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Amy Cooke
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Crafter, environmental prof, Tar Heel, RPCV 🇰🇪. Wants to do most things the hard way.
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Today it is knitting. This one ia hard - I might just buy my next shawl/scarf. I’ve frogged it multiple times.

This weekend I’m crafting, cooking, and hiking / wildlife watching this weekend. Touching grass before the week slams into us and the weird sets in.
Beginnings of a lace scarf out of handspun/hand-dyed blue-green wool
January 21, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Sunday: went down east to see the migrating Tundra Swans and Snow geese at the Pocosin Lakes National wildlife Refuge. The white on the fields is mostly swan, geese in the air.
Harvested cornfield with many large white Tundra Swans on the ground and a mix of swans and geese in the air. There are hundreds of birds. Another picture of birds in the cornfield
January 20, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Saturday- made baguettes for the first time. My son ate most of them and actually complimented me on them on his own. He is 16, so I will take that as a win.
Two short baguettes, my first. I forgot to score them before baking, so they split weird but taste pretty good
January 20, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 15
Girl of the Limberlost, by Gene Stratton Porter. Picture is of the 1909 edition, and is pretty beat up - not only was it my Great-Aunt’s copy, she gave it to be as when I was about 10 and I read it multiple times. Cover is ran, with the title and author names in red capital letters and a line drawing of irises. I am afraid to read it again with 2024 eyes, but I really loved this book.
December 29, 2024 at 11:03 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 14
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare. Cover has a watercolor led image in dreary blues and greens of a woman in a back skirt and short cape standing in a meadow looking out over an inlet with dark house with two chimneys in the distance in the end of the water. It was a Newberry Award Winner.
December 28, 2024 at 10:23 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 13
Burn for Me by Ilona Andrews. This cover has a teal border that kind of looks like trees as night when you look up. In the center gap is a red carnation with flames in the middle. The original version had a dark heart shirtless guy wearing dog tags and a pretty blond in a tight black lace off the shoulder top standing in the middle of a crumbling Houston. Nevada (the blonde) would never wear that to work. This book has the single best book kiss.
December 28, 2024 at 1:05 AM
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It was the first of many. There are more now.
Brick fireplace with a blazing fire decorated for Christmas with stockings, a wide range of nutcrackers and a wreath above the mantel. It’s a bit much, actually.
December 27, 2024 at 9:43 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 12
Scruffy the Tugboat, a Little Golden Book. A toy tugboat (red with a blue smoke stack and big eyes) races down a tiny stream through a meadow filled with butterflies and cute wildlife.
December 27, 2024 at 3:16 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 11
Written in Red by Anne Bishop. Picture is a head and torso image of a young woman looking behind her with her peripheral vision. She is has dark short hair with red streaked side swept bangs and is wearing a dark gray hooded coat. She is in a winter woods with a ghostly wolf in the background. She is very nervous, but not about the wolf. Title text in red capital letters, author across the top in white.
December 23, 2024 at 11:21 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 10
Laura Ingalls Wilder’s “Little House in the Big Woods.” The cover has a picture of a family in a log cabin that bears no relation to the log cabins in magazines today - no rugs, plaid blankets or cozy furniture. In the foreground there is a brown haired child in a red nightgown gazing down at a doll in a blue dress. Behind her a blind child hangs on their father’s back and their mother, also in a nightgown, lifts an infant in the air as they all watch the child with the doll.
December 22, 2024 at 1:49 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 9
The Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis. This is the edition I bought in 1998. Large red medieval-core writing with sort of a Celtic inspired blue on black border and a grayed on white outline of a circular emblem behind the words. Christmas + time traveling field work.
December 20, 2024 at 6:58 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 8
Cover of _Eight Cousins_ by Louisa May Alcott. 7 boys in tartans surround a young girl, boys ages range from ~4 years old - mid-teens (I don’t remember exactly). The girl is about 13. This was a randomly chosen Alcott book - I read and loved all her books, even the obscure ones.
December 20, 2024 at 3:41 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 7
(How many days will I keep this up?
Dragon singer, by Anne McCaffrey, an earlier edition with a real late 70s vibe. I love the whole series (even the weird bits) but this specific one is my favorite. Yes, I was in band - it resonated, ok? Also, I am here for bubbly pies.
December 19, 2024 at 12:49 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 6
Wild Seed by Octavia Butler. I know everyone talks about the Parable books, but this is the first Butler I read.
December 17, 2024 at 11:17 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 5
The book is *Four Fish* by Paul Greenberg. I spontaneously lecture to people about this book every so often.
December 17, 2024 at 1:28 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 4
December 15, 2024 at 11:03 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 3?
December 15, 2024 at 2:55 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 2
December 13, 2024 at 10:03 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 1
December 13, 2024 at 1:38 AM