Or rather, how I did
with my summer bucket list. I’ll have to put up a fall list sometime soon.
·
Go
peach/apple/raspberry/blackberry picking
Never
made it! Hoping to pick some apples this fall, but we’ll see.
·
Take
an impromptu trip to the beach
Jay
and I had a day at the beach in August that was more or less last minute.
·
Visit
a farmers market
I
picked up my book club noms last Friday at the Amish Farmers Market in Easton,
so yeah, I can cross that one off.
·
Go
crabbing
Never
did go crabbing. If there was a free weekend, it was spent at home cleaning or
vegging out.
·
Learn
how to SCUBA dive
I
learned! And this coming weekend we will be doing our checkout dives.
·
Send
Aunt Nancy & Uncle Darryl a Thank You basket
I
did this… they loved it!
·
Send
Sally & Chris (our NZ people) a Thank You basket
We
sent it, but I haven’t heard from them. I should probably send them an email.
·
Find
frames for koala and lorikeet photos – then hang them
We
have these framed and on display, but haven’t hung them yet. I would still call
this a success.
·
Clean
up front garden and plant perennials
The
front garden has been cleaned up, but I never got around to planting. Hopefully
I can do that in early spring.
·
Re-upholster
dining room chairs
We
still haven’t done this. At this point I think we’re going to need new padding
for the chairs too.
·
Have
a picnic at Martinak
Never
got around to doing this.
·
Make
marshmallows from scratch (stole this from TTG – been wanting to do this for
awhile)
This
was a fun project! If I didn’t have such a busy week planned, I would make
another batch for next weekend.
·
Have
rooster for dinner
We
haven’t eaten our roos yet, but Jay and MacGuyver dealt with the messy part on Friday while I was at Book Club. Laura and
I do Book Club, the boys do Fight Club. It was pretty traumatic for poor Jay.
And me. And I wasn’t even there. Also, my darling husband killed one of the
wrong roosters. So that was sad. We had too many and something needed to be
done. Our hens were starting to get pretty banged up from having too many roos. There were missing and broken feathers, raw skin and even some wounds.
We will probably take care of the last rooster at some point this
winter and take an Easter Egger or Marans roo that someone is getting rid of.
·
Do
the adult ropes challenge course at Tuckahoe
Did
this!
·
Go
kayaking
Did
this before the ropes course.
·
Climb
the rock wall at the Y
Never
got a chance to do this.
·
Swim
1000 yards
I
came so close to completing this. I made it to 900 yards. One time I was at 800 yards when I ran out of
time and would have been late to an appointment. The other time, I was
unnerved by an overzealous lifeguard. I was the only person in the pool and the
guy looked like he was going to jump in and save me at any moment. It was
disconcerting and it made me nervous.
·
Host
a dinner party
I
had my girlfriend Tiffany over for dinner last Thursday… so yeah, it was a
dinner party. Sure.
·
Come
up with a date, menu & budget for yearly fall party
We’ve
settled on a date. Except that it’s the same weekend as Punkin Chunkin. We’ll
see, I guess. This year we’re going to scale it back a bit, including picking
an ending time (hopefully people will be a little more responsible with an end
time). Last year things got a little out of hand when one jackass brought
fireworks and then another one decided that it would be fun to throw the
fireworks into the fire. Ugh. We are also scaling back on the food this year…
there is always too much and having such a large variety cuts into the budget.
·
Make
a plan for the backyard
We
have a tentative plan, but every time we go to Home Depot or Lowes, we’re
hoping to run into Ahmed from Yard Crashers. Mainly, the plans include a deck off the back of the house, a shop/woodworking
studio for Jay (with an attached entertaining area in the front), plus a patio
surrounding a fire pit.
·
Build
a new fire pit
We
need to have a finalized plan on where it will go before we build it!
·
Finish
fencing backyard
Pretty
close to this. There are two more panels of privacy fence that need to go up
and we need to attach one last section of picket fence.
·
Go
fishing
I
never got to do this.
·
Design
egg cartons to sell/giveaway eggs
Completed!
And I’ve even sold some eggs.
· Complete
two weeks of Couch25K (I’m aiming low)
Completed and ran my first 5k.
I would say that I was pretty
successful overall. Now I need to plan my Fall Bucket List. I’m thinking that
it should have fewer items on the list!
How did you do on your Summer Bucket List?
Our house is not in horrible shape. Just over a week ago it was spotlessly clean with every single thing in its place as we were in house showing mode. But it is impossible (at least for me) to live that way on a daily basis. Since we are going to be moving out in less than two months, it would be nice to keep the house in good shape, so we have less cleaning to do when it is time to move out.
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