Summer has, once again, come and gone and...here we are...in the earliest days of autumn 2023! It came on so fast that I hardly realized that it had even arrived. I'm telling you the past few weeks and months have passed in a complete whirlwind! In my heart and mind I'm still stranded somewhere in late June. I don't know that I have ever been as totally oblivious to the change in seasons as I have been this year!
Oh, well! Enough of my incredulity! Now that I'm aware that my favorite season has arrived, let's talk fall! 🍁🍂🍁
Autumn on the Tallgrass Prairie
"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).
Although I probably won't get to all of them, here is a list of things that I hope to do and accomplish over the course of the autumn season...
My Autumn Bucket List 2023
- Post consistently (at least once per week) ✍
- Celebrate autumn birthdays with the grands 🎂
- Welcome my first great-grandbaby into the world 👶
- Visit the Louisburg Cider Mill
- Enjoy a cup of Louisburg cider (it's THE best!) 🥃
- Enjoy a Louisburg apple cider doughnut (always a real treat!) 🍩
- Get lost in a corn maze 🌽
- Observe the autumnal night sky ⭐🌠🌟
- Listen to a cricket sing 🦗
- Swap out summer clothes for winter 🧥
- Take a walk in the woods 🍁
- Make a batch of Mini Baked Pumpkin Cake Doughnuts 🍩
- Enjoy an autumnal full moon (Harvest Moon - September 29th, Hunter's Moon - October 28th, and Beaver Moon - November 27th) 🌕
- Host a wiener roast 🌭
- Enjoy a fall getaway 🚗
- Visit a pumpkin patch 🧡
- Observe a flock of migrating birds
- Enjoy a bonfire 🔥
- Attend the following conferances and classes through work...
- Complete the following programs at work...
- Terrific Turkeys (November) 🦃
- Follow through with a commitment to be a guest speaker at a local 4-H chapter meeting
- Light a fall-scented candle 🔥
- Listen to the honking of geese as they fly high overhead
- Enjoy hot soup and fresh baked bread on a cool day 🥣
- Go on a hayride
- Enjoy a rainy fall day ☔
- Have the propane tank filled
- Make a batch of Pumpkin Streusel Muffins 🧁
- Listen to a pack of coyotes sing across the prairie 🐺
- Celebrate National Bison Day @ work
- Bake a pumpkin pie
- Lead an impromptu frost flower hike to observe frost flowers in the field 🥾
- Make a pumpkin roll
- Set the clocks back when daylight savings time ends 🕑
- Walk (or dance the equivalent of) 90+ miles 👟
- Complete a six-week study on the Reformation
- Celebrate Reformation Day
- Weatherize my home before cold weather arrives ❆
- Clean up the yard (cut trees, trim bushes, etc.) 🏡
- Get my car serviced before winter (oil change, new wiper blades, etc.) 🚗
- Do a winter food and supply stock-up 🥫
- Celebrate Thanksgiving with family and friends 🦃
That's what's my autumn bucket list! What's on yours?
Until next time...
~Rebecca
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Sounds like you've got a lot of ideas here, hope you get to do them all. Congrats on becoming a great grandmother ♥ Have you ever gotten lost in a corn maze before? The thoughts of that scares me, yikes! I love scented candles. We hear coyotes every evening here in AL. Thanks so much for linking up at the #UnlimitedLinkParty 132. Pinned.
ReplyDeleteI always have a lot of ideas, Dee, but rarely do I get to all of them, but I'll sure wear myself out trying! LOL! Thanks! I'm very excited to meet my first great-grandbaby! He should be here by week's end! As for getting lost in a corn maze...yes! Every single time I'm in one! BUT...it's always in the daytime and always with family. We all generally get lost together and, somehow, we always manage to find our way out. We've only do corn mazes hosted by churches, though, so they're generally small (just a few acres) and fairly easy to manuever. I love scented candles, too. I've got a jubilent rose, lavender, and peach blossom one burning right now! Thanks for stopping in and commenting! Have a great Wednesday! <3
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ReplyDeleteI absolutely love your list! I'm definitely going to take inspiration from some of your ideas of things to do. 🎃 🧡
It's definitely my favorite season too! Enjoy soaking it up in the days ahead. 🍁 🌾 xoxo
Thanks, Carrie! As you can see, I'm running behind as usual I appreciate you taking the time to comment! Blessings for a beautiful autumn! <3
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