short-tailed breed) or how felting is done or how to spin without a wheel or about sails for Viking ships, this is your book.
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neotoma ([personal profile] neotoma) wrote2025-06-21 05:42 pm
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Farmer's Market -- 21 June 2025 (Onion Day, 3rd of Meadows, Year 233)

Brown sugar kettle corn, a quart of strawberries, a pint of blueberries, 2 pints of black raspberries, 3 cups of saskatoons, 2 quarts of sour cherries, a half-pint of black currants, almond croissant, bacon-gruyere wheel, lemon tart, and then I picked up my friend's CSA share as they and their spouse are out of town for the weekend and got: garlic scapes, bunching onions, sugar snap peas, mini romaine (broken romaine leaves in a plastic bag), red leaf lettuce, kale, and red beets.