Spring Bucket List 2023 Update

Wow! I'm so not 'with it' at present that I didn't even realize that it was the first day of summer until someone said something about it on the radio this morning! 😲

I will post my Summer 2023 Bucket List soon, but, in the meantime, here is an update on my spring list. Pictures and comments (in bold type and in parenthesis) have been added where applicable. 

1. Write my spring bucket list. 📜

2. Plan my spring menus (these will be posted each Monday in my weekly Master To-Do List and Menu Plan Monday posts) 📇

3. Celebrate spring birthdays with the grandlittles 🎂

4. Listen to spring peepers 🐸

5. Observe a bright, beautiful, and magnificant full moon (April 6th, May 5th, and June 3rd) 🌕

6. Pick a bouquet of pretty yellow daffodils 💛

7. Eat fresh asparagus

8. See a brand new baby bison 🧡 

9. See a prairie chicken

10. Plant a vegetable garden 🌱 

11. Take a walk in the rain ☔

12. Celebrate the kittens' first birthday (Tiger and Bear's) 🎂 

13. See Indian paintbrush blooming on the prairie

14. Observe eggs in a bird's nest 🐦

15. Pick a bouquet of purple violets

16. Eat fresh strawberries 🍓

17. Smell lilacs 💜 

18. Go geocaching 🧭

19. Paint, hide, and, hopefully, find rocks 🎨

20. Go on a picnic 🍗

21. Shop at a farmer's market 🍅

22. Plant flowers 🌷

23. Go camping ⛺

24. Dye eggs 🥚

25. Celebrate Resurrection Sunday with family and friends 🕆

26. Visit a state park that I've never been to before 🏞

(Actually visited, at least, eight new-to-me state parks and historic sites this year!)

Wallace State Park

Locust Creek Covered Bridge

State Historic Site

Pershing State Park

General John J. Pershing

Boyhood Home

Long Branch State Park

Mark Twain State Park and

State Historic Site

Union Covered Bridge

State Historic Site

Van Meter State Park

27. Hike a new trail 🥾

28. Celebrate May Day with a basket of fresh flowers 💐

29. Attend Spring Training

Spring Training at

Knob Noster State Park

30. Go fishing 🎣

31. Visit Hannibal, Missouri 

Mark Twain Memorial Lighthouse

Tom and Huck Statue

Lover's Leap

Tom Sawyer Fence

Becky Thatcher's Home

The Mississippi @ Night

32. Go on a Mississippi Riverboat Cruise ⼮

33. Explore a Missouri cave 

34. Visit the Dalton Museum at Coffeyville, Kansas 🤠

35. Spend a weekend with friends at the lake

36. Visit the Steamboat Arabia Museum in Kansas City (again)

37. Move stuff over from shed on Pedro 

(Am still working on this, but have made a good deal of progress.)

38. Get lattice repaired on front porch and have a solid floor built 

39. Clean out north shed and refurbish

40. Have my car serviced and readied for summer 🚗

(Got the new van, too, so am in the process of selling now.)

41. Wash the windows inside and out 

42. Get a chaise lounge or a zero gravity chair (something to recline in outside) 

43. Put up bamboo shades on the west side of porch

44. Pick a new color and repaint the house 🏡

45. Get a hanging plant or two for the front porch 🌸

(I purchased petunias at the Amish greenhouse and potted them myself. Unfortunately, the plants died. I think it was due to the soil I purchased.)

That's an update on my Spring Bucket List for 2023! How did your spring go? Did you get to do and accomplish a lot of the things that you had hoped to?

Until next time...

~Rebecca

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