choco_frosh just came by in the nor'easter which had better be amending our drought and dropped off the attractively Manly Wade Wellman-sounding T. Kingfisher's
What Stalks the Deep (2025) and a bagful of apples, including a Golden Russet and a Northern Spy. Digging into my book-stack was the best part of last night. I remain raggedly flat, but I really hope
this person whom
selkie brought to my attention gets their Leo Marks fic for Yuletide.
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They're delicious! The major one around here is the Roxbury Russet, but I have had Golden Russets before and they are crisp and strong and supposedly cooking apples if you don't mind them falling completely apart in the process, although I've always just eaten them. They really are gold-colored under the russeting. Northern Spies are incredibly fragrant with a flavor to match and I have no idea where the name comes from. I don't remember what else