Something like a bucket list.

I kinda spend a lot of time thinking about what I am going to do after the shanty is finished, and I am itching to start a new big, awesome, kick ass project to make say my name. 

This has led me to put together something like a bucket list that I am going to share with you today!

Here are just a few highlights of schtuff that I must do in this lifetime, in no particular order.

• Build a barn. Fill it with cows and pigs and maybe an alpaca.
• Enter an all you can eat contest.
• Rebuild the 1968 GTO that’s been sitting in my parent’s garage since I was in the single digits.
• Take a road trip across the U.S. and visit a bazillion state parks and binge on local famous foods.
• Become a beekeeper.
• Tap some maple tree ass and make sizzurp.
• Hike the Appalachian Trail.
• Take a pole dancing class and learn how to hang upside down by one leg while looking graceful and sexy.
• Run a marathon or two.
• Take horseback riding lessons and get good enough to work cattle.
• Acquire my own trusty steed and enough cattle to shuffle around.
• Write a novel.
• Okay, just write a short story.
• Learn how to speak French, pour de vrai. I took 6 years between high school and college and don’t have much to show for it!
• Truly live Zero Waste. I mean a sandwich baggie of trash per year kinda life.
• Learn how to drive a tractor purposefully, not just chug-a-lug around. Like bale hay and plow fields…like a lady boss farmer.
• Become a foster parent.
• Brew my own brewskis and ferment my own dandelion, elderberry and homegrown fruit vino.
• Learn how to make pottery on a kick wheel.
• Have my own booth at the Farmer’s Markets in the area.
• Turn my first car (’97 cavalier) into a derby beast, and whoop up on some hillbillies.
• Be more active in what I believe in politically. I don’t mean posting junk on social media – Actually get out, volunteer, lobby, make a difference.
• Go back to school and get a degree in Geological Sciences or Geography for no reason other than pure interest.

Never lose the optimism that everything will be fine, the patience to stick with your ambitions, and the confidence that you can physically and mentally learn how to do anything in this world.