march to-do list

House:

Strip table

Make sign for the house's name

Repaint kitchen doors

Garden

Turn compost and harvest loam

Amend east vegetable garden's soil

Amend north vegetable garden's soil

Remulch front gardens

Select lots of new plants for north front, side, and easement

Decide about grass

Get lots of vegetable pulp and coffee grounds (ongoing)

Errands

New houseplant to kill

Stepstool for kitchen

Lisaism

Paul's birthday, 5th

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim for book club, 7th

The Known World for book club, 31st

Reading:

Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

Zora Neal Hurston, those stories I haven't read yet

John Leonard, Lonesome Rangers: Homeless Minds, Promised Land

José Saramago, History of the Seige of Lisbon

José Saramago, Journey to Portugal

Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe (on-screen)

Exercise

Bike as long as it's over 25, and work on 20

Gym too

Walk three miles on bus days.

06:06

a passage to india

I liked Howards End and A Room with a View but I wonder if that was out of loyalty to the movies. I am hopeful that I liked them because E.M. Forster was much more comfortable and natural in his native environment than in India. The book was okay for a while, merely adequate, but entirely fell apart in the last quarter.

It reminded me too much of Kim for me to be fair to it, and Dr. Godpole very much reminded me of the lama. Mostly, it was just tedious.

Two disappointing books in a row.