53 Before 54

My niece’s birthday is in January and she posted a list on her blog of 27 things to do before she turned 28.  Me, being a lover of lists and goals, I decided that I should make a list as well.  Of course, MY birthday is in June, so my 53 things before 54 were a bit more challenging because I only had five whole months to work on them!

I was able to accomplish 18 out of 53 which is only about one third. Well, I just had that birthday, so I started a new list for the coming year.   With twelve months to work on my list, that means that I only have to finish four and a half goals per month.  That’s about one per week!  That seems doable, right?

 

53 Before 54

1) Finish Unpacking                                            28) Organize Craft Supplies

3) Sew Fluffies                                                      29) Go Yard Saling

3) Finish Round About                                      30) Go to the temple monthly

4) Gray collar on coat                                          31) Start a garden

5) Tie a fleece blanket                                        32) Make Jean Leg baskets

6) Find TV remote                                              33) Create body for fairy

7) Start Blog & post often                              34) Finish D’s Santa

8) Clear off table                                                  35) ComputerJournal                    

9) Write Worlds & Beings                                36) New phone contract

10) Index 1000 names                                         37) Keep weight below 150

11) Make Valentine Pillow                                 38) Finish & mail daffy pillow

12) Practice Guitar weekly                                39) Read all R.S. lessons

13) Find Battery Charger                                40) Make & send Valentines

14) Write New Song                                          41) Sew sock bunnies

15) Snowman Pillow                                              42) Go on a trip

16) Hats for sale                                                    43) Start a business

17) Read 6 books                                                 44) Photography course

18) Go to Marion Gunn Park                          45) Early birthday gifts

19) Become a temple worker                             46) Make a new friend

20) Have 10 blog readers                                   47) Make graduated presser

21) Bug Quilt                                                         48) Have a sleep over party

22) Start New Job                                               49) Photo Shop a quote

23) Read through Mosiah                                   50) Cut off dyed hair

24) Do Visiting Teaching                                   51) Walk in the rain

25) Sew Pink Quilt for baby                              52) Make May Day baskets

26) Teach RS Lesson                                         53) Start a composter

      27) Have a calling                                                     54) June 10, 2012

#11 Make a Velentine Pillow

#5 Tied Fleece Blanket

#31 Start a Garden (Vegie Container Garden)

#31 Start a Garden (flower garden)

Misty's Adventures

I love my little apartment out in the woods. . . mostly.  I love the quiet of the evening, the cool shady surroundings, the drive up the road and even the tiny space that is mine.  When I rented it, I had no idea that I also held a garage sized storage space in the basement.  Of course, the probability of mice down there is pretty high, so I don’t dare to take anything down that’s not in a plastic tub.  I’ve seen my Mom’s yarn where the ‘cute little things’ made a nasty nest.  Hence, I keep most of my craft supplies upstairs.  I guess that I’m going to have to be strong and take some of it down.  Surely, I must. 

Misty by the door

Misty stalking a chipmunk

I love the view out my back door.  It’s a sliding glass door that leads out onto a small wooden deck.  Of course, it’s so surrounded by trees that not a whole lot of light gets in once the leaves come back.  My back porch is littered with beech nut husks too.  They’re a bugger to step on bare footed!  I’ve been collecting them for crafting though.  I think they would make a very nice touch on a pine cone wreath.  I’ll have to make one and show you what I mean.  Of course, the time for making pine cone wreathes is farther along in the year, when ripe cones fall.

Beech nut husks

My cat, Misty loves to go out in the morning to do her thing and then, sit on the deck, watching squirrels.  It’s been rainy quite a bit of late.  I hate to leave her out if it’s going to start raining.  I hate even more (at 6 in the morning) the feeling that I have to wait around for her to decide to come in again!  I hit upon a plan the other day.

When I first moved in, I found a stick that fit really nicely in the unmovable side of the sliding glass door.  It’s about the size of a yard stick but it is very rough and has a lovely rusty nail sticking up out of it.  I left the nail in it because it works very nicely as a handle to pick it up with, should I want to open the door and go out.  With the stick in the door, it opened about two inches so I took a steak knife to my stick and made it so that the door would open about four inches.  It’s wide enough for the cat to come in and out but I don’t think that it’s wide enough to get anything out.  It’s conceivable that you could pull my flat screen tv out, but since I only planned to leave it open if I was home, I didn’t see much problem with that.  All was well in my happy home in the woods.

Misty hunting the chipmunk that is ten feet up the tree

Misty woke me up at the crack of dawn one day last week, so I let her out while I used the facilities.  (This way she wouldn’t know that I was occupying her spot as I think the thought bothers her.)  She wouldn’t come right back in, so I went back to bed, leaving the door open four inches so she could come in when she was ready.  It was probably about two hours later that I was again awakened by the cat.  She was running around the living room like a wild thing.  When I went out to see what was up, she was obviously stalking something.  Now, when your cat is stalking something in the living room, that’s surely not a good sign.  I saw a little brown nose and thought it was a mouse.  It turned out to be a chipmunk!  FUN!  She eventually chased it over by the front door and I let it out.  I don’t think that she was happy with me for letting her toy escape.  Do I care?  Do you think that I’m going to care enough in the morning to leave the door open so she can come back in?  I have my doubts.  She will have to wait until I’m ready to get up.  And no, she will not be allowed to bring her toys in any more.  Poor kitty!