Wednesday, June 21, 2023

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
(#14 on this week's lineup @ Grammy's Grid Unlimited Link Party)

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Tuesday, June 20, 2023

From The Garden and This Week's Delayed Menu Plan

Yesterday I harvested the first gleanings from my garden.



I harvested green onions, yellow squash, a green pepper, and a sweet banana pepper.

Additionally, I harvested and dried herbs from the herb wheel...



...basil, sage, rosemary, thyme, chives, and oregano.





I also cut the first two zinnias of the summer and put them in a vase. So pretty!



That's some of what's growing in my garden right now. What's growing in yours?

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This week's delayed menu plan...

- Ground beef and vegetable stirfry over brown rice
- Oven-roasted chicken with baked potato and fresh asparagus
- Turkey burger and oven fries
- Chicken ranch salad with French Bread
- Out
- Leftovers

Have a nice day and a great rest of the week! 

Until next time...
~Rebecca

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Monday, June 19, 2023

Master To Do List and Menu Plan Monday - June 19, 2023

I feel like I've been missing in action and, for the past couple of weeks, I pretty much have been!

Elk Fork of the Salt River
Union Covered Bridge State Historic Site
Paris, Missouri

Since visiting with you last I've worked several days, celebrated one granddaughter's birthday, attended another granddaughter's graduation party, and spent a few days away with my youngest daughter and her family. It's been a very fun (and active!) couple of weeks and I've enjoyed them! Can't wait to share more about them with you later on, but, for now, let's take a look at the week ahead...shall we?

Hannibal, Missouri

This week's master to-do list...

- Clean house
- Do laundry
- Attend an online webinar
- Harvest peppers, squash, and onions from the garden
- Harvest and dry herbs from the herb garden
- Continue looking for a rim for spare tire on the van and have another tire fixed on the car
- Clean car out and list for sale
- Get another load of stuff from shed
- Work
- Attend a graduation party
- Celebrate two birthdays and an anniversary

View of the Mississippi From Lover's Leap
Hannibal, Missouri

This week's menu plan...

To be honest, everything has been in such a whirlwind the past two weeks (and I've been home so little) that I don't even know what's in the house. For now, I'm not even going to try to put a menu plan together. I don't even know at this point, but I may need to run to the store. I will try to get things lined out later today and may post a plan later on. If I don't get to it, I will wait until next week. 

Union Covered Bridge
Paris, Missouri

That's all for today. I will try to be with you again very soon!

Until then...
~Rebecca


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Monday, June 5, 2023

Master To-Do List and Menu Plan Monday - June 5, 2023

The morning has gotten away from me and, here we are, already well into the afternoon! I hope your Monday is going well! 

Butterfly on Marigold

How was your week and weekend? My week here was good; my weekend busy. I can't believe how fast the days are flying by and that the year is nearly half over already! Is it just me? Or does it seem that way to you, too?

Tiny Green Peppers on the
Plant in My Bucket Garden

It sure felt good to sleep in a bit later than usual this morning. I don't sleep well most nights anyway (never have), but, after being out of town a couple of weeks ago, I just couldn't seem to get caught up. I don't do well with heat and, even though it wasn't extremely hot, with no a/c and a lot of extra activity outside of my normal routine, I experienced a lot of hormonal imbalance and water retention. I'm just now starting to get back to normal and am feeling much better. I am so thankful!

Twin Cactus Roses

Well, the day is getting away from me and I have much to do, so I'm going to scoot for now. Let's take a look at the week ahead...shall we?

Tiny Skipper on Marigold

This week's master to-do list...

- Clean house
- Do laundry
- Answer a couple of letters
- Look for a rim to make a good spare for the van
- Make plans for an upcoming out-of-town adventure (more about that later)
- Celebrate granddaughter, Kelly's, first birthday
- Work

This picture was taken on the way in to work on my very first day.
That was June 5, 2014...nine years ago today! Hard to believe!

This week's menu plan...

I finally made it to a grocery store (yesterday...hadn't been to one since the 18th of May) and got restocked on fresh foods...fruits, vegetables, dairy, etc. Possible meal ideas this week include...

- Pork loin chop with baked sweet potato and asparagus 
- Oven roasted chicken with baked potato, asparagus and corn-on-the-cob
- Tuna and noodles with peas
- Stuffed pepper casserole with beets, green beans, and corn-on-the-cob
- FIsh sandwich with oven fries
- Possibly out an evening or two and/or leftovers

Bison Calves Born Recently @ Work

Well, that's it for today! You have a nice day and a great week ahead!

Until next time...
~Rebecca
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Friday, June 2, 2023

Tallgrass Prairie Wonders

I just got home a bit ago and wanted to share a few photos that I've taken on my way to, from, and at work this week...

Butterfly Weed
This plant is an important food source for butterflies
such as monarchs and the regal fritillary.

Monarch Butterfly on Purple Coneflower
Photo Credit

Regal Fritillary Butterfly
Photo Credit

Dickcissel
I so look forward to the return of these
little birds each year. Their sweet song 
brings me much joy!
Take a listen for yourself...


Pale Purple Coneflower

Baby Bison
We have four new ones this year
and they are absolutely adorable!

Bull (or Horse) Nettle

I hope you've had a terrific Friday and that you have a great weekend ahead!

Until next time...
~Rebecca

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