40 Before 40: 7/2011 update

• Write letters to five old friends
• Clean and organize the basement
• Go to Ikea
• Learn to cook fish
• Hike to "the A" from home
• Decorate the master bedroom
  
• Make rhubarb jam
• Learn how to french braid
• Set up a composting station rain barrel (turns out we don't eat enough compostable food to make it worth it... how sad is that?
  
• Lose 50 lbs (so easy to type... so hard to do) haven't checked lately... can't be a good sign!
  
• Make a throw pillow
• Drink a Bloody Mary
• Learn how to silkscreen t-shirts
• Throw a party
• Go to Rocky Mountain National Park for elk bugling
• Buy/build a firepit
• Make a multilayer birthday cake (maybe this one...)
• Read a book a month one more week to finish Savvy by Ingrid Law
  
• Have a garage sale scheduled for August 13th
  
• Go to a concert at Red Rocks
• Find a "uniform" that works for me
• Topdress and reseed backyard Done!! reseeding not necessary! woohoo!
• Paint remaining natural wood trim
• Watch all of the James Bond movies
• Get a haircut (this? or maybe this? no really... this.)
• Make a snow angel (with gusto)
• Sew a skirt
• Plant raspberries plans are made... now it's all about convincing Mr. K to help build the raised bed
  
• Do five anonymous good deeds (1) not anonymous but I let the harried mom with 3 tired kids get in line ahead of me at WalMart... WalMart!! - I may deserve the Nobel Peace Prize for that one :)
  
• Paint barn and shed
• Make a new friend her name is Heather, her husband is deployed right now, and where did I meet her? At the pool. I have good luck with pool mom friends!
  
• Prune trees Done!! The yard looks so much better!
  
• Make something out of our sheep's wool (maybe something like this)
  
• Visit Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield
• Learn to make good miso soup
  
• Buy and plant a redleaf rose
• Save $500 per month towards the Alaska vacation fund Pay for new roof
  
• Get a pedicure
• Clean and organize laundry room
• Get a new camera and take more pictures than I have been