Two year project

Added later - we planted grass in this area, 2020.

This is where we started -

Tree circled in red is the tree at the corner of the lower raised bed. 

Now -

Classic book list in author order

Author Order

Achebe, Chinua

 Things Fall Apart  (1958) 

Adams, Richard:
Watership Down (1972)

Anderson, Sherwood:
Winesburg Ohio (1919)  

Austen, Jane:
Sense and Sensibility (1811)
Pride and Prejudice (1813)

Northanger Abbey (1817)

Bradbury, Ray:
Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

Bronte, Charlotte:
Jane Eyre (1847)

Bronte, Emilee:
Wuthering Heights (1847)

Buck, Pearl:
The Good Earth (1931)

Burgess, Anthony:
Clockwork Orange (1962)

Camus, Albert:
The Stranger (1942)

Capote, Truman

In Cold Blood (1966)

Card, Orson Scott:
Ender’s Game (1985)

Carroll, Lewis:
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
Through the Looking Glass (1871)

Cather, Willa:
My Antonia (1918)
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de:
Don Quixote (1605 and 1615)

Chopin, Kate:
The Awakening (1899)

Christie, Agatha:
Murder on the Orient Express (1934)

Collins, Wilkie

The Woman in White (1860)

Cooper, James Fenimore

The Last of the Mohicans (1826)

Conrad, Joseph:
Heart of Darkness (1902)

Lord Jim (1899-1900)

Cormier, Robert:
The Chocolate War: A Novel (1974)

Crane, Stephen:
The Red Badge of Courage (1895)

Craven, Margaret:
I Heard the Owl Call my Name (1960)

Defoe, Daniel: 
Robinson Crusoe (1719)

Moll Flanders (1722)

Dickens, Charles:
Bleak House (1852-1853)
Tale of Two Cities (1859)
Great Expectations (1860-1861)

Oliver Twist (1838)
Hard Times (1854)

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor:
Crime and Punishment (1866)
Brothers Karamazov (1879-1880)Notes from the Underground (1864)

Doyle, Arthur Conan:
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901-1902)

Dreiser, Theodore:
An American Tragedy (1925)Sister Carrie (1900)

Eliot, George

The Mill on the Floss (1860)

Ellison, Ralph:
Invisible Man (1952)

Faulkner, William

The Sound and the Fury (1929)

As I Lay Dying (1930)

Fitzgerald, F. Scott:
This Side of Paradise (1920)
The Great Gatsby (1925)
Tender is the Night (1934)


Forster, E.M.:
A Room With a View (1908)
Howards End (1910)
A Passage to India (1924)

Frank, Anne:
The Diary of a Young Girl (1947)

Golding, William:
Lord of the Flies (1954)

Hammett, Dashiell:
Maltese Falcon (1940)

Hardy, Thomas:
Tess of D’Urbervilles (1891)

Jude the Obscure (1895)

Far from the Maddening Crowd (1874)

The Return of the Native (1878)

Hawthorne, Nathaniel:
The Scarlet Letter (1850)

The House of the Seven Gables (1851)

Heller, Joseph:
Catch-22 (1961)

Hemingway, Ernest:
The Sun Also Rises (1926)
A Farewell to Arms (1929)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
Old Man and the Sea (1952)

Hersey, Jophn 

Hiroshima (1946)

Hesse, Hermann:
Siddhartha (1922)

Hugo, Victor

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831)

Hurston, Zora Neal:
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)

Huxley, Aldous:
Brave New World (1931)

James, Henry

The Turn of the Screw (1898)

Joyce, James

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)

Kerouac, Jack:
On the Road (1957)


Kesey, Ken:
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962)

Kipling, Rudyard

Captains Courageous (1897)

Kim (1900-1901)

Knowles, John:
A Separate Peace (1959)

Lawrence, D.H.:
Sons and Lovers (1913)
Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)

Women in Love (1920)

Le Carre, John

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974)

Lee, Harper:
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)

Leroux , Gaston

The Phantom of the Opera (1909-1910)

Lewis, Sinclair:
Main Street (1920)
Babbitt (1922)
Arrowsmith (1925)

London, Jack:
The Call of the Wild (1903)
Sea Wolf (1904)

Machiavelli, Niccolo

The Prince (1513)

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia:
Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)

One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)

Maugham, Somerset:
Of Human Bondage (1915)
The Razor’s Edge (1944)

Maurier, Daphne Du:
Rebecca (1938)

McCullers, Carson:
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940)
The Member of the Wedding (1946)

McEwan, Ian
Atonement (2001)

Mellville, Herman:
Moby Dick (1851)


Morrison, Toni:
Beloved (1987)

Nabokov, Vladimir:
Lolita (1955)

Orczy, Baroness Emmuska:
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905)

Orwell, George:
Animal Farm (1945)
1984 (1949)

Paton, Alan:
Cry the Beloved Country (1948)

Plath, Sylvia

The Bell Jar (1963)

Potok, Chaim

My Name is Asher Lev (1972)

Rand, Ayn

Anthem (1938)

Remarque, Erich Maria

All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)

Salinger, J.D.:
Catcher in the Rye (1951)

Scott, Sir Wallace:
Ivanhoe (1819)

Shelley, Mary:
Frankenstein (1818)

Sinclair, Upton:
The Jungle(1906)

Solzhenitsyn:
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)

Spark,Muriel:
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)

Steinbeck, John:
Red Pony (1937)
Of Mice and Men (1937)
Grapes of Wrath (1939)
East of Eden (1952)

Stevenson, Robert Louis:
Treasure Island (1883)
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)

Kidnapped (1893)

Stoker, Bram

Dracula (1897)

Stowe, Harriet Beecher:
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) 

Styron, William:
Sophie’s Choice (1979)

Swift, Jonathon:
Gullivers Travels (1735)

Thoreau, Henry David

Walden (1854)

Tocqueville,  Alexis de

 Democracy in America (1835) abridged 

Twain, Mark:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894)

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)

Verne, Jules

Around the World in 80 Days (1873) 

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1870)

Voltaire

Candide (1759) 

Vonnegut, Kurt:
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)

Cat's Cradle (1963)

Walker, Alice:
The Color Purple (1982)

Waugh, Evelyn:
Brideshead Revisited (1945)

Wells, H.G.:
Time Machine (1895)

Wharton, Edith:
Ethan Frome (1911)
The Age of Innocence (1920)

Wilde, Oscar:
The Picture of Dorian Grey (1891)

Wilder, Thorton:
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927) 

Wolfe, Thomas:
Look Homeward Angel (1929)

Wolfe, Virginia

To the Lighthouse (1927)

Wright, Richard:
Native Son (1940)

Classic book list in title order

TITLE ORDER

 (I have read books marked with an *)

*1984 (1949) by George Orwell

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1870) by Jules Verne

*The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) by Mark Twain

*The Age of Innocence (1920) by Edith Wharton

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1871) by Lewis Carroll

*All Quiet on the Western Front (1929) by Erich Maria Remarque

An American Tragedy (1925) by Theodore Dreiser

*Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell

Anthem (1938) by Ayn Rand

*Around the World in 80 Days (1873) by Jules Verne

Arrowsmith (1925) by Sinclair Lewis

As I Lay Dying (1930) by William Faulkner

*Atonement (2001) by Ian McEwan 

*The Awakening (1899) by Kate Chopin

Babbitt (1922) by Sinclair Lewis

The Bell Jar (1963) by Sylvia Plath

Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison

*Bleak House (1852-1853) by Charles Dickens

*Brave New World (1931) by Aldous Huxley

*Brideshead Revisited (1945) by Evelyn Waugh

*Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927) by Thorton Wilder

*The Brothers Karamazov (1879-1880) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

*The Call of the Wild (1903) by Jack London

Candide (1759) by Voltaire

Captains Courageous (1897) by Rudyard Kipling

*Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller

Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J.D. Salinger

Cat's Cradle (1963) by Kurt Vonnegut

*The Chocolate War: A Novel (1974) by Robert Cormier

Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess

*A Color Purple (1982) by Alice Walker

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court  (1889) by Mark Twain

*Crime and Punishment (1866) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

*Cry the Beloved Country (1948) by Alan Paton

Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) by Willa Cather

Democracy in America (1835) abridged by Alexis de Tocqueville

*The Diary of a Young Girl (1947) by Anne Frank

*Don Quixote (1605 and 1615) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

*Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker

*East of Eden (952) by John Steinbeck

*Ender’s Game (1985) by Orson Scott Card

*Ethan Frome (1911) by Edith Wharton

Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury

*A Farewell to Arms (1929) by Ernest Hemingway

*Far from the Maddening Crowd (1874) by Thomas Hardy

*For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway

*Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley

*The Good Earth (1931) Pearl Buck

*Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck

*Great Expectations (1860-1861) by Charles Dickens

*The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald

*Gulliver's Travels (1735) by Jonathon Swift

Hard Times (1854) by Charles Dickens

*The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) by Carson McCullers

*Heart of Darkness (1902) by Joseph Conrad

Hiroshima (1946) by John Hersey

*The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901-1902) by Arthur Conan Doyle

*The House of the Seven Gables (1851) by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Howards End (1910) by E.M. Forster

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) by Victor Hugo

I Heard the Owl Call my Name (1960) by Margaret Craven

*In Cold Blood (1966) by Truman Capote

Invisible Man (1952) by Ralph Ellison

Ivanhoe (1819) by Sir Wallace Scott

*Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Bronte

Jude the Obscure (1895) by Thomas Hardy

The Jungle(1906) by Upton Sinclair

*Kidnapped (1893) by Robert Louis Stevenson

*Kim (1900-1901) by Rudyard Kipling

Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) by D H Lawrence

The Last of the Mohicans (1826) James Fenimore Cooper

*Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov

Look Homeward Angel (1929) by Thomas Wolfe

Lord Jim (1899-1900) by Joseph Conrad

*Lord of the Flies (1954) by William Golding

Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Main Street (1920) by Sinclair Lewis

*Maltese Falcon (1940) by Dashiell Hammett

*The Member of the Wedding (1946) by Carson McCullers

The Mill on the Floss (1860) by George Eliot

*Moby Dick (1851) by Herman Mellville

*Moll Flanders (1722) by Daniel Defoe

*Murder on the Orient Express (1934) by Agatha Christie

*My Antonia (1918) by Willa Cather

My Name is Asher Lev (1972) by Chaim Potok

Native Son (1940) by Richard Wright

*Northanger Abbey (1817) by Jane Austen

Notes from the Underground (1864) by Fyodor Dostoeavsky

Of Human Bondage (1915) by Somerset Maugham

*Of Mice and Men (1937) by John Steinbeck

*Old Man and the Sea (1952) by Ernest Hemingway

*Oliver Twist (1838) by Charles Dickens

On the Road (1957) by Jack Kerouac

*One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) by Solzhenitsyn

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962) by Ken Kesey

*One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

*A Passage to India (1924) by E.M. Forster

The Phantom of the Opera (1909-1910) by Gaston Leroux

*The Picture of Dorian Grey (1891) by Oscar Wilde

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) by James Joyce 

*Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) by Muriel Spark

The Prince (1513) by Machiavelli

*Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894) by Mark Twain

*The Razor’s Edge (1944) by Somerset Maugham

*Rebecca (1938) by Daphne Du Maurier

*Red Badge of Courage (1895) by Stephen Crane

*Red Pony (1937) by John Steinbeck

The Return of the Native (1878) by Thomas Hardy

*Robinson Crusoe (1719) by Daniel Defoe

*A Room With a View (1908) by E.M. Forster

*The Scarlet Letter (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) by Baroness Emmuska Orczy

Sea Wolf (1904) by Jack London

*Sense and Sensibility (1811) by Jane Austen

*A Separate Peace (1959) by John Knowles

Siddhartha (1922) by Hermann Hesse

Sister Carrie (1900) by Theodore Dreiser

Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut

*Sons and Lovers (1913) by D.H. Lawrence

*Sophie’s Choice (1979) by William Styron

The Sound and the Fury (1929) by William Faulkner

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) by Robert Luis Stevenson

*The Stranger (1942) by Albert Camus

*The Sun Also Rises (1926) by Ernest Hemingway

*Tale of Two Cities (1859) by Charles Dickens

*Tender is the Night (1934) by F. Scott Fitzgerald

*Tess of D’Urbervilles (1891) by Thomas Hardy

*Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) by Zora Neal Hurston

*Things Fall Apart  (1958) by Chinua Achebe

*This Side of Paradise (1920) by F Scott Firzgerald

*Time Machine (1895) by H.G. Wells

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974) by John le Carre

*To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee

*To the Lighthouse (1927) by Virginia Woolf 

*Treasure Island (1883) by Robert Lewis Stevenson

*The Turn of the Screw (1898) by Henry James

*Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Walden (1854)  by Henry David Thoreau

*Watership Down (1972) by Richard Adams

*Winesburg Ohio (1919) by Sherwood Anderson

*The Woman in White (1860) by Wilkie Collins

Women in Love (1920) by D. H. Lawrence

*Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emilee Bronte

We love him

Isn’t it interesting, which things are difficult to find?

I had to drive quite a ways to get this.

We have had a traditional/one wheeled barrow for many years. Like maybe 30 years.

It caused me to fall twice last year. I thought it was me, but it nearly took middle down too. And my husband struggled with it. I sold it.

We got the above as a much needed replacement. Two front wheels keep it sure footed.. Super sturdy.  And the tires are hard/no air needed. It is a really great wheelbarrow.

It was expensive, but worth every penny.  I use it constantly. And at the rate I was going, one day a fall was going to cause an injury.

I had a heck of a time finding one in stock. We had to drive over a hour to get it. But it felt good to get out and Lowe’s has curbeside available.

First monarch of the year in my milkweed!

Enjoyed hugely, listened to the whole book in one day

Prime, decided to watch on Prime, rather than buy on audible

Here is the second one, which includes Bosch also

Audible

I finished
Scott Turow
Kindle County Series
Presumed Innocent (Kindle County #1), 1987
The Burden of Proof (Kindle County #2), 1990
Pleading Guilty (Kindle County #3), 1993
The Laws of our Fathers (Kindle County #4), 1996
Personal Injuries (Kindle County #5), 1999
Reversible Errors (Kindle County #6), 2002
Limitations (Kindle County #7), 2006
Innocent (Kindle County #8), 2010
Identical (Kindle County #9), 2013
Testimony (Kindle County #10), 2017
The Last Trial (Kindle County #11), 2020

I skipped Presumed Innocent, because I remembered it.

I wish had not, because characters repeat and I did not remember all the characters.
So when I finished, I went back and relistened to it. But I wish I had done it in order.

Now I am listening to

I have not seen the movie. I am enjoying the book. There is a sequel, I will do it next.

Peanut bird feeder

Wild birds Unlimited is my go to company for bird supplies. (Great gift ideas.)

Higher prices, much better quality, I have a feeder from them that is over 20 years old.

We added four new (speciality) feeders and a third birdbath to our bird area in the back this year.

A hummingbird, oriole, core/solid and the peanut feeder (above).

The peanut feeder empties shockingly quickly. We thought it was squirrels, but it is the birds. I need to find bigger peanuts that are harder to remove. They are natural/in shell with no salt.

Watching

Very interesting. I am watching on Acorn, but I think it is on Prime too.

I have started pulling all the dry goods and letting them “set”. They still get handled carefully/washed/repackaged. But another day.

That (below) is a large table in our garage. You can see all my “for sale” stuff (on other tables) behind the Grocery table.

After I pulled the dry goods, I still had this much (below)  left that had to be handled immediately. The paper sacks hold freezer goods. The rest is refrigerator and produce. All of that gets washed in a tub of soapy Dawn water in the sink.

I do curbside Groceries once a week. And it is tiring.

Mr Whicher

If you like BBC, these may be new to you.

I just found them on Amazon Prime.

Starting on the first one today.

Another planter

Last year we turned an old bench into a planter. The bench was falling apart. It needed a redo or it was headed for the garbage.

This year we turned an old flower box into a planter.

The house has to be resided in that area. The flower box was no longer visit or from the street, a hedge grew.

And I wanted a “flower box” look on the other side of the house.

Very pleased.