Making progress

Spicy pickled carrots

Ingredients for tomato jam

The final product

 Practice shot in photography class at Blue House

I am happy to report that I am making progress on my list, my friends! In the past few weeks I pickled carrots, made tomato jam, and took a dosa class at Hollanders (which was great). Sadly, I missed blueberry season in Michigan. Do you think that picking raspberries should count (being berries and all)? 

I really enjoyed making the jam and pickling the carrots...so much so that I am planning on entering my pickled carrots in a local pickle contest on Saturday. A friend of mine is also entering some pickles, so it should be a fun event. 

Next on the list: apple picking, visiting the cider mill, and picking out some pumpkins in a pumpkin patch. I can't believe that it is almost Halloween. Yikes.

1. Bake something once a week
2. Visit Cannon Beach
3. Sew something (maybe a quilt?)
4. Roast a chicken
5. Read King Leopold’s Ghost
6. Make a necklace
7. Pick blueberries
8. Go to a Michigan football game
9. Take L. to the zoo
10. Buy Zingerman’s bread once a week
11. Pick apples
12. Visit The Wave Field
13. Make croissants
14. Pickle carrots
15. Take L. to the pumpkin patch and corn maze
16. Visit the cider mill with L. and O.
17. Take a class at Pot & Box
18. Learn more about our camera
19. Get up early and go bird watching
20. Plant succulents
21. Take a BAKE class
22. Make a snowman
23. Visit Leelanau County and Sleeping Bear Dunes
24. Work on photo album for L.
25. Make pâte de fruit
26. Go to the Homegrown Festival
27. Take a winter stroll in the Arb
28. Make Bûche de Noël
29. Go for a walk once a week (even in winter)
30. Put up a Christmas tree
31. Read The Brothers Karamazov
32. Make jam
33. Plan monthly art project to do with L.
34. Take a class at Hollander’s
35. Visit the Natural History Museum