Last 6 Highlander Recs

These aren't all my Highlander bookmarks: there are thirty, which you can find all of here (pre-filtered). Not all thoroughly annotated, however. I have finished going through the archive for real this time (I know I said it before, but I went back through the first few pages just to make sure after that).

Under the cut please find Fiction by Aria (the historical romance about Duncan one), Little Blessings by pennywashburne, The Bark of Dante by Taz (Pompeii exhibit at the museum), Decisions on the Road to Damascus by Chris Quinton, The Parting Glass by Kat Allison, and The Dread Pyrate Methos by Taz (historical epistolary humor).


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Baby rose plants and shopping for nibling

Wax ordered some roses. They're quite small still and don't look like this, but these are the illustrations from Viherpeukalot. We currently have one big white midsummer rosebush (a kind of tea rose apparently?) on one corner of the house and a pink rosebush beside the stoop which belonged to MIL and seemed to be sick last year. We haven't found out what was wrong with it, or done anything about it yet, but we talked about the yard and Wax said she would like more roses and I was like let's do that then!



So she ordered, L-R, a red climber (Rosa Flammentanz), a Persian Yellow rosebush (Rosa foetida 'Persian Yellow'), and a pink wild rosebush (Rosa majalis 'Tornedal'). They arrived late last Friday at the bus station but it was closed all weekend and we forgot to pick them up Monday, so they were sitting there in cardboard boxes for quite a while, but when we opened them yesterday afternoon they were fine. (Not dried out.) However, they're still sitting in their pots now because we have failed to buy potting soil. Wax wants a gigantic bag and we doubt our ability to carry this up the hill, plus Wax is having cramps which makes her doubt it even more. It's only one block of hill though (and another block over), so I think we can just take our wheelbarrow to the store with us. We have decided we cannot, after all, do without the car, but it isn't ready yet; it still has to have parts replaced, not to mention new tires.

Also on the subj. of the garden, I chatted with my family about it and I guess what we need is probably a weed whacker, or whatever its real name is, to remove excess long grasses that would otherwise tangle up our precious baby the electric lawnmower. We have not set up the boxes yet, because a. lack of potting soil but also b. the vegetable seedlings (zucchini, cucumber, pea) have not appeared on the shelves yet.

On the subj. of niece's 18th birthday, we went to the local jewelry and clock store that fixed our vintage formica kitchen clock and lucked out. The way we lucked out is this: it's the season for graduation gifts, so because dominant Finnish jewelry brand Kalevala Koru is a traditional graduation present, the traditional small cross and heart pendants were already absent (graduation is next week), but because the store is a local shop he had a selection of more unusual stuff that they've discontinued and we bought her this cool modernist Inger pendant, designed by Inger Lindholm for Kultateollisuus Viljanen in 1969 and reissued by Kalevala Koru (which later bought the company) in recent years.



(R: Tristana on the stoop this week. For symmetry.)