2023 Recap

 2023

Good

Travel, fun activities, new experiences,  and things I never had time for before.

• February visit from the Munich contingent
• June Munich Trip
• August visit of the Young One
  
• October Munich Trip
• Digitized Kids cassette tapes and got some doozies 
• Digitized some live DR.WA and D.W.I shows, 50/50 good/horrible
• Digitized the Basement Tape (Originals), tight band, but one mic recording does not great audio make
  
• Digitized some Parker attic tapes, some funny bits
  
• Fleet week Parade of Ships, nice morning out
• Spring Tulip picking at Holland Ridge Farms
• Fall Sunflower picking at Holland Ridge Farms
  
• Gingerbread Garage
• 2022 Mead is improving
• Made a 1/2 batch of Maple Mead, expected to improve
• tomato and zucchini yields were very good
  
• Saw meteors from the Geminid shower with friends
• Saw seals off the south shore
  
• Christmas Fair at the Deutschers Club 
• Attic Insulation
• Sumo tournaments
• Le Tour
• Keyport Fishery dinners
• Conference House Pavilion
   

Not So Good

Not looking hard for bad things, but these stuck out.

• Got bad COVID in August
• Dog died while we were sick with COVID
• Root Canals
• Fall Shoulder Impingement
• Continued lies and slow de-evolution back into the 1950s, which was not great for most people.
  

 

 

2023 Books Read

 Books, books, books

1. Do unto Others, Donna Leon (DL)
2. The Darkest Evening, Ann Cleeves
3. The Man who Died Twice, Richard Osman (RO)
   
4. The Long Call, Ann Cleeves (AC)
   
5. Knives (book about knives, a downstairs book)
6. Dr. No, Ian Flemming (IF)
7. The Cheltenham Square Murder, John Bude
8. Agatha Raisin Down the hatch M.C. Beaton
9. The Shooting at Chateau Rock Martin Walker (MW)
   
10. Monsieur Pamplemouse Secret Mission, Michael Bond (MB)
11. MP On the Spot, MB
12. The Coldest Case, MW
13. MP Aloft, MB
14. Goldfinger, IF
15. The Heron's Cry, AC
16. Travel is my Business, Raymond Chandler (RC)
    
17. Blade of Light, Andrea Calmeri
18. Playback, RC
19. Put on by Cunning, Ruth Rendell
20. Death of a Green Eyed Monster, M.C. Beaton
21. The Safety Net, AC
22. For Your Eyes Only, IF
23. The Rising Tide, AC
24. Pamplemouse Stands Firm, MB
25. The Sicilian Method, AC
26. The Killing Tide, AC
27. An Elderly Lady is up to no good, Helene Turster (HT)
    
28. The 12:30 from Croyden, Freeman Wills Croft
29. The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly, Margareta Magnusson
30. Swedish Death Cleaning, 
31. In the Shadow of Agatha Christie, multiple short stories of other female Christie cohort, a downstairs book
32. Happy the Land, Louise D. Rich
33. The Cook of the Halcyon, AC
34. An Elderly Lady must not be crossed, HT
35. Thunderball, IF
36. Secret Life of Cows, Rosamund Young
37. Road Rage, Ruth Rendell
38. The Bullet that Missed, RO
39. London Bridge is Falling Down, Christopher Fowler
40. Maigret and the Dead Girl, Georges Simeon (GS)
41. Maigret's Vacation, GS
42. Maigret at the Coroners, GS
43. Mr. Grapefruit on Location,  MB
44. Riccardino, AC
45. So Shall you Reap, DL
46. Chewing the Fat, Jay Rayner
47. Murder in Old Bombay, Nev March