Rest-of-summer bucket list.

Let's not talk about the months since I last posted, or the fact that a summer bucket list is best crafted before summer is half over (which, no, ugh, it can't be), or how quickly spring and summer pass when you no longer have a "summer break" and summer really only happens on the weekends, with weekdays being the same as always (just maybe still daylight when you fall asleep.)

Let's just talk about how friggin' amazing the rest of the summer is going to be.

Things to Do Before Labor Day:

• Spend an entire "pool day" at the in-laws'. (Reading trashy magazines / drinking margaritas or PBR at the same time optional, but highly encouraged.)
• Pick peaches.
• Can pickles.
• Go hiking in the local greenbelt.
• Go to Rita's for ice cream.
• Play mini-golf (and I play to win.)
• Make boozy popsicles.
• Go to a flea market.
• Clean out the house.
• Make a salad with vegetables from my garden.
• Make a summer mix tape.
• Spend an evening making crafts.
• Take lots of pictures.
• Go to a local museum.
• Go to a real farmer's market.
• Have a date night downtown (local or one of the two nearby big cities!)
• Register for language classes at the community college (I loved Arabic in college, but I've always wanted to learn Polish too!)
•  Go to a concert.
• Go antiquing.
• Watch the sunrise.
• Make macarons.
• Learn to do a cartwheel (goal in progress, three years and counting.)
• Start a paper journal / scrapbook.

 What are you guys up to this summer? It's ridiculous, how fast it's going, right? Ugh, summer! Stop and stay. Forever.

(A friend and I did go strawberry picking. We've managed that, so far, and jam-making.)