Day 194
I lost a season. Actually, I lost two seasons … spring and summer.
I was too busy packing during the first one – too busy unpacking during the second one and I feel the slide into autumn almost daily.
Where did this time go?
If you are anything like me … not taking into account packing and unpacking but more along the lines of “putting off” until next week or some other time … summer is just about over, before I feel I got the chance to really do anything “summery”.
Alas.
I pulled out an article from a magazine long before the peonies were even in bloom … a “Summer Bucket List” of sorts. Things that sounded great to do sometime during the ensuing 3 months that stretched before me. Things I thought I WOULD do or at least could do if I put my mind to it.
The list read as such …
1. Prep all of your meals without using the stove or oven for a day. Well, yes, DUH. I do not cook. It was 14,000 degrees in this house most of June and July … why on Earth would I turn on an appliance – other than a fan? (Check one for me!)
2. Skinny dip. Well, if you count the countless showers I took over the summer, 2-3 some days, I’d say yes … but that’s not exactly skinny dipping. (So, no check for me on this one!)
3. Cook a live lobster. OMG. NO WAY IN HELL. There might be a lobster on my shoulder … but there will never be a live lobster in my pot. Unless I’m saving him from someone else who wants to cook him. (Definite no check for me!)
4. Reread your favorite novel. Well, yes … I’d have to give myself a check for that. I don’t have a favorite, however, I’ve been rereading my old favorites from when I was a kid. Do it every summer … so, check/check for me.
5. Take more pictures. Okay, this is a tough one. Until TODAY I have not been so great with taking pictures. I was going to visually chronicle every step of my redo of this house … and well, I flunked that task BADLY. But, I have a new camera … so, pictures will be forthcoming. (No check on this one.)
6. Run through a meadow. Hmmm. I walked through a cemetery and in a park … but that’s not exactly the same thing. (No check for this one, but that would have been fun!)
7. Catch lightning bugs. Ha! Yes, a big fat check mark for this one! Woo-hoo! Of course, it helps if you actually LIVE somewhere where there are fireflies to actually catch! (I’m giving myself an extra check for that rhino beetle, too!)
8. Get the room with the view. Um, no. I didn’t go on any other trip than going back to Denver and though I did have a room with a view (I slept on the couch and my view was an 182 lb dog with slobber dropping from his jowls, inches from my face in the morning) I don’t think that’s the kind of room with a view intended. (A big NO on this one.)
9. Take in a music festival. Yes! Check me off on this one. While in Denver, Sam and I went to Red Rocks and had a lovely evening under the stars.
10. Take a road trip. Yes on this one. Not exactly a FUN road trip as it was just me and the animals for 1000 miles, but a 2 day road trip with 5 animals nonetheless. (Yes on this one!)
11. Get caught in the rain. Um, well … I didn’t get caught in the rain as much as enjoyed the rain showers and thunderstorms we had. (So, no … I didn’t do a Gene Kelly even once.)
12. And … eat heirloom tomatoes. You bet! Check me off on this one, too. Not only did I eat them, I grew them (had a BLT tonight!) … nothing like homegrown tomatoes. (Check, check and double-check!)
Well, looking back, I guess I didn’t fare so badly on the bucket list. Guess I should put together one for fall because it’ll be here (and gone) before we know it!