Wednesday, January 2, 2013

2013 New Years Resolutions





2013 Resolutions.  The results of 2012 are on the second half of this page.

Improve drainage at home.

Finish reorganizing Garage.

Finish writing family cookbook.

Go fishing

Go hunting

Travel to Margarita Island

Complete first draft of book on being green.

Visit more family back east.

Take over care of backyard from father-in-law.

Re-organize the shed

Improve disaster preparedness.

Take advantage of AARP benefits.

Play in the COHS alumni water polo game.  This will be the last year that it will be played in our original pool.

Attend the COHS Class of 78 reunion.

Get more active: Hiking or swimming.

Canning:
Trade with more people that can
Make chili beans and soup. 
Add to methods of canning such as freezing and using wax

Update Bearfamily.com/green page

Create Bearfamily.com/preparedness page

Be More Green:

Plant more ginger, herbs, lettuce ...

Increase the number of LED lights in use.

Better composting


Recap of 2012 resolutions:

Clean Garage. Mostly Done, replaced the cement in the floor of the garage and laundry room, including a drainage system.  Installed shelving, almost done going through the entire contents.

Tear out gazebo and build new deck in the back yard. Done, we also put in a new deck.

Improve disaster preparedness. Done.

Get an AARP card.  Done

Play in the COHS alumni water polo game.  Done and wore t-shirt designed by Gumby.

Seeing more COHS friends.  Done

Get more active: Hiking or swimming.  Failed

Improve our financial situation (reduce debt)  Done

Canning: Trade with more people that can; make: spaghetti sauce, soup. Add to methods of canning such as freezing and using wax.  Failed,  I made spaghetti sauce and I traded, but just a little.  Need to do more.  Did not do any freezing or canning with was.

Be More Green:

Plant more ginger, herbs, lettuce ... Fail

Increase the number of LED lights in use.  Done

Better composting  Faile

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