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1. Make mead.
2. Finish the novel I’ve been working on.
3. Get back into my old running routine.
4. Take a beach vacation with Adam and Reed.
5. Go to the Washington Island Hotel with Adam.
6. Get a really great haircut.
7. Go camping.
8. Help a friend navigate her pregnancy.
9. Teach Adam to swim.
10. Finish another book.
11. Pursue publishing.
12. Try growing a tobacco plant.
13. Turn the office into a really great workspace.
14. Teach Reed Norwegian.
15. Fly in an airplane.
16. Spend time every week trying new recipes.
17. Learn more about herbs.
18. Get a good yoga practice going.
19. Learn to read pulses.
20. Ride a horse.
21. Take Reed to visit the animals on a farm.
22. Read the Bible chronologically.
23. Grow our home garden.
24. Hang a clothesline.
25. Own a rosary.
26. Pray the rosary.
27. Throw Adam a birthday party.
28. Throw Reed a birthday party.
29. Bake Adam a tall man’s birthday cake.
30. Sew clothes.
31. Learn a new song on the cello.
32. Bake perfect bread.
33. Go sledding.
34. Collect greywater.
35. Make a successful loaf of sourdough.
36. Buy myself a nice dress.
37. Journal.
38. Cure a ham for eating prosciutto-style.
39. Cure a ham for baking.
40. Locate Stoughton’s Juneberry trees.
41. Spend a day picking black raspberries.
42. Get tattooed.
43. Get pierced.
44. Swim in Lake Kegonsa.
45. Play with Whitman.
46. Fry an elderberry blossom.
47. Start some Christmas traditions.
48. Bike through the countryside around Stoughton.
49. Go to the movie theater to see a movie-theater-movie.
50. Do 10 hikes from 60 Hikes withing 60 Miles.
51. Learn the names of the trees on the trail by the river.
52. Visit a foreign country.
53. Plant berry bushes.
54. Feed the birds.
55. Make our bedroom a room we love.
56. Get windowboxes.
57. Grow sprouts.
58. Get our passports.
59. Have a working share of a nearby CSA farm.
60. Do my mending.
61. Embroider something.
62. Learn to make great Indian food.
63. Drink more wine.
64. Build a root cellar.
65. Buy 1/4 of a cow’s worth of beef.
66. Support the legalization of raw milk.
67. Maybe have our second child.
68. Get to know more of my neighbors.
69. Do spring cleaning.
70. Host a Syttende Mai party.
71. Celebrate birthdays with homemade ice cream.
72. Grow, dry, and store herbs.
73. Give birthday presents.
74. Play “Motorboat” with Reed.
75. Eat seafood near the sea.
76. Paint just to paint.
77. Restore an old piece of furniture.
78. Help a new mom.
79. Picnic.
80. Pay off my student loans (or at least a good chunk of them).
81. Canoe on the Yahara River.
82. Give away money.
83. Have a meal at Lightyears.
84. Drink beer at the Malt House with Adam and Ben.
85. Make yogurt regularly.
86. Eat wild plants.
87. Go to the drive-in.
88. Press flowers and send them to people I love.
89. Grow flowers.
90. Watch a friend preform.
91. Paint my toenails.
92. Get a new houseplant.
93. Plant a fruit tree.
94. Watch The Nutcracker.
95. Dogsit.
96. Use handkerchiefs.
97. Grow potatoes because they are fun.
98. Roast beef.
99. Go fishing.
100. Make country wines.
101. Sit on the roof.
Making mead and using handkerchiefs were two things Adam picked up in 2009
I love your list. I owe you an email, and I keep thinking of you and Adam and Reed and what to write, but things have gone a little crazy on my end the past few weeks, including some scary stuff with my mom’s health.
Sorry for the lateness. I haven’t forgotten.
Comment by Sarah — 01-13-10 @ 13.26
What is greywater, by the way?
Comment by Sarah — 01-13-10 @ 13.29
greywater
Comment by lindsey — 01-13-10 @ 13.38
I read your blog! I’m so sorry to hear about your mom, Sarah. I know you haven’t forgotten. I look forward to hearing from you/seeing you whenever you feel like you can.
Comment by lindsey — 01-13-10 @ 16.56
60. goodness, me too. and it probably will take all three years.
66. do you buy raw milk yourself?
96. thumbs up. i try to do this, too but am bad at it.
85 & 100. teach me!
love these lists. good luck! be blessed! enjoy! take photos! <3
Comment by laura z. — 01-13-10 @ 20.09
Yes! I LOVE your list. My favorites would have to be: 2 (finish book: You can do it!! and it’ll be awesome I’m sure), 16, 50 (hiking:Looks interesting! I might have to do the same!), 57 (sprouts:Yum!), 59, 62!, 64 (root cellar: what is this exactly? Sounds like something I’d love), 66 (legalization: good God YES! we are still getting ours but I worry any day it will be taken away again), 68, 77, 96 (handkerchief: Jordan always has one on him)…
Comment by Patricia — 01-13-10 @ 22.25
Thanks, guys! As for the raw milk, we were getting some, but the feds shut down our supplier. Not only was it a bummer for us, but it is really detrimental for the small family farm’s finances- they are in danger of losing the farm entirely. I’m planning on finding another supplier (right now, I can’t drink milk anyway- Reed has a problem with me consuming a lot of lactose), but I’m really upset for the family- they are such good people and stuck their neck out to produce an excellent product they believed in.
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lindsay, i loved reading your list today. i’m glad that you did one. i feel like we should meet one day.
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