Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Bucket list

When we were visiting my sister a few weekends ago, she mentioned that someday she'd like to milk a cow.  "That's on my bucket list," she said.   I-daughter immediately pointed out how appropriate that was ("milk a cow" and "bucket", that is), and -- to entertain ourselves on the drive home later -- I-daughter and I came up with the following Bucket List of our own.   Suggestions for additions are welcome!


Bucket List

  • Milk a cow
  • Make maple syrup 
  • Bail out a boat
  • Mix cement
  • Pick peaches
  • Write a limerick about Nantucket*
  • Drum or busk
  • Paint something large
  • Chicken wings and beer
  • Chill champagne
  • Sing the "Dear Liza" song (very annoying)
  • Put out a fire: bucket brigade

* My favorite in this vein:

There was an old man from Nantucket

Who hid all his cash and a bucket.

His daughter, named Nan,

Ran away with a man,

And as for the bucket, Nantucket.

5 comments:

  1. Fun! I'll play!

    * Film a slasher movie (buckets of blood)
    And saved for last:
    * Kick one

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    1. Love 'em! How could we have missed that last one?!?

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  2. Why is the only thing I can think of not fun at all? (Catch leaks from a leaky roof!)

    Oh but we used to catch rain runoff for washing feet out in the countryside in buckets.

    I'm pretty sure I could still fit Smol in a bucket to carry around, I just carried them in a laundry basket today to go do the wash...

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    1. Catching water from a leaking roof is a LOT better than NOT catching it! So says the homeowner who is waiting for a visit from a roofer at this very moment.

      I used to carry my infants in canvas shopping bags. My 4-year-old daughter put our kittens in a lego bucket and "gave" the whole thing as a present to my dad, who got jack-in-the-box startled surprise when he opened he lid. The kitten wasn't pleased with the arrangement, either.

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    2. That's true! I hope the roof is now fixed?

      XD I love that visual of the kitten popping out.

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