June's Bucket/Goal List

So here we are, just a few days from June. Around here spring has gone pretty quickly (albeit slightly wetter and cooler, as it has most places), and summer is pretty well upon us. Again, slightly wetter and cooler than normal, but here is Colorado, we won't complain about a little extra rain, since this year we are not a drought zone for the first time in quite awhile. Having said that we're looking at eighty from the weekend onward from what I can see.

Anyway, while I'm looking at a couple fun trips weekend wise over the summer, the plan is to hang and enjoy all the mountains have to offer until the big trip in September. While I have all those pages of things to do and places to explore locally, when it comes to planning I'm more of a month at a time kind of girl. So the list below is half bucket list, half goal list I suppose, for the coming month-a few things I want to do, a couple things I need to do. And so it goes:

1. Take an in person class and a Utube type class. I normally don't pay much for entertainment (said as I just spent twenty three dollars to see John Wick 3 the other day with the attendant food). But I enjoy the social aspects as well of the challenge. I have yet to decide between a four week "write a legacy to your kids" type of thing, and a one full day table runner class using a skill I have yet to master.  Both?? Utube class still undecided
2. Go to at least two different farmer's markets/festivals, a local outdoor museum and a local indoor museum. One each week.
3. Aim for 120,000 steps this month (without worrying about the pace) and twenty minutes of other exercise (Tai Chi, chair yoga, weights) five days a week. The 120 thousand equals six thousand a day five days a week.

   

   Fabrics for inspiration

4. Sew something patriotic and craft something patriotic-the crafting will probably be a birdhouse!
5. Partake in Donna's Saved Savings Challenge. I actually plan to do this all summer in preparation for fall wedding and travel!  I'll start with the "how much I saved" amount on the receipt from this week's big shop. 

   

   A never used vase at the ready, at least to start with!

6. Make some upper yard decisions. We're not fixing this cockeyed pergola till the fall (can't decide between covered pergola, she shed or something in between). So I need to make it as pretty as I can meanwhile, by trimming back the vines just a little (I love the privacy), getting at least partially matching covers for the seats, perhaps putting a tabletop heater and deciding on which table the umbrella will go-all for as little money as possible (hello thrift stores and end of season sales). 

   

   Of course it's a gray day, but you can see the lushness...

   
   

   

   It's been sitting in this corner for weeks, time to decide where to put it, pergola table or patio table!

   
   
   
7. Make S'mores on the grill and bake sand tarts (not the cookie, more like an egg tart-more later).
8. My passport expires on the 21st. Get my butt in gear so it can be a renewal instead of a new passport request, dammit!!
9. Read a non fiction book that isn't a craft or instruction manual.
10. Spend at least one hour every non rainy day on the swing outside with the dogs-napping, reading, knitting, daydreaming or whatever.
11. Take a photograph a day using a prompt/list I have yet to pick out. My pictures can use improvement to say the least, so I hope to actually take multiple photos each day.

And there you have it........my goals and to dos for June (beyond the normal).