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Fall Bucket List Update #1

My current completion 10/35 28.6%

  1. Enjoy a PSL -- Always have to indulge a few times.
  2. Go to a pumpkin patch
  3. Buy some proper cider  -- I bought some cider at Target. Unfortunately, I bought spiced cider and it's a little too orange-y for my tastes. I'll have to pick up some more at another store.
  4. Bake pumpkin bread -- One loaf down, I imagine I will make a few more before Christmas.
  5. Make stuffed acorn squash -- Always love this recipe, but can only make it in the fall when the acorn squash is ripe.
  6. Carve a pumpkin
  7. Make a fall craft with Arthur
  8. Read some scary books -- I'm participating in Seasons of Reading's FrightFall Readathon. I've read:
    1. 8.4 by Peter Hernon (earthquake thriller)
    2. Secondhand Spirits by Juliet Blackwell (supernatural cozy mystery)
  9. Pick up some fall themed tea: Apple spiced or pumpkin flavor
  10. Take pictures of the changing leaf colors
  11. Make chili and cornbread -- It will be back on the meal plan soon.
  12. Find two new fall soup recipes
  13. Watch Shaun of the Dead for Halloween
  14. Visit a corn maze
  15. Bake fall cookies
  16. Make leaf art
  17. Pick up some fall nail polish (and actually do my nails!)
  18. Go apple picking
  19. Bake an apple pie
  20. Make mulled wine
  21. Plan and cook Thanksgiving
  22. Read Kids Books
    1. Fall
      1. The Autumn Equinox by Ellen Jackson
      2. My Leaf Book by Monica Wellington
      3. WonderFall by Michael Hall
      4. Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn by Kenard Pak
      5. Fall by Kay Barnham
      6. An Apple's Life by Nancy Dickman
      7. Autumn by Stephanie Hedlund
      8. Leaves Fall Down by Lisa Bullard
      9. Kitten's Autumn by Eugenie Fernandes
      10. The Autumn Leaf by Carl Emerson
      11. Who Loves the Fall? by Bob Raczka
      12. Autumn Leaves by Ken Robbins
      13. Little Elliot Fall Friends by Mike Curato
    2. Halloween
      1. Countdown to Halloween by Patricia Reeder Eubank
      2. Click, Clack, Boo! by Doreen Cronin
    3. Thanksgiving
  23. Decorate the front porch
  24. Buy some pumpkin ale -- I grabbed Leinenkugel's Autumn Shandy. Decent, but I will have to find something else.
  25. Go on a hayride
  26. Celebrate Halloween with costumes and trick-or-treating
  27. Pick up a fall candle -- I grabbed a yummy smelling Orchard candle from Glade. It reminds me of pumpkin and bonfires.
  28. Read a cozy mystery -- I finished Secondhand Spirits by Juliet Blackwell this week. I loved it! Will have to pick up the next book in the series.
  29. Make a scarecrow
  30. Make homemade sauerkraut
  31. Toast pumpkin seeds
  32. Have a Monster Mash dance party
  33. Create Halloween and Thanksgiving cocktails
  34. Watch It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown
  35. Have a Resident Evil marathon

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