My 14 Goals For 2024 – Week 23 of 52

 

Eat More Fruits and Vegetables

It was another great week for fruits and vegetables! I am beginning to wonder if I am going to miss out on the most important season of all… Fruit pie season.

Strawberry rhubarb pie is calling my name. But I have no rhubarb to pick, local berries OR the most important thing… A pie dish! Finding the pie dish will be priority #1 after we move in.

Visit 24 {new} Bakeries / Coffee Shops

We visited a new bakery!! And it’s a good one too. I’m looking forward to telling you more about it in a day or two. 🙂 🙂 🙂 

New Bakeries / Coffee Shops I’ve Been To This Year {That I liked}

• The Cookie Jar Pastry Shop
• Ritual Bakehouse and Patisserie
• Caramel Patisserie
• Standard Baking Co. 
• Saltwater Farm Cafe
• Coffee Roasters of the Kennebunks
• Farine Bakery and Cafe

Go On An Adventure

No adventures for me this past week, but the HH did hop a flight to California to visit a friend. He was SHOCKED at the price of gas there… Over $6 a gallon. He said it was even higher close to the airport {$6.79}. That is bananas!! 

Here in Maine gas is around $3.50 a gallon right now.

Contribute to 12 Free Little Libraries. {6 town down, 6 to go}

No Free little library donations this past week.

Towns I’ve donated books to:

• Gardiner, Maine
• Nobleboro, Maine
• Kennebunk and Kennebunkport, Maine
• Cape Elizabeth, Maine
• Raymond, Maine
• Bellevue, Washington

Read or Listen to 24 Books {7 down, 17 to go}

A tree in the house by Annabelle Hickson. Have you seen it? I think I need it. I thumbed through the pages when I was in a gift shop the other day and I think I’m going to go back a buy it. Gardening books… They suck me in everytime.

Books I’ve Read or Listened To This Year: 

• Grateful American: A Journey from Self to Service by Gary Sinise. 10/10
• Elizabeth The Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch by Sally Bedell Smith 9/10
• Wait Till Next Year by Dorris Kearns Goodwin 8/10
• George VI and Elizabet:by Sally Bedell Smith 9/10
• Steve Jobs by Walter Issacson 9/10
• These Precious Days by Ann Pachett 9.5/10
• Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson

Spend More Time At The Beach

It was a good week for walking at the beach. Lucy found a few more crusty crabs to snack on and I found a few pieces of driftwood to keep. 

 

Paint 

I think I’m about 90% of the way finished with my latest paint by number kit. It’s a big one {24” x 36”} and so far it’s looking like the real deal.  Once I get it finished, I plan on hopping on an airplane and visiting the site. 🙂 Yee-Haw!

So far I’ve finished:

• Portrait of Joseph Roulin 
• Red Boats at Argenteuil
• Regattas at Argenteuil
• Vase with Cornflowers and Poppies 
• Sunflowers
• Garden Path with Chickens
• Goldfish

Hook 6 “Big” Rugs.

I started a new rug… And I’m nearly finished. And although it’s not super huge, I think it will qualify as a “big”rug.

Large Rugs I’ve Hooked This Year

• Three Roosters
• Hidden In The Garden 
• Yankee Doodle

Visit 6 Greenhouses {that I’ve never been to before}.

No visits to any greenhouses this past week, but I already know which one I want to go to first. 

Grow Baby Grow

The airbnb we are staying at has a peony plant in the backyard and it has me missing all 9 {NINE!!} of the beautiful peony plants I had at the last place. I hope the new owners are enjoying them.

I haven’t made any final decisions yet, but I think I will be planting a boatload of peonies at the new place. The garden will be a bit of a challenge, and I really have to get it right because there won’t be room for error. But peonies are #2 on my list of must have plants. We’ll see. 

Donate to 12 Different Organizations in Maine

We finally made it up to Camp Sunshine to drop off our donation of 9,000 pipe cleaners and 3,000 googly eyes. The grounds are spectacular and I’m so glad this place exists.

I’ve decided where I’ll be donating to for June, and I’m looking forward to making my donation next week. In the mean time, I’ve continued picking up trash along the shoreline. It’s amazing what people drop/leave behind!

So Far This Year I’ve Donated To:

• Cleaning Up My Local Beach
• New Hope MidCoast {50 pairs of new socks}
• Humane Society {180 trays of cat food}
• Travis Mills Foundation
• Camp Sunshine

So how are YOUR goals for 2024 coming along? I’d love to hear about them. 

~Mavis

Goals I’ve Already Completed This Year

In Stock and Ready to Ship by March 15th/ March 30th Now April 15th DONE!

I finally finished up all the major wool dyeing and pattern/kit making I had hoped too. All the “extra” wool is tucked away in bins so if I run out of wool in my Etsy shop I can whip up some more bundles in a jiffy. A summer off from dyeing wool… It’s going to be pretty rad.

Tidy Up / Clean Out / Purge DONE

We cleaned the whole house, inside and out. And then we sold it. Yee-Haw!

• Barn
• Garage
• Closets 
• Dresser drawers
• Kitchen 
• Sideboard
• DVD collection