My Summer Bucket List 2021 ~ Harvest Lane Cottage

 Summer's a season filled with things to love and hate.  Love... swimming, fresh veggies from the garden or farmer's market, flowers, fireworks on the fourth of July, a lazy afternoon with a good book. Hate... heat, bugs, mosquito bites, dewy complexions—ehem.  Still, there's a lot to be said for summertime. Let's carpe diem... seize the day and make the best of this season... and praise God for air conditioning if you have it!

Getting things done is often 

one part work and two parts focus. 

~smile~ 

My Bucket Lists help me to focus on the things that I want to do that aren't part of my daily routine. They also remind me to have a little fun and enjoy the season! I will change the listings to italics as I cross them off the list.

Here are some ways I want to seize the day this summer.

~ Write my Summer Bucket List
~ Write my Summer Reading List
~ Watch fireworks
~ Make this salad
~ Ice cream run

~ Bake Ladybird Johnson's Lemon Cake
~ Sonic Happy Hour run for Frozen Lemonade

~ Sonic run for slushes. 
~ Read a good novel ~ Come Back to Me
~ Drive-in movie Cruella 

~ Go knitting with a friend
~ Get caught up on my reviews

~ Real Estate Investing (Decluttering)
~ Eat from our garden 

~ Make dill pickles

~ Read a book, or two, or three
...or four or five or six!

~ Make zucchini cake

~ Talk to strangers

~ Enjoy wildflowers throughout the house

~ Quarantine 

~ Make bread and butter and dill pickles

~ Make jam

~ Worship Jesus under the stars
~ Picnic in the park
~ Barbecue with friends

~ Make zucchini apple bread

~ Paint the porch table and chairs. We had the cushions recovered.
~ Sew a project bag for my knitting 

~ Go yarn shopping with a friend

~ Knit a bikini ~ Nah, just joking! LOL

~ Sit by a fire and worship Jesus
~ Sew a new skirt or remake an old dress

~ S'mores

~ Try a new pie recipe—maybe an old-fashioned pie or hand pies

~ Knit two pairs of socks. 
~ Sit by water and worship Jesus

~ Blow bubbles

~ Stargazing
~ Eat icy cold watermelon
~ Catch fireflies

~ Find our church

PRAISE GOD FOR LIFE!

My 2017 summer bucket list was written just after my cancer diagnosis and was implemented during chemotherapy. Thank you God for life and for determination to make the best of whatever time you give me.

What are you planning to do this summer?

ஐღLauraღஐ 

...doing what I can with what I've got

where I am on a short shoestring budget!

~~~~~