Summer Goals.

I love to write up goals each summer to make sure and accomplish fun things. Here are the past three year's goals.

This year's list includes:
1. Plant lots of herbs into landscape- We'd like to try to incorporate more useful plants along with the ornamental ones.
2. Get berries into their permanent spot in the yard- We're trying to establish an 'orchard' of sorts but couldn't decide where to put the berries we got last year so they've been in large pots for now.
3. Go camping- Now that we have a truck we want to load it up with bikes, the portable stove, etc and get out there especially before it gets too hot.
4. Take a bike trip- We want to ride to a nearby-ish town and stay the night then ride home the next day.  Its about 50 miles each way so we've got to plan accordingly.
5. Drive in movie- Again, we've got the truck now so its the perfect drive-in car.
6. Keep track of garden harvest- I don't know how realistic this is, but I'd like to weigh each harvest to get a total count at years end. Along with weight a general count would be nice, ie. 12 tomatoes, 350 bush beans... I'd like to use these metrics to improve upon our garden next year and also for curiosity's sake.
7. Make my own hot sauce- Each year I like to try a few new preserving recipes or methods, this year hot sauces are calling my name.
8. Sun dry tomatoes- I dehydrated lots of tomatoes last year, they are awesome for quickly adding to most any recipe.  Actually sun drying them would be cool to try this year.
9. Dry herbs- All sorts of herbs, for tea, for cooking- they are so much nicer than store bought especially when you're using them in the middle of winter.