Day off

I moved Monday's day off work to today, it has rained almost an inch overnight, everything is soggy. We're out of town for my brother's wedding next week, so I'd rather work on the nicest days to get a lot done.

Our replacement blueberry plants have arrived, the nursery didn't label the box as live plants this way up, so when we opened them, the plants were jumbled all over the place. Clearly the shippers had stacked them sideways, but how were they to know? I trimmed all the broken branches and watered them well.

Nick of Time Textiles had a sale and my mom requested me to fix her purse that I made. She's rougher on her purse than I anticipated, so I had her pick out some canvas fabric so I can make her another one that she'll use everyday. Plus, I just happened to get some more fabric so that should be arriving today.

Granola is in the oven.

I may do some chainsaw maintenance today, we need to get cutting trees for wood stove purposes too and I want to get the chainsaws in good condition.

Good news, I now have healthcare! The state is covering everything. Thank goodness. The bruise from the dog bite is starting to fade, it's now less swollen and only about two and a half inches across and has scabbed nicely.

I'm alternating between spinning and watching things and playing video games. Probably need to do some cleaning in my room

April Reading Roundup

Read

• The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar - absolutely wonderful sweet little book. Felt almost poetry like. Really nice. Library e-book
• The Orb of Cairado by Katherine Addison - mystery adventure book, enjoyed the exploration of the world of a relatively normal person. purchased e-book
• Emilie and the Hollow World by Martha Wells - YA vibes but the protag was slightly too old for the vibes I think. Not a bad little story though, absolutely bonkers worldbuilding stuff. Library -book
• The Gentlemen and his Vowsmith by Rebecca Ide - absolutely wonderful romance/magical murder mystery but I didn't realize the ebook had DRM so I could only read it on the publishers website. Absolutely infuriating since it didn't work well. Purchased e-book
• The Mirador by Katherine Addison - this book series is like a trainwreck, it's so weird but I couldn't stop reading. Third in the series. Library e-book

DNF

• The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu - Too much physics deep dives for me. Got about halfway through and it wasn't that interesting to me. Library e-book
• Home Grown Magic by Jamie Pacton - this is so tropey romance nonsense that I didn't even get through a quarter of it. library e-book

Re-read

• The Goblin Emperor - listen. My brain is obsessed. Purchased e-book
• The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison - library audiobook - first audiobook I got through while doing farmwork, even harder to track the names while listening but oh well. Enjoyed it though.
• All Systems Red by Martha Wells - library e-book