2016 To Do List

Looking back at my 2015 To Do List, I was able to scratch off two things. Dutch oven cooking and Korean food cooking. Two doesn't seem like a lot but this isn't a resolution list, just a fun list so no worries. Just roll the other eight over to 2016.

2015 To Do List

1. make a quilt

2. bake the perfect whoopie pie

3. start an etsy shop

4. make paper

5. learn flower arranging

6. camping with dutch oven cooking

7. more Korean cooking

8. more leather crafts

9. make to go breakfast bites - homemade poptarts, muffins & granola bars

10. take a CPR class

2016 To Do List

1. make a quilt

2. bake the perfect whoopie pie

3. start an etsy shop

4. make paper

5. learn flower arranging

6. more leather crafts

7. make to go breakfast bites - homemade poptarts, muffins & granola bars

8. take a CPR class

9. play more records

10. finish a big puzzle

Looking back at 2015

I wasn't going to do this again, but I really enjoyed looking at the one for 2014 so I'm squeezing it in before January is over.

Survived the coldest winter ever. In the history of man, I'm pretty sure.

Completed the kitchen renovation.

Made some new Korean dishes.

Fed the birds at Mendon Park.

Spun steel wool for some cool photos.

Went camping.

Flew the drone over sunflower fields and waterfalls.

Made our own yogurt.

Went snowshoeing.

Saw the ice volcano.

Got a crepe maker. Best purchase ever.

Annual maple weekend.

Saw Guster and Nate Russe in concert.

Said goodby to Jim's Restaurant.

Went to Niagara Falls.

Watched a great airshow and Aaron got to fly in Fat Albert.

Walked to raise money for Verona Street Animal Society.

Hung out with horses on our annual trip to the Outer Banks.

Saw movies at the drive-in.

Took the boat out a lot.

Drooled over a pyrex exhibit at Corning Museum.

Welcomed Wyatt the moustached cat into the family.

Ate a lot of apples, donuts and apple cider on my #RocFallFarmTour

Mourned the loss of our family's long time companion, Wally.

Won a pumpkin carving contest.

Had our first craft show together as Janda Made.

Visited Seattle and had a fantastic time.

2015 To Do List

I only did 40-ish percent of my 2014 to-do list.

2014 To Do List

Six things I didn't get around to:

1. make a quilt

2. bake the perfect whoopie pie

3. start an etsy shop

4. make paper

5. read 10 classics - didn't even come close, not carrying this one over

6. learn flower arranging - didn't find a class

7. try dutch oven cooking when we go camping -sort of, well, I got the dutch oven at any rate.

Three things I did

8. ceramics class - check, I took 2 classes and made 20 pieces.

9. plant some berry bushes - check, we planted two raspberry bushes and one blueberry bush.

10. grow things in my greenhouse - check, we started all our garden plants in the greenhouse this year.

No worries. I'll just roll the unfinishe ones over!

2015 To Do List

1. make a quilt

2. bake the perfect whoopie pie

3. start an etsy shop

4. make paper

5. learn flower arranging

6. camping with dutch oven cooking

7. more Korean cooking

8. more leather crafts

9. make to go breakfast bites - homemade poptarts, muffins & granola bars

10. take a CPR class

Look back at 2014

I looked back over my blog posts for 2014 for a review of the year.

Some parts were tough... in May I lost both my Grandmothers.

But there were good things too.

We survived the polar vortex.

I took pottery classes and made about 20 pieces.

Went on Channel 8 News talking about Rochester Animal Services and social media.

Continued my jar obsession and decided pie pans were the next big thing.

Aaron got me a Chevy Spark for my birthday! In the driveway with a big red bow and all.

Aaron and I celebrated our 10 year wedding anniversay.

Spent a week at the outer banks with my family.

Aaron graduated UofR with an MBA. Threw him a party with Le Petite Poutine truck and Eat Me Ice Cream Cart.

Attended Rochester events - Fringe Festival, Food Truck Rodeos, Air Show and ROC 360 Tour.

Wore my Salt Water Sandals every summer day and moccasins all autumn.

Went to some great concerts - Ray LaMontayne, Queens of the Stone Age and Bastille

Experimented with cooking - s'mores dip, beer can chicken, salt potatoes, charcuterie, stuffing waffles, buffalo cauliflower bites

We traveled to Korea and toured lots of palaces and ate amazing food.

I went to three craft show with my peeps.

Picked strawberries, cherries, raspberries, blueberries, peaches and apples.

Blended everything in sight with a Vitamix.

Grew stuff in the green house and square foot garden.

We got a boat!

Tried pinhole photography, archery and leather crafts.