Autumn Bucket List 2021

Summer is officially over and, once again, my favorite season has returned...AUTUMN...in all her glory! Warm days, chilly evenings, falling leaves, bonfires, and all things pumpkin spice! How nice! 🍁

Picture Taken Last Fall of Migrating Geese

I've been thinking about some of the things that I would like to do this fall and, perhaps, accomplish over the course of it. I know that I won't get to all of them, but at least this list will help me to stay focused on the season and, hopefully, enjoy it to the fullest. Won't you join me as I dream? 🍁🍂🍁

"While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, 

and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day 

and night shall not cease" (Genesis 8:22).

My Autumn Bucket List 2021

1. Write my autumn bucket list 🍂

2. Plan my autumn menus (this will be done weekly through my Master List and Menu Plan Monday posts) 

3. Seek to find my footing as I continue to walk out this new role of "widow" and adjust to living alone ("find my footing"...I'm not even sure what that means exactly, but I guess I'll find out as I just keep putting one foot in front of the other and taking one day at a time...it's all I can do) 🗓

4. Celebrate autumn birthdays with the grandlittles 🎂

5. Enjoy a juicy red apple 🍎

6. Visit the Louisburg Cider Mill 

7. Enjoy a cup of Louisburg cider (it's THE best!) 🥃

8. Enjoy a Louisburg apple cider doughnut (always a real treat!) 🍩

9. Host or attend a wiener roast 🌭

10. Visit a corn maze 🌽

11. Order in some fall scented dish soaps and liquid hand soaps from Mrs. Meyer's 

12. Make Homemade Pumpkin Spice Ice Cream 🍨

13. Observe the autumnal nighttime sky ⭐🌠🌟

14. Listen to a cricket sing 🦗

15. Clean closet and switch out summer clothes for winter 🧥

16. Enjoy a walk in the woods 🍁

17. Make a batch of Mini Baked Pumpkin Cake Doughnuts 🍩

18. Enjoy a cup of pumpkin spice tea ☕

19. Pick up pecans in my backyard (if the squirrels don't get 'em first!) 

20. Enjoy an autumnal full moon (Harvest Moon - September 20th, Hunter's Moon - October 20th, and Beaver Moon - November 19th) 🌕

21. Go on a "Heart of Little Dixie" tour with youngest daughter and her family 💓

22. Visit the graves of several notorious characters connected with Civil War history in Missouri ⚔

23. Visit a state park or state historic site that I've never been to before 🏞

24. Visit a pumpkin patch 🧡

25. Get back to geocaching - log twelve new locations 🧭

26. Watch falling leaves 🍁🍂🍁

27. Light an autumn-scented candle 🔥

28. Listen to the honking of geese as they fly high overhead 

29. Observe and record (sketch, photograph, or note) at least a dozen new or interesting things found in nature 🍄🐾🍁

30. Visit Fort Osage

31. Carve a pumpkin 🎃

32. Go on a hayride 

33. Enjoy a cool and rainy day ☔

34. Purchase an almanac and learn to read it 🕮

35. Make a batch of Pumpkin Streusel Muffins 🧁

36. Observe a flock of migrating birds 

37. Listen to a pack of coyotes sing across the prairie

38. Go to the lake for a much-needed get-away ⛵

39. Get the old van cleaned out and sold (doesn't run) 🚙

40. Bake a pumpkin pie 

41. Lead an impromptu frost flower hike to observe frost flowers in the field 🥾

42. Make a pumpkin roll 

43. Change batteries in smoke alarm (or put up a new one)

44. Walk (or dance the equivalent of) 75+ miles 👟

45. Celebrate Thanksgiving with family and friends 🦃

46. Weatherize my home before cold weather arrives ❆

47. Clean heating stove and make sure that propane tank is full  

48. Clean up the yard (cut trees, trim bushes, put the garden area to bed, etc.) 🏡

49. Put up a new bird feeding station in the back yard 🐦

50. Do a winter food and supply stock-up 🥫

That's what's on my autumn bucket list. What's on yours? 

Until next time...

~Rebecca

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