Week 60 Monday (3/2/15)

Recipe Review

Today’s Recipe and Location:           Orange-Vanilla Fruit Salad        

Found in: The Pioneer Woman Cooks: A Year of Holidays

                  Pages: 108 - 109      Copyright:  2013  Harper Collins

         This is the best salad if you just love fruit. This salad contains five different fruits.  Yes five.  Count’em. Of course, two of them are berries which takes them off of my list, but this is one heck of a pretty salad. I would think that this would be perfect for a Easter Brunch or summer luncheon. 

Random Reflections - Bucket List #48

         My niece, Molly, suggested I could write some school units to sell. Since I loved creating, maybe I could make some units for various grades to sell that would make my separation from school be less dramatic, and make me some bucks on the side.  Of course, it is just one more major project for my bucket list. How can anyone think that I will be bored when I retire, when I have this list to complete before I die?  As my teammate, Steve, knows I WILL complete everything on this list.  If there is one thing for sure, it is that I always meet my goals.

I want to create units for teachers to purchase
·    Write a book on organizing a home
·     Using my dogs and possibly my great-nephews, and design a series of greeting cards
·      plan my funeral
·      spend a fun day with each of my nieces/nephews (Alaina has volunteered to be first!)
·      Take a formal cooking class
·      Organize and host a Christmas Caroling Party
·      Watch the IMBd list of the best 250 movies
·      Vacation in Colorado
·      create a list of home repairs
·      Prepare to teach a new course at Aurora University
·      Visit Brookfield Zoo and photograph the animals
·      Have absolutely no debt
·      Set up a schedule for next summer to visit area cities
·      Organize and purge the basement
·      I am going to learn as much as I can about large animals
·      Make repairs in each and every room of my home to prepare to sell
·      Research Hadrian’s Wall for visit to Scotland
·      Enter a quilt in a local fair
·      Write a book about school for parents
·      Host a game party
·      Purchase a truck
·      I would like to learn more about fostering animals
·      Visit the narrowed list of Kentucky towns each for a weekend
·      Have a B.M.I. of 24.9 or lower
·      Return to Florida/Alabama and see old friends
·      Play tennis again
·      Learn to play bridge
·      Have an in-ground pool
·      Finish writing a book on the Scent Family
·      Save up enough money for a down payment on my Kentucky house
·      Research every town in Kentucky in hopes of relocating
·      Work on learning calligraphy and bettering daily penmanship
·      Begin making my own clothing using a mannequin
·      Volunteer at an animal rescue
·      Visit all 50 states
·      Photography courses
·      Complete all of Mom’s and my scrapbooks
·      Go skiing again in Colorado
·      Meet the Duggar family
·      Watch every nominee and winner for the Academy Awards to date
·      Remodel my kitchen
·      Take piano lessons
·      Write 2 books for my great-nephews
·      Travel to Wales
·      Travel to Scotland
·      Alaskan cruise

Wants and Wishes

         Today, more than anything else I want to rid my body of this bronchitis. Two weeks ago I thought it was gone, but it has returned in full force. I called the doctor this time, because it was so strong. Hopefully, the meds will kick in and this will go away once and for all.