Progress Report: Summer Plans

Turns out, my list of summer fun may have been a bit too ambitious. Or rather, it wouldn't have been too ambitious had we not decided to have our house market-ready by the end of this month. Yeah, so there's that.

Let's take a look at where we are. I've crossed out the completed ones...

• Make sushi

Update: I'm working on it...

• Play horseshoes/frisbee/bocce at Laurelhurst park

• Visit the International Rose Test Garden

• Go swimming

• Take a picnic to the Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden

• See the lava dome at Mt. St. Helens

• Visit the farmers market

• Finally start those tango/salsa lessons we've been discussing for months

Update: HA HA HA HA HAAAAAA! Since I can't "follow", this is probably never going to happen.

• Potluck (possibly themed) at our house (I'm thinking fried catfish, hush puppies, corn bread...)

Update: When we get the place on the market, we're going to have a "housecooling" party for everyone. Just promise not to trash the place...

• Visit Steens Mountain and yes, camp. Possibly.

• Zoo concerts! (Keb' Mo' and Rodrigo y Gabriela have particularly caught my eye)

• Lounge on the back patio with a mint julep or a negroni...or just campari on the rocks and a good book

Update: Well, I'm teetotalling this week, but golly, that sounds good. AND the final Harry Potter comes out on Friday. That might warrant -one- drink.

• See to the Red Headed Stranger on a hot night in July

• Consume rosé...perhaps on the patio, with a good book

• Bike the Springwater rail

• Go to a Portland Beavers game

• And of course, knit. When I have time.

Update: Well, duh.

All things considered, this ain't too bad. Especially since we've completed the following tasks on the house:

• New paint and trim in the master bedroom
• New paint, trim, and fixtures in the bathrooms
  
• Built new step for the French doors onto the patio
• Planted 53495834958 backyard plants (roses, hydrangeas, azalea, rhododendron, day lilies, bayberry, petunias, and various other shrubs) in our unusually large yard
  
• Spread 6 bags of barkdust (still not finished there)
• Emptied our closets of excess crap (Thank you, Goodwill)

And that list isn't nearly as long as we were tired completing them. Here's what's still left:

• New lights in the bedrooms
• New range hood and drip pans
• New doorknobs for bathrooms
• New doorknob for front door
• New pavers on patio
• Prune the front yard

Yeah, I don't want to know how much we've spend at Home Despot in the past six months. I could check my bank account, but then I'll just start to weep uncontrollably...

Know anyone in the market for a townhouse blocks from Mt. Tabor?