How I Did With My Summer Bucket List & My Fall 2025 List

Since summer is over it's time to look at how I did with my summer bucket list & share my fall list. It is a link party (the same link will be kept open for a week and you can share how you did with your summer bucket list/goals or the new list and goals you've set for fall or both!). 


 In no particular order here are some of the things I had hoped to accomplish this summer: 

1. Go to Glacier National Park -- Check! 



 

2. Celebrate several graduations with extended family-- Check!  


3. Birthday shopping/lunch with my mom-- Check! 




4. Spend lots of time with family and friends-- Check! 

5. Try a new CSA (community supported agriculture) and lots of new recipes-- Check! We found a meat CSA to try this year and using our veggies we made roasted radishes and Swiss chard, zucchini relish, we made turkey burgers of all kinds, etc. 


6. Make our own pickles, jam, and marinara sauce-- check!

strawberry jam 

7. Visit the farmer's markets-- Nope but we did stop by a few farm roadside stands so I'm calling that good enough. 

8. Eat lots of meal outside-- Check!

 

9. Get to the beach-- Nope!

10. Go kayaking a time or two-- check!


 

11. Celebrate 4th of July with the whole family-- Check!  



12. See some fireworks-- Check! (though the fireworks displays were kind of pathetic this year)

13. Make some homemade ice cream-- Check!

14. Go to Canobie Lake Park- Nope; the boys asked to go to the zoo and the botanical garden instead. 

15.  Check out a new museum or nature preserve-- Check! On our Montana trip we went to the Conrad Mansion Museum.


 16. Visit a new to me restaurant-- Check! We actually ate at lots of new restaurants, David Burke Prime for a nice date night out, Gregg's (near Alec's campus), O'Rourke's (near Alec's campus), The Huckleberry Patch (Montana), Paul Bunyan Bar & Grill (Montana), Mercantile Steak (Montana). 

David Burke Prime

 

O'Rourke's


17. Put together a new puzzle-- check!


18. Paint some new paintings-- Check!


 19. Get "caught up" on my scrapbooking-- check! 


20. Go on a boat ride-- Check! We went on 3 boats in Glacier National park.   

I'm very pleased with how I did! We had so much fun this summer. 


Here is my Fall Bucket List:

1. See 21 Pilots in concert with Evan 

2. Take Evan to North Carolina to see the whole family

3. See SIX live in theaters

4. Go to the immersive Monet exhibit with Alec

5. Take some pretty fall hikes

6. Take Evan on one last college tour (Nichol's college)

7. Go see Hadestown with my two youngest

8. Celebrate Evan's 18th birthday

9. Celebrate Ben's Birthday with a special dinner out 

10. Celebrate Thanksgiving with the family

11. Decorate for Christmas

12. Read by the fire/wood stove

13. Put together a few puzzles

14. Scrapbook our Glacier National park trip

15. Paint at least 2 new paintings

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Linking up with:




 


Comments

  1. Handmade in IsraelSeptember 22, 2025 at 5:50 AM

    You went on some wonderful trips, and the ice cream looks delicious :)

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Joanne September 22, 2025 at 8:44 AM

      Aw, thank you, we really did have some wonderful trips.

      Delete
  2. Amy ScottSeptember 22, 2025 at 6:35 AM

    You did great! I will try to link my list tomorrow after it goes live.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Carol @Comfort Spring StationSeptember 22, 2025 at 7:52 AM

    I love your list and all you did! You're such a well-rounded individual with hiking, crafting, painting, sightseeing, and trying new restaurants. I hope you have a fabulous week! #MMBC

    ReplyDelete
  4. LyshaSeptember 22, 2025 at 8:15 AM

    We loved Hadestown. Now one of our favorites! You packed so much joy and intention into your summer!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Joanne September 22, 2025 at 8:47 AM

      We are HUGE Greek mythology fans so we're really excited.

      Delete
  5. LyssySeptember 22, 2025 at 8:16 AM

    What a great summer! Your paintings are incredible!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Joanne September 22, 2025 at 8:48 AM

      Thank you so much! I'm just getting back into painting after a many year absence.

      Delete
  6. GinaSeptember 22, 2025 at 8:20 AM

    Your Fall list looks as impressive as your summer one. (I did not get to the beach either, darn it) Maybe I should put one of these lists together, too! Mine seem to be all chores lately.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Joanne September 22, 2025 at 8:49 AM

      Aw, thank you! I like to make these lists to remind me to occasionally set those chores aside since housework is always there and have some fun once in a while.

      Delete
  7. JoyceSeptember 22, 2025 at 8:29 AM

    You did great getting to all your fun summer plans. I am working on my fall list now, but my summer list makes me a little sad. I didn't get to so much because of my ankle. It still feels so summery here it's hard to think of fall. Hope you enjoy all the fall fun on your list!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Joanne September 22, 2025 at 8:50 AM

      Yeah, I bet that definitely made it hard to get some stuff done... hey, I say if it still feels summery keep on working on it! LOL. It is definitely feeling like fall here-- it was only 42 this morning!

      Delete
  8. BojanaSeptember 22, 2025 at 8:53 AM

    Wow, you accomplished a lot over the summer. I like the way you put things like celebrating birthdays on the list and puzzle, things that you know take up time and will happen, but you still have to make them happen.

    bosbodaciousblog.blogspot.ca

    ReplyDelete
  9. Melynda@Scratch Made Food!September 22, 2025 at 9:06 AM

    Great list! I really need to start a list...#MMBC

    ReplyDelete
  10. Kim CarberrySeptember 22, 2025 at 9:36 AM

    You did really well with your summer bucket list and it looks like a busy but great summer!
    I love what you have planned for the Fall.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Favorite TV Shows Growing Up in the 80's and early 90's

Image
Do you remember the TGIF lineups on Friday nights? I can remember planning sleepovers and time with friends around TV Show lineups of our favorite shows... or else trying to set the VCR to record our favorite shows if we weren't going to be home. And through the years I had SO MANY favorites! Growing pains aired in 1985 which put me around age 8 and it stayed on the air until I was 15 or so; I'm pretty sure most people in my age group watched mostly for Kirk Cameron and all his antics.  I still have a soft spot for family sit-coms!  The Facts of Life aired when I was just 2  and stayed on the air until I was 11 so I'm sure the episodes I remember so fondly were either some of the later ones and then reruns shown later on when I was old enough to watch from the beginning. I think everyone would have loved an Edna Garret in their lives.   Benson another sitcom that began airing when I was just 2 and was done by the time I was 9 (another one I must have watched mai...
Read more

Things That Make Me Laugh

Image
I loved the challenge of this week's list for our 26 lists link up.  I don't know about you but I really need to laugh more lately.  It's such a great stress reliever. 1.  Books-- I love a good funny book that makes me laugh out loud.  I haven't read one in a while but if you have any recommendations I'm all ears.  The last book I can remember making me laugh was the Un-Honeymooners. 2  The boys being silly. 3.  Watching shows like America's Funniest Videos or Family Feud. 4. My husband.  Most people don't realize it but he's actually pretty funny and often makes me laugh. 5.  Whenever my sisters/ family get together and we get to reminiscing (particularly if my Aunt Elaine is around) we end up laughing so hard at all the old family stories that we are all in tears by the end of the night.  It's fabulous. 6. Movies like Mom's Night Out, Christmas Vacation, and Grown Ups make me laugh out loud. 7.  When my ...
Read more

Alec's Accepted Student Day at JWU

Image
Last spring when Alec started his college planning I was pretty surprised that he only wanted to visit 2 colleges out of state (he visited a few in-state with his high school culinary class).  He ultimately decided to apply to just the 2 colleges we visited-- Johnson and Wales University (JWU) and the Culinary Institute of America (CIA). Both ranked as the #1 & #2 schools in the U.S for culinary and baking/pastry arts. Funny enough out of his 2 culinary teachers he's had in high school one attended each of those schools!  Photo of harborside campus from last spring JWU Future wildcat photo also from last spring Visiting the CIA over the summer We were lucky that both schools are easily visited in a day and we had a great time touring them both. Alec made sure to ask lots and lots of questions. The two schools were so comparable to one another that we had quite the pro/con list going.  He LOVED the CIA's campus and that it was along a river and rather rural and quiet.....
Read more

Prime Purchases in August

Image
I've been pretty pleased with myself and how little we've been using Amazon. Since we got rid of Prime in December I am definitely waiting until I have a large enough order to qualify for free shipping and usually only for items I can't find around town. So I've only place one order in July and 2 in August!  I won a $50 gift card (thank you Billie Jo!)  plus I found an old gift card from a Christmas or two ago and decided to splurge on a few items for our hiking trip. Since I never shared the few items I bought in July either I thought I'd add those to today's post. All in all for 2 months worth of shopping I think I did really great!    In July I bought a refill of this toothpaste; I just love it.    and I bought myself a new activity tracker when my broke while birthday shopping with my mom. I really like the purple band so much better than the pale pink one I had on my old tracker.  The first order I placed in August was for some more of these st...
Read more

100 Days of Science #68-- Index Card Tower

Image
My boys did such a wonderful job with their spaghetti bridges and popsicle stick bridges that I decided to look up some other fun STEM challenges.  I found a fun index card challenge that I thought they might like.  I handed each of them a package of index cards from the dollar store and asked them to build the tallest tower they could just using index cards.   Evan struggled quite a bit at first not thinking about folding the cards in any way but once we saw what his older brother's were doing he hatched a new plan.  Every now and then they'd stop to measure their towers.. being very careful not to knock them over. Ian build his tower on our coffee table making sure to use a nice wide base. Ian's tower was the tallest by just a few inches and Evan had the shortest. This challenge really got them thinking about structural integrity and they had to be real careful of how they moved about too. ...
Read more