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2024 Reads
- The Girl in Cabin 10 - Ruth Ware
- The Other Einstein- Marie Benedict (audio)
- The Frozen River - Ariel Lawhon
- The House is on Fire - Rachel Beanland
- The Rose Code - Kate Quinn
- Long Bright River - Liz Moore (audio)
- Getting Rid of Matthew - Jane Falon
- Winter Garden - Kristen Hannah (very good)
- The Unmaking of June Farrow - Adrienne Young
- Dear Sister- Michelle Horton (audio)
- The Last Love Note - Emma Grey
- Breaking Free - Rachel Jeffs
- The Women - Kristen Hannah
- The Alice Network- Kate Quinn
- Faking Friends- Jane Fallon (audio)
- The Liar’s Club - Mary Karr
- The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell - Robert Dugoni
- Once Upon a Town- The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen - Bob Greene
- Really Very Crunchy - Emily Morrow (audio)
- Until the Street Lights Come On- Ginny Yurich (audio)
- Don’t You Cry - Mary Kubica
- The Color of Water- James McBride (audio)
- Every Last Lie - Mary Kubica
- When the Lights go Out - Mary Kubica
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Just the Nicest Couple - Mary Kubica (audio)
- The Other Mrs. - Mary Kubica (audio)
- The Stolen Hours - Alan Eskens
- Between Two Kingdoms - Suleika Jaquan - great inspiration, cancer survivor
- Incredibly Bright Creatures- Shelby Van Pelt (audio)
2023 Reads 37
- The Orphans Tale - Pam Jenoff
- The Honey Bus - Meredith May (about bees- very good)
- Somebody’s Daughter- Ashley Ford
- This is How Your Marriage Ends - Matthew Fray
- Between Earth and Sky - Amanda Skenandore
- The Lost Girls of Willowbrook - Ellen Marie Wiseman ( based on true history/Willowbrook/ Geraldo Rivera
- The Comeback - Ella Bergman - fair
- Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver - very good
- Lessons in Chemistry- Bonnie Garmus (very good)
- The Nurse’s Assistant - Amanda Skenandore
- American Wolf - Nate Blakeslee (audio)
- The Undertaker’s Assistant - Amanda Skenandore
- The Middle Place - Kelly Corrigan
- Tell Me More - Kelly Corrigan
- The Couple at Table Six - Daniel Hurst (audio)
- The Diamond Eye - Kate Quinn
- The Good Girl - Mary Kubica
- The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCollough
- The Perfect Marriage- Jeneva Rose
- One Man's Wilderness - Sam Keith (audio) about Richard Proenneke, who built a cabin and lived in the Alaskan wilderness
- Local Woman Missing- Mary Kubica
- Verity - Colleen Hoover
- Home Again - Kristen Hannah
- Dopamine Nation- Anna Lembke (audio)
- Leper Spy- The Story of an Unlikely Hero of WW I I- Ben Montgomery
- One Italian Summer- Rebecca Serle
- The Nanny - Lana Ferguson- rank, stupid
- The Gallaghers of Ardmore Trilogy Book 1 Jewels of the Sun
- The Gallaghers of Ardmore Trilogy Book 2 Tears of the Moon
- Ugly Love - Colleen Hoover (audio)
- The Gallaghers of Ardmore Trilogy Book 3- Heart of the Sea
- The Wishing Game - Meg Shaffer
- Finding Me - Viola Davis (audio)
- The Things We do for Love - Kristin Hannah
- The House in the Pines - Anna Reyes
- The Lost Whale - Hannah Gold (audio)
- The Ride of her Life - Elizabeth Letts…..about Annie Wilkin’s horseback ride across America
2022 READS 42
- The Day the World Came to Town - 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland - Jim DeFede ( great)
- Brian’s Return - Gary Paulson (audio)
- Brian’s Hunt (audio) - Gary Paulsen
- Maid - Stephanie Land
- This Side of Wild - Gary Paulsen (audio)
- Nickel and Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich
- NightJohn - Gary Paulsen (audio)
- Sarny - Gary Paulsen (audio)
- Dog song - Gary Paulsen (audio)
- The Foxman - Gary Paulsen (audio)
- The Crossing - Gary Paulsen (audio)
- Chasing Fireflies- Charles Martin
- The Dead Don’t Dance - Charles Martin
- Maggie - Charles Martin
- Return to Manzanar - Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston - (audio)
- The Woodcutter- Reginald Hill (audio)
- The Little Island Secret- Emma Davies (audio)
- Heartbreak- Florence Williams
- The Book of Lost Names - Kristin Harmel
- Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker- Jennifer Chiaverini
- The Alchemist- Paul Coelho (audio)
- Tell the Wolves I'm Home - Carol Rifka Brunt (audio)
- The Sun Does Shine - Anthony Ray Hinton (audio)
- Spinning the Moon - Karen White (audio)
- Whispers of Goodbye - Karen White (audio) fair, romance novelesque
- The Heart’s Invisible Furies - John Boylne (very good)
- The Man From the Train - Bill James (audio) gruesome true serial murders
- Room - Emma Donoghue (audio)
- My Appalachian Trial I: Three Weddings and a Sabbatical- Steve Adams (audio)
- Caddy for Life , The Bruce Edwards Story- John Feinstein (audio)
- Walking with Spring - Earl Schaffer (audio)
- The Boy at the Top of the Mountain - John Boyne
- Becoming Duchess Goldblatt - Anonymous (audio)
- The Lincoln Highway- Amor Towles
- Sunburn - Laura Lippman (audio)
- House of Earth - Woody Guthrie (audio)
- Wish You Well- David Baldacci (audio)
- The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett (excellent)
- The Storyteller- Jodi Picoult (audio)
- The Mothers - Brit Bennett
- The Second Life of Mirielle West - Amanda Skenandore (historical novel about leprosy, very good)
- How Not to Die - Dr Michael Gregor MD (audio)
2021 Reads - 39 Total
- Robert B. Parker's Fool Me Twice - Michael Brandman, Jesse Stone # 11
- Robert B Parker"s Killing the Blues - Michael Brandman , Jesse Stone # 10
- Split Image - Robert B. Parker , Jesse Stone # 9
- Night and Day - Robert B. Parker , Jesse Stone #8
- Stranger in Paradise - Robert B. Parker , Jesse Stone # 7
- High Profile - Robert B. Parker, Jesse Stone #6
- Sea Change - Robert B. Parker , Jesse Stone #5
- Stone Cold - Robert B. Parker, Jesse Stone #4
- Death in Paradise - Robert B. Parker, Jessie Stone # 3
- Trouble in Paradise - Robert B. Parker, Jessie Stone # 2
- Night Passage - Robert B. Parker , Jessie Stone #1
- Bear - Claire Cameron - (audio), in the voice of a 5 yr. old
- Trespassing Across America - Ken Ilgunas (audio) - hiking the pipeline
- Running Barefoot - Amy Harmon (audio)
- Daylight (Atlee Pine #3) - David Baldacci
- The Beach Club - Elin Hildebrand
- 28 Summers - Elin Hilderbrand
- The Glass Hotel - Emily St John Mandel
- A Minute to Midnight (Atlee Pine #2) - David Baldacci
- The Four Winds - Kristin Hannah
- Long Road to Mercy (Atlee Pine #1) - David Baldacci
- The Charm Bracelet - Viola Shipman
- Same Kind of Different as Me - Ron Hall , Denver Moore
- Fifty in Reverse - Bill Flanagan
- Walk the Wire - David Baldacci (Amos Decker # 6)
- The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead
- The Brain Maker - Dr. David Perlmutter, MD (audio)
- Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro (fair)
- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford (audio and ipad) Japanese internment - good
- Manhattan Beach - Jennifer Eagan
- The Hatchet - Gary Paulsen (audio)
- Lead Me Home - Theresa Hupp - fair
- Truths I Never Told You - Kelly Rimmer (audio)
- I’ll be Your Blue Sky - Marisa de los Santos ( very good)
- The River - Gary Paulsen (audio)
- Wrapped in Rain - Charles Martin
- Silent Sisters - Ann Cusack (audio)
- When Crickets Cry - Charles Martin
- Brian’s Winter - Gary Paulson (audio)
2020 Reads
- 35 Total
- Last Christmas in Paris - Hazel Gaynor, Heather Webb
- Christmas on the Island - Jenny Colgan ( Scotland)
- Redemption - David Baldacci (Amos Decker # 5)
- On Mystic Lake - Kristin Hannah
- When the Lights go Out - Mary Kubica
- The Fallen - David Baldacci ( Amos Decker # 4)
- American Dirt - Jeanine Cummins (audio) - migrant journey
- The Christmas Train - David Baldacci
- The Fix (Amos Decker #3) - David Baldacci
- Wish You Well - David Baldacci
- One Summer - David Baldacci
- Angel Falls - Kristin Hannah
- The Other Mrs. - Mary Kubica
- Dead Wake - Erik Larson ( Lusitania)
- The Last Mile (Amos Decker #2 ) - David Baldacci
- Memory Man (Amos Decker #1) - David Baldacci
- Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng
- Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus - Dusti Bowling (audio)
- News of the World - Paulette Jiles
- Manhattan Beach - Jennifer Eagan
- And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer - Fredrik Backman (novella, dementia)
- Below Northern Lights - Ashlee Cowles (follow up Scotland adventure)
- Beaneath Wandering Stars - Ashlee Cowles (Camino story)
- The Deal of a Lifetime - Fredrik Backman (audio novella)
- The Woman in the Window - A J Finn. (audio)
- Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng (audio)
- One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow - Olivia Hawker
- The Unbreakable Child - Kim Michele Richardson
- Liars Bench - Kim Michele Richardson
- The Beekeeper of Alleppo - Christy Lefteri
- Before We Were Yours - Lisa Wingate
- The Subtle Art of not Giving a F**** - Mark Manson
- The One in a Million Boy - Monica Wood (audio)
- The Tattooist of Auschwitz - Heather Morris (audio)
- Tending Roses - Lisa Wingate
2019 Reads
- 36 Total
- The Giver of Stars - Jojo Moyes (very good)
- Bringing up Bebe - Pamela Druckerman
- Kindred - Octavia E. Butler. (audio)
- Educated - Tara Westover
- Still You - Jojo Moyes (audio)
- Cactus - Sarah Haywood
- After You - JoJo Moyes (audio)
- Me Before You - Jojo Moyes - great book!(audio)
- Bear town - Fredrik Backman
- My Grandmother Asked me to tell you she's Sorry - Fredrik Backman
- Leaving Time - Jodi Picoult (audio)
- The Girl With the Lower Back Tatoo - Amy Schumer
- A Spark of Light - Jodi Picoult
- Shine - Jodi Picoult
- Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult
- Sing You Home - Jodi Picoult
- Homefront - Kristin Hannah
- Fly Away - Kristin Hannah (sequel to Fierfly Lane)
- Girl Unbroken - Regina Calcaterra , Rosie Maloney ( continued story of little sis in Etched in Sand
- Glory Over Everything - Kathleen Grissom (audio)
- Summer Island - Kristin Hannah
- Small Great Things - Jodi Picoult (great book)
- Etched in Sand - Regina Calcaterra (audio)
- Distant Shores - Kristin Hannah
- The Girl They Left Behind - Roxxanne Veletzos
- Firefly Lane - Kristin Hannah
- Magic Hour - Kristin Hannah
- The Alice Network-Kate Quinn
- Between Sisters - Kristin Hannah
- The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
- Night Road - Kristin Hannah
- Comfort and Joy - Kristin Hannah
- The Atomic City Girls-Janet Beard
- Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens (audio)
- The Great Alone - Kristin Hannah (audio)
- Black Klansman - Ron Stallworth
Podcasts I Recommend
- Bear Brook
- Dirty John
- Dr. Death
- This is Love
- Up and Vanished
- Young House Love
- 5 Things
- Serial
- What Should I Read Next
- S-Town (mystery about a true murder)
2018 Reads
- 10 Total
- The Guernsey Lit. and Pot. Peel Pie Soc.- Shaffer, Barrows
- Whiter than Snow -Sandra Dallas
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
- One Thousand White Women - Jim Fergus
- The Slave Across the Street -Theresa Flores
- The Book of Polly - Kathy Hepinstall (audio)
- The Bride's House- Sandra Dallas
- Here if You Need Me- Kate Braestrup
- The Handmaid's Tale - Marrgeret Atwood (audio)
- Born to Run- Christopher McDougall
Summits
- Carpenter Peak (Roxborough SP) - 7166 ftl
- Chautauqua Mt. - 8,352 ft
- Mt. Herman - 9063 ft
- Sundance Mt. - 8,255 ft
- Mt. Muscoco - 8025 ft.
2017 Reads
- 7 Total
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- The secret to a happy life is not in getting what you want. It is in learning to want what you get.
- Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. Willie Nelson
- Sun is shining. Weather is sweet. Make you wanna move your dancing feet. - Bob Marley
- When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. ~Sophia Loren
- Opportunity is missed because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison
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2016 Reads - 7 Total
- When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi
2015 Reads - 13 Total
- The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein - audio
2014 Reads - 19 Total
- Half Broke Horses - Jeanette Walls
Old Latest Reads 2009-2013 - 81 Total
- The Bronze Horseman - Paullina Simons
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Rating:
Low Golf Score 2015
94
Favorite Hikes
- The Crag's
- Scarp's Ridge, Lower Loop, Upper Upper Loop, Mt. Crested Butte Summit
- Devils Tower, west of Sedalia
- Mt. Herman via Trail 716
- Ptarmagin Lake, Cottonwood Pass
- Anything in Crested Butte - Rustler's Gulch, Long Lake(there's a canoe up there), Judd Falls, etc
- The hike with my sis at the south end of the Appalachian Tr. up to an EcoLodge and back(Georgia)
- Castlewood Canyon
- Black Forest Park
- Fox Run Park
- Red Rock Canyon
- Punch Bowls (Queen's Canyon - Glen Eyrie)
- Seven Bridges/Jones Park/Bear Creek Canyon/Mt. Buckhorn Loop
- Waldo Canyon
- Spruce Mountain
- Palmer Lake Reservoirs
- Monument Rock/Monument Preserve
Walking Challenge -- The Proclaimers song is about walking 500 miles and 500 more.......
- 2012 - Close but not successful - ---
- Jan. - Dec. Total - 461.35 mi.
- Dec. Total - 13.8 mi.
Grandma's Adventure Book (she's 84!) or Dorthy's 'Bog' (from the movie 'Up')
- Caning a chair for Melanie
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About Me
- Arnie and Melanie
- Monument, Colorado
- Just trying to keep our brains active and keep track of things we like to do.
2010 Garden Updates
- The previously mentioned patty pan squash that were produced were about the size of a quarter! and only had a half dozen.
Garden Updates 2009
1. Started a composting box.
2. Adding triple mix dirt to garden and flower beds.
3. Still trying to get rid of voles.
4. Trying to plant things that voles won't eat.
5. Buy veggies at Farmer's market due to short growing season.
6. My seeds have come up - yeah!
7. Found some pattypan squash seeds that I need to get in the ground (childhood fav)
8. Harvested lettuce, using fresh mint, chives.
9.Hail Damage, hope everything survives.
10.The pattypan squash seeds sprouted, neversurvived due to major rain and hail.
11.Sunflowers are blooming!!!
12. My green beans are getting baby beans but the voles have discovered this too and my row of beans is slowly dissappearing from below.
13. Well, my row of beans has almost completely dissappeared.
Now the voles are starting to work on the row of sunflowers (which did quite well). Today I found a sunflower stalk sticking out of a vole hole..... it was too long for the vole to get the whole thing into his hole.
14. Did harvest 2 jalopenos and 1 onion. Something has been eating my peppers too.
15. 10/10/09 Temp. 18 degrees. Everything is covered in frost. Goodbye garden. Will try to harvest some flower seeds.
Brought a lot of seeds from Mom's flowers in Ohio.
Hollyhock, zinnia, black eyed susan, morning glory. Will see if they grow next yr. Will also give some to Val to see how they do in North Dakota.
2. Adding triple mix dirt to garden and flower beds.
3. Still trying to get rid of voles.
4. Trying to plant things that voles won't eat.
5. Buy veggies at Farmer's market due to short growing season.
6. My seeds have come up - yeah!
7. Found some pattypan squash seeds that I need to get in the ground (childhood fav)
8. Harvested lettuce, using fresh mint, chives.
9.Hail Damage, hope everything survives.
10.The pattypan squash seeds sprouted, neversurvived due to major rain and hail.
11.Sunflowers are blooming!!!
12. My green beans are getting baby beans but the voles have discovered this too and my row of beans is slowly dissappearing from below.
13. Well, my row of beans has almost completely dissappeared.
Now the voles are starting to work on the row of sunflowers (which did quite well). Today I found a sunflower stalk sticking out of a vole hole..... it was too long for the vole to get the whole thing into his hole.
14. Did harvest 2 jalopenos and 1 onion. Something has been eating my peppers too.
15. 10/10/09 Temp. 18 degrees. Everything is covered in frost. Goodbye garden. Will try to harvest some flower seeds.
Brought a lot of seeds from Mom's flowers in Ohio.
Hollyhock, zinnia, black eyed susan, morning glory. Will see if they grow next yr. Will also give some to Val to see how they do in North Dakota.
Voting
Hi Melanie! I love your blog and all the pics; Mom's adventure book! She looks pretty good and the quilt is so cute. I will talk to you soon. Love ya! Your sis.
ReplyDeleteWe had a nice Easter...I went to church, then prepared a meal for Nasser, Charlie, Andy and Moulouk. I made grilled beef tenderloin and chicken; Zireskh Polo (rice with red berries); yogurt with cucumbers; coconut macaroons, caramel flan. It was a nice day.
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