this little life of mine

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

•Grab your current read
•Open to a random page
•Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
•BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
•Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

 This week I've started reading The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. I've read some reviews from people who LOVED it and others from people who HATED it, so I guess I'm in for quite a ride! So far, in my opinion, it's quite good - mysterious and magical. And so different from what I've been reading lately, which has been full of creepiness and gore, that it's quite refreshing! But, who knows? It might change in an instant! Lord knows, it starts out distressing enough! Check out this one long teaser sentence (from page 14 of the nook version):

The man billed as Prospero the Enchanter receives a fair amount of correspondence via the theater office, but this is the first envelope addressed to him that contains a suicide note, and it is also the first to arrive carefully pinned ot the coat of a five-year-old girl.

For this week's You Capture: I believe they call this "The Blue Screen of Death":

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

•Grab your current read
•Open to a random page
•Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
•BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
•Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

 This week I've started Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake. I needed a bit of a break from zombies, and have moved on to ghosts! Here's my teasers from page 25 (0n my nook):

My eyes were on the scarp of apper. Anna. Even though I knew it was just one of Daisy's cheap tricks, her name in blood looked beautiful.

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

•Grab your current read
•Open to a random page
•Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
•BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
•Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

This week I'm reading Boneshaker by Cherie Priest, one of my friend Weetabix's book club selections. I've heard a lot of good things about this book, and have been curious about the whole steampunk genre, so I'm excited to finally be reading it. So far, it's really good and I'm enjoying it. I particularly enjoy that it's set in Seattle because I was just there with my friend DeeDee and can picture some of the locations mentioned in the book like the Underground, Pike's Market and the Smith Tower. Granted the Seattle I visited wasn't filled with the blight or wandering rotters, but I can still see it! Here's my teasers from page 177 on my nook:

Zeke's eyes went huge. "You're just going to ... throw me out of the ship?"

Well, we're down to just 2 bell peppers  1 bell pepper and 2 tomato plants in the garden now. I had to make that quick correction because right after I took these pictures, we decided that the one pepper on the right was just too sad looking and since it had no peppers on it, we pulled it out. The other one still has some potential peppers so we decided to leave it and see how it goes. The tomatoes are still producing, but I don't know how much longer they'll go since we've had a couple nights at or below freezing lately and more freezing temperatures are predicted this week.

I ended up getting a handful of tomatoes, but left the peppers to grow a bit more. Or not, depending on the weather. I do have one green and one red pepper left to use, then it'll just be flavourless store-bought for the next six months or so.  sob.

Next year we're planning to put just one tomato plant per Earthbox because none of our tomatoes got any bigger than cherry tomato-size despite one plant being a Big Boy Beef tomato or some such thing. They were supposed to be BIG anyway, and they weren't.  They were super juicy, sweet and delicious, hwoever, but we'd like bigger toms, please and thank you.

Farmers Market at the Ferry Building in San Francisco.

Today for lunch, Lola and I walked down to a new restaurant that just opened last week in downtown SLO called Urbane Cafe. We got the Rosemary Chicken sandwich and the Californian sandwich and shared them. Both were delicious, but I think the Rosemary Chicken was my favourite. Californian was really good, too, but it was the messier of the two. I can't wait to go back and try the Grilled Portobello Mushroom sandwich next!