If you saw last year’s feature movie “The Bucket List”, you’ll recognize that term as one for an end-of-your-life list of the things you want to do, places you want to go, and accomplishments that you meant to get to before life always got in the way. While it is an important topic, given that the July 4th weekend is coming up my mind has drifted to more of the Sand Bucket type of list. As in, I will have 6 straight days off and I can do anything I want, so what would make me happy and relaxed (and it isn’t mopping the kitchen floor!!).
So here is mine. And I would love to hear what is on your (Sand) Bucket List for a great, calming vacation:
1. Read a thought-provoking book
2. Take a nap with at least one cat on my lap
3. Take a nap with my husband
4. Walk in a neighborhood I haven’t been in yet and strike up a conversation with someone there
5. Go to the beach and feel the sand between my toes and make a sand castle
6. Pick a bouquet of flowers out of my garden and present it to someone who doesn’t expect it
7. Do some yard work for an elderly neighbor who can’t do it herself
8. Try a recipe I haven’t made yet
9. Hand-write out my Christmas Cards (who has time to do that in December? Why not do it with a Pina Colada in your hand?)
10. Come back to work refreshed, smiling and happy to welcome my customers
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As a friend and former neighbor of Susan’s, I wanted to let her customers know (as if you needed any reassurance…) that this gal is the real deal. Yesterday I received my “Christmas card in July” — compete with snow covered house and a pine wreath on the door. It put a smile on my face, and the sweltering heat of the Southern California summer seemed to vanish in an instant.
Thank you, Susan — for always giving us what we NEED!