It's that time of the year, again :-D

 It's 1st of August, the first day of my Autumn, Eve of Lammas. 

I'll try to tick off posts from my Bucket List - which you know is massive and in all ways rather stupid :-D - as I suffer from "Texas complex". Everything must be bigger and better and HYOUGE!!! 

So I have all kinds of things on my list, totally in spite of how realistic, rational, and reasonable any of them is. 

Now when I'm over 50, I have started to think that perhaps I could adjust my list to my circumstances, being that I'm not a North American 20-something. I'm past my child-bearing years, and I have no interest in visiting all of the United States, for example.

But - following the lead from the last effort of reaching a goal every day of a year, I'll follow the "national days" calendar etc. 

Also, the next three months, I'm trying to do my "Autumn Bucket List".

1) Write an Autumn bucket list

2) write a list of 92 things you love/like about autumn

1. Of course, the colors of Autumn leaves
2. Crispy air
3. Wind
4. Rain
5. Foraging - berries, mushroom, fruit
6. Back to school - school supplies
7. Autumn fashion; the preppy 40s style English country
8. Soup and freshly baked bread
9. Apples
10. Forest - follow a path
11. Hygge
12. The melancholy Autumn songs and music
13. Comfort food
14. Cuddling in a chair with a cat, blanket, a good book, and a cup of something warm
15. Harvest, all the root vegetables, cabbage etc.
16. Autumn flowers
17. Playing in the leaves
18. Calmness, peace, serenity
19. Lughnasadh
20. Mabon
21. Crayfish party
22. Rosh Hashanah
23. Mid-Autumn Festival
24. Oktoberfest
25. Hobbit Day
26. Halloween
27. Baking spiced things, like spice cookies, cinnamon buns, spice cake, carrot cake, pumpkin pie...
28. Mulled wine and apple cider
29. Cinnamon
30. Soft chunky socks
31. Community college / civic college / Worker's Institute courses start (or what ever it's called in English)
32. Homemaking
33. Books, especially cozy mysteries and children's books
34. Stars come out (I live in the Midnight Sun area. We don't see stars during the summer.)
35. Long cozy dinners 
36. Light through the windows
37. Game nights
38. Mist
39. Nesting
40. Cats
41. New beginnings
42. Layering clothes
43. Storms
44. Writing
45. Pumpkin spice
46. Knit stockings
47. Sweaters
48. Tweed
49. Knit tams
50. Salted caramel
51. Caramel apples
52. Candy corn
53. Pumpkins
54. Confort food; stews and casseroles
55. Roasted vegetables, roasted meat
56. Pie
57. Streusel cake
58. Afghans and blankets
59. Boots
60. Tartan
61. Peacoats
62. Apple cider doughnuts
63. Fire; fireplace, campfire
64. Chestnuts
65. Sunsets
66. Sunrise with the glistening frost
67. TV season starts
68. Chili and biscuits
69. Hikes
70. Chai lattes
71. Tights and skirts
72. Corduroy
73. Smoke
74. Lazy brunches
75. Trains
76. Scavenger hunts
77. Geocaching
78. Cooking, especially slow cooking complicated recipes and many course dinners
79. Canning, preserving
80. Gratitude
81. Puzzles
82. Museums
83. Too cold for bugs, warm enough to be outside and enjoy the sun
84. Bike rides
85. Crafting season, knitting, crocheting, sewing...

The best part of today was when my cat went behind the washing machine - it had moved away from the corner enough for her to get behind it - and was purring loudly, and the washing machine was amplifying the purring :-D It sounded as if the washing machine was purring. I love that silly cat.