I like lists...I borrowed this one from Meg and added my own color.

The colored items, I've accomplished.

1.     Started your own blog (s)

2.     Slept under the stars

3.     Played in a band

4.     Visited Hawaii

5.     Watched a meteor shower

6.     Given more than you can afford to charity

7.     Been to Disneyland/world

8.     Climbed a mountain (does a volcano count?) 

9.     Held a praying mantis

10. Sang a solo

11. Bungee jumped

12. Visited Paris

13. Watched a lightning storm at sea 

14. Taught yourself an art from scratch

15. Adopted a child  (Do adopted pets count?)

16. Had food poisoning

17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty

18. Grown your own vegetables

19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France

20. Slept on an overnight train (36 hours from ND to VT-we didn't have a sleeper compartment though)

21. Had a pillow fight

22. Hitch hiked

23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill

24. Built a snow fort

25. Held a lamb (helped deliver a lamb)

26. Gone skinny dipping

27. Run a Marathon

28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice

29. Seen a total eclipse 

30. Watched a sunrise or sunset

31. Hit a home run

32. Been on a cruise

33. Seen Niagara Falls in person

34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors

35. Seen an Amish community 

36. Taught yourself a new language

37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied? (sometimes)

38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person

39. Gone rock climbing

40. Seen Michelangelo’s David

41. Sung karaoke

42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt

43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant

44. Visited Africa

45. Walked on a beach by moonlight

46. Been transported in an ambulance

47. Had your portrait painted

48. Gone deep sea fishing

49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person

50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris

51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling

52. Kissed in the rain

53. Played in the mud

54. Gone to a drive-in theater

55. Been in a movie

56. Visited the Great Wall of China

57. Started a business

58. Taken a martial arts class

59. Visited Russia 

60. Served at a soup kitchen

61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies

62. Gone whale watching

63. Gotten flowers for no reason

64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma (five gallons so far!)

65. Gone sky diving

66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp

67. Bounced a check

68. Flown in a helicopter

69. Saved a favorite childhood toy

70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial

71. Eaten caviar

72. Pieced a quilt

73. Stood in Times Square

74. Toured the Everglades

75. Been fired from a job

76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London

77. Broken a bone

78. Been on a speeding motorcycle

79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person

80. Published a book

81. Visited the Vatican

82. Bought a brand new car

83. Walked in Jerusalem

84. Had your picture in the newspaper

85. Read the entire Bible (if not the entire, then pretty close to it)

86. Visited the White House

87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating (several types)

88. Had chickenpox

89. Saved someone’s life

90. Sat on a jury

91. Met someone famous

92. Joined a book club

93. Lost a loved one

94. Had a baby

95. Seen the Alamo in person

96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake

97. Been involved in a law suit

98. Owned a cell phone

99. Been stung by a bee

I should make a "Bucket List" but I've accomplished so many things I wanted to do in life...#1 being married and raising a family.  My goal now is to live to be 100 and bug my kids for the rest of my life...Ha! 

 This spring we ordered turkeys---I think we started out with 20---and ended up with five.  We had turkeys several years ago but this time was a whole different experience! 

When they got too big for their pen we put them in the lean-to of the barn until they were old enough to go outside.

They talk to each other and get noisy and sad when they get separated---it's my job to herd them back together.  They began following me around and chirping when I was out in the yard.  They'd wait for me to feed the dogs (they like dog food).   Turkeys are curious and very inquisitive. Then they learned how to fly!

This was cool the first time...even the second and third...but they began to perch on everything.

Roosting on Rick's tractor was a bad plan...

but here is good...

I came home from Bible Study on morning and found them here---fortunately it was the day before I painted the veranda so no damage was done.  But my "groupies" were starting to get too close...

This was the last straw (the hood of our Dakota)!  Kitty prints are cute but these birds have huge claws and can do a lot of damage.  So they've been grounded to the lean-to...but they have figured out how to get into the loft of the barn so they have lots of space---I can go visit them and listen to them chirp but they can't follow me around or scratch up my pick-up.  I've enjoyed my summer with them---it reminded me of having sheep---except for the perching in high places.  Ha! 

 Have a great day! 

   I'm not talking about the weather, though that suddenly changed from summer to fall here Sunday with the last of sunny summer days to a cold, rainy night.  I'm feeling the change from constant motherhood to empty-nester.  It's a positive change---if I've done my job well, of course my kids are going to grow up and fly away, as baby birds always do---and I love my now adult children and will always think of them as my babies (as in: "I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, as long as I'm living, my baby you'll be." - from the book Love You Forever by Robert Munsch).  They will always be the best part of me---my contribution to the future.  And I plan to live to be 100 yrs old so I can bug them all their lives.  But I'm also having fun being just a wife again and sometimes being just me.  Being just me is a new feeling, having more to do with God in my life and overcoming some difficult years of depression and such than it does with the kids being out on their own.  It's just another in a series of changes for the better in my life.  I quit my job in town because I'd rather be home on the farm full-time and not have to "check my schedule" whenever we do want to go somewhere.  I like being able to have time to talk almost anytime the kids call.  And I like being able to go to Bible Study on Tuesday mornings.  I didn't realize it until I quit how uptight I'd gotten about feeling like I was "on-call" from 8am-6pm, six days a week or how I'd quit doing a lot of at-home projects because I didn't want to be called away in the middle of something (so I did nothing).  I'm thankful I can be the at-home cheerleader (and prayer-warrior) for my family.