With temperatures hitting the mid-80s this weekend, it truly felt like summer (at least until today, where the high is only supposed to reach 59). So with the Joy the Baker Summer Bucket List as my model, I felt inspired to make my own summer fun list.
- Restart my blog - after the Recipe Challenge finished up, I no longer had a project to blog about regularly and haven't posted anything since October 2015. Hopefully, my summer fun list will inspire me.
- Ride a century - I've signed up to ride in the Flying Wheels bike ride on June 10th. With the record-breaking rainfall this year, I have not prepared as much as I would have liked, so we'll see if I ride the full 100 miles that day or do one of the shorter routes. I've also signed up to do RSVP (Ride from Seattle to Vancouver (BC) & Party).
- Send postcards to friends on our sailing adventure.
- Make sangria (the first of many food & drink related items on the list)
- Swim in Green Lake
- Daily doodles/sketches - last year and the summer of 2014, I took some time to sketch regularly. I've never been the artistic one in the family, but when I actually take time out of my day to draw, I enjoy it - whether or not anyone will actually purchase my artwork.
- Kayak in a new place
- Pack a picnic lunch
- Write a short story
- Go crabbing
- Donate blood (okay, maybe not "fun", but now that I've been away from a malaria zone long enough, I'd like to get into the habit of doing this regularly)
- Grill oysters
- Go camping, which leads in to...
- Summit Mt. St. Helens for the second time
- Grill corn
- Pick berries
- Make freezer jam with the berry bounty
- Make pickles
- Ride Seattle's Great Wheel
- Squeeze my own lemonade
- Make a summer playlist (and listen to it all summer long)
- Make margaritas
- Bake a pie
- Swim in Coleman Pool
- Make my own sushi rolls
- Make my own poke bowl
- See an outdoor movie
- Go to a concert
- Read Moby Dick
- Sew a tote bag
- Sew a dress
- Knit a baby blanket
- Go whale watching (cheating a little, since we did this on Saturday, before I compiled the list)
Numbering the list makes it feel overly ambitious, but even if I only do half of the items on the list, I'll feel like I've made the most of the season.
2 comments:
I am so GLAD to see your post after your long haitus. I've been thinking of you and wondering how you are. I read Joy the Baker, too. So far have not made a summer bucket list, but have thjngsmon my calendar already. We share so many interests -- eating, coffee, walking, sketching and art. Let's get together at Zoka's and plan some outhing together.
Thanks Rosemary! It is nice to know that someone actually noticed both that I was gone and that I'd posted again. I was also inspired by your seasonal to-do lists - they seem like such a great way to savor life rather than just let it pass by. I'd love to get together soon and learn more about your summer plans.
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