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

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

Season bucket lists

At the beginning of summer my friend Patricia told me she had started a summer bucket list. I thought that was a great idea. I love lists! I put ours on the foyer chalkboard so I could chart my progress everyday.

The result? I addd a few photos of our successes as we went along. We picked a LOT of fruit! Add in peaches as a bonus! I was a little bummed we didn't get out camping this supper but hey... we got a boat! Can't really complain about our summer!

It went so well I started a fall bucket list.

2014 To Do List

Instead of New Year's Resolutions, I like to set myself up for success and just pick 10 things I would like to do or try in the coming year. If I don't get to them all, that's okay. They roll over to the next year.

2013 To Do List

(I did six of my ten to-do's and a few I want to expand on.)

1. bake bread - done 11/26 - I had to bake the bread for turkey stuffing but that counts! Next I would like to make this peasant bread

2. make a quilt

3. grow a cutting garden - done 9/12, it was pretty weak though... need to beef it up this year

4. glass etching - done 12/22 - love this! I'll be doing more of this in the future!

5. coffee brewing classes - done 5/23, it was an esspresso class, would like take a home brewing class

6. bake the perfect whoopie pie

7. start an etsy shop

8. make paper

9. cross country skiing - done 2/18, more of this in 2014! We have the snow for it.

10. cake decorating class - done 1/31, I would like to take the second class

2014 To Do List

(These first four are things I didn't get to last year.)

1. make a quilt - I've seen a few places that offer classes!

2. bake the perfect whoopie pie

3. start an etsy shop - well I have it, I just haven't put anything in it!

4. make paper

Some new ones!

5. read 10 classics - (see below) I either don't remember reading some of these or somehow missed them in school. Reviewing the books that I have read, it's obvious I left British Romanticsm dominate my reading choices. all Jane Austen, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights... etc. Looking forward to picking these books up - real books, not ebooks. Like Penguin Classics. I came up with this list by looking up top novels/classics of all time and pulling from multiple sources.

6. ceramics class - I want to learn to use the wheel at Genesee Center for Arts and Education

7. grow things in my greenhouse - I'm going to try some spinach this winter. I'll also be starting my seedlings in there for the veggie garden this spring.

8. learn flower arranging - hopefully I'll have more flowers from my cutting garden this year to work with.

9. plant some berry bushes - I'm thinking raspberry back by our garage.

10. try dutch oven cooking when we go camping - Dutch oven history and care, Dutch oven cooking. Strawberry rhubarb cobbler! Dutch oven stuffed peppers! Hoo hoo!

 

10 Classics to read in 2014

1. Catcher in the Rye

2. To Kill a Mockingbird

3. The Great Gatsby

4. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

5. Fahrenheit 451

6. Animal Farm

7. Of Mice and Men

8. 1984

9. Ulysses

10. The Metamorphosis

To do...

Check, check, check and check.

Guess it's time to start a winter list.