Fall Bucket List

I got a new computer a few weeks ago, which I thought would help make writing blog posts easier. However, there are some little things that I'm still learning to do and for some reason adding pictures to blog posts has not happened yet, which explains my text-less posts.

I'm trying very hard to embrace fall. It's not easy. I'm a summer girl. I live for the sunshine and water. It doesn't help either that every year the minute Labor Day comes I welcome my first cold or sinus infection. We are month in and I'm already on my second one this year. Fall is off to a great start.

I didn't make a fall reading list this year because I'm trying to read through some of the stacks around my house. I'm so far behind on my reading for the year too. It's pathetic. I did make a fall bucket list. It makes me excited to know that the end of fall are the holidays, which of course is my favorite time next to summer!

FaLl BuCkEt LiSt

- Have a fire.
- Pick apples.
- Buy a cinnamon candle.
- Bug leggings.
- Buy school supplies.
- Have a scary movie date.
- Watch Hocus Pocus.
- Drink apple cider.
- Make an apple pie.
- Take a morning walk.
- Watch ABC Family 13 Nights of Halloween.
- Go to a haunted house.
- Make a crockpot soup.
- Host a chili cook-off.
- Get new fall clothes.
- Have a fall Pinterest party.
- Watch football.
- Visit a pumpkin patch.
- Go on a picnic.
- Play disc golf.
- Go to a fall festival.
- Play football.
- Geocache.
- Go for a bike ride.
- Play a board game.
- Take pictures.
- Watch The Great Pumpkin.
- Celebrate gratitude month.

So regretfully I say, Happy Fall!

Fall at Lakeside

As I grow older I learn to appreciate Lakeside more and more during every season not just summer when there are weekends where you can't find a spot on the dock, there is a line for a table at the patio and golf carts and bikes are parked and strewn wherever one can find space.

We just returned from a relaxing and peaceful three days at Lakeside. When I was in grad school, I spent the majority of my weekends at Lakeside in the fall. It was gorgeous with the warm fall sunshine, changing leaves and crisp breeze off the lake. It was quiet too. The perfect place to sit back and relax with a book after a long week of classes.

I needed a respite this week. I've been sick with sinus issues and colds for the last few weeks. Run down I guess you could say and Lakeside was just the remedy. There was a golf cart rides on roads of sleepy cottages, walks on the dock with the wind whipping off the lake and lunches at some of my favorite summer haunts.

Had it not rained on Tuesday and the wind been so strong on Wednesday, not to mention my nasty cold, I would have been in the lake swimming, playing miniature golf and maybe even fishing. I did manage a few holes of disc golf and a trip to Mon Ami to stock up on wine for the winter. Yet even those simple adventures rejuvenated my spirit and had me feeling better upon returning home.

Although I miss Lakeside and will soon start counting the days until next summer, I'm so thankful to have all year long even if it is cold or quiet. It's being there that helps. So, it's not good bye, it's see ya later Lakeside. Until November..