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[mousme]

I'm taking Sharon Astyk's fall gardening class, since I figure learning how to extend my growing season can only be good for me. As a result, I ordered the books she recommended from Amazon, as well as a couple of others to make it all worthwhile. Because it was for a class, I even shelled out the extra cash for shipping rather than getting the "super-saver" shipping rates.

The result? One business day later and the books are in my hot little hands. The books I ordered ten days ago haven't even shipped yet. Maybe from now on I'll bite the bullet and pay for shipping, if it means I don't have to wait over a month each time for my books. Yes, I know, I'm not good when it comes to waiting.

Swag is as follows:

The Four Season Harvest (Eliot Coleman)
The Winter Harvest Handbook (Eliot Coleman)
Carrots Love Tomatoes (Louise Riotte)
The Self-Sufficient Life and How To Live It (John Seymour)

I've been hemming and hawing about that last one for something like three years now, because it was always stupidly expensive (upwards of $40 everywhere I looked), but this time it was on sale for pretty much half of that, so I pounced.

Wheeeeeeeee!

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Garden Books

[ankhorite.livejournal.com]

I've heard good things about the Riotte book.

Dunno if betterworldbooks.com works in Canadia, eh? I think it does, for $4 US. The books are used but cheap and speedy and part of the profit goes to a charity, part to the donor library, and part to the guys who run the place.

Hey! If you can get Sarah Palin to run for president of your country, I'll buy you four books of your choice!

I posted about our garden this morning. Pity hardly anything is blooming come Sept-Oct. Failure of planning on my part.

And congrats on the half-price pounce, Mightye Huntresse.

President? Not in *this* country!

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Our country cannot have a president, thanks be to every god in the sky (and extra praises for Her sparkly hooves and horn!).