I will not be killing anything living, unless maybe an invasive species overtaking my yard.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nHere is The List, as it stands, in no particular order.\u00a0 Please send me email with your ideas; I’d love to hear.\u00a0 And remember,\u00a0 easily accessible is good.<\/p>\n
I will keep The List updated, with a link in the sidebar at right.<\/p>\n
The list<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Shoot a gun.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Make Italian wedding soup.<\/li>\n
- Visit the Ohio Statehouse.<\/li>\n
- See the Pizzuti Collection in Downtown Columbus.<\/li>\n
- Visit the newly renovated Columbus Museum of Art.<\/li>\n
- Master the making of a pie crust.<\/li>\n
- Learn how to tie a tie.<\/li>\n
- Make ravioli.<\/li>\n
- Visit Cedar Bog in spring.<\/li>\n
- Change a tire.<\/li>\n
- Grow plants from seed.<\/li>\n
- Get better at bird IDs, especially from sound.<\/li>\n
- Learn to drive manual transmission.<\/li>\n
- Play in the fountain Downtown.<\/li>\n
- Create a blog.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Take a ride in a hot air balloon.<\/li>\n
- Make deviled eggs.<\/li>\n
- Try archery.<\/li>\n
- Work the polls.<\/li>\n
- Put up a yard sign.<\/li>\n
- Create a native garden in Florida.<\/li>\n
- Try running.<\/li>\n
- Get my bike back in working order.<\/li>\n
- See a panther in the wild.<\/li>\n
- See a skunk, alive, in Ohio.<\/li>\n
- Play paintball.<\/li>\n
- Sleep in a treehouse (Mohican state forest).<\/li>\n
- See Rocky Horror Picture Show at Studio 35.<\/li>\n
- Go to a baseball game at Huntington Park.<\/li>\n
- See the Blue Jackets play.<\/li>\n
- Take a jewelry-making class.<\/li>\n
- Start a writing group.<\/li>\n
- Rewrite my book.<\/li>\n
- Write an illustrated children\u2019s book.<\/li>\n
- Exercise daily.<\/li>\n
- Bake challah.<\/li>\n
- Harvest watercress.<\/li>\n
- Pick coffee beans.<\/li>\n
- Try haggis.<\/li>\n
- Baby-sit.<\/li>\n
- Take a Photoshop class.<\/li>\n
- Take a carpentry class.<\/li>\n
- Visit all the Metro Parks.<\/li>\n
- Go to Ohio Village.<\/li>\n
- Read one of the original Nancy Drews and compare to the modern version. Read a Hardy Boys.<\/li>\n
- Watch at least five of the Oscar nominees.<\/li>\n
- Learn to fold napkins in fancy shapes.<\/li>\n
- Make cards for an event.<\/li>\n
- Take a painting class.<\/li>\n
- Make Christmas ornaments.<\/li>\n
- Have an estate sale.<\/li>\n
- Take a Segway tour of Columbus.<\/li>\n
- Visit the casino in Columbus.<\/li>\n
- Study gemology.<\/li>\n
- Look for fallen deer antlers.<\/li>\n
- Vanquish the weeds in our garden.<\/li>\n
- Tour the Supreme Court Building in Columbus.<\/li>\n
- Make a wind chime.<\/li>\n
- Take a pottery class.<\/li>\n
- Visit Washington, D.C., as a tourist to see newer museums.<\/li>\n
- Drive around the Great Lakes.<\/li>\n
- Serve on a board of an organization.<\/li>\n
- Learn to play bridge or poker.<\/li>\n
- Learn CPR.<\/li>\n
- Take a class at Glass Axis.<\/li>\n
- Try tai chi or kickboxing.<\/li>\n
- Go to jazz night at the Clintonville Women\u2019s Club.<\/li>\n
- Try pilates.<\/li>\n
- Tour the Harry London Chocolate Factory.<\/li>\n
- Visit the First Ladies\u2019 Library in Canton.<\/li>\n
- Hike Hocking Hills in winter.<\/li>\n
- Take dance classes. Salsa? Ballroom?<\/li>\n
- Visit the Kent Bog.<\/li>\n
- Audition for a local production.<\/li>\n
- Make a nest box.<\/li>\n
- See the bats in Austin, Texas.<\/li>\n
- Drive to Florida and count the sex shops and spas on the way.<\/li>\n
- Visit Cranberry Bog.<\/li>\n
- Stay in one of those odd hotels, like the Dog Bark Inn.<\/li>\n
- Visit Rock City.<\/li>\n
- Visit the Rock Hall of Fame.<\/li>\n
- See Stan Hywet at Christmas.<\/li>\n
- Make cookies for no reason.<\/li>\n
- Master my mother\u2019s raisin cookies.<\/li>\n
- Go horseback riding.<\/li>\n
- Get published in the NYT.<\/li>\n
- Buy and master a DSLR camera.<\/li>\n
- Take a class in flower arranging.<\/li>\n
- Go indoor skydiving.<\/li>\n
- Swim under a waterfall.<\/li>\n
- Visit the Hawaiian Islands I\u2019ve not yet seen.<\/li>\n
- Go to Mammoth Cave.<\/li>\n
- Get used to a different kind of employment.<\/li>\n
- Make my own tea.<\/li>\n
- Finish the drapes for the kitchen.<\/li>\n
- Learn to knit.<\/li>\n
- Learn to carve.<\/li>\n
- \u00a0Clean the house fully, including windows, closets, walls.<\/li>\n
- \u00a0Cook meals daily for a week.<\/li>\n
- Look for skunk cabbage.<\/span><\/li>\n
- . Go to the family reunion in 2017.<\/li>\n
- Take a load of goods to a Native American school.<\/li>\n
- Lead a tour.<\/li>\n
- Eat for an entire week on gift cards.<\/li>\n
- Learn to sail.<\/li>\n
- Learn origami.<\/li>\n
- Do a police ride along.<\/li>\n
- Learn how to do makeup.<\/li>\n
- Make soap.<\/li>\n
- Take a self-defense class.<\/li>\n
- Hold a mystery dinner.<\/li>\n
- Try pole dancing.<\/li>\n
- Visit the Smokies.<\/li>\n
- Try kite surfing.<\/li>\n
- Pan for gold.<\/li>\n
- Look for diamonds.<\/li>\n
- Try a stand-up paddleboard.<\/li>\n
- Go Zorbing.<\/li>\n
- Go clamming.<\/li>\n
- See the redwoods.<\/li>\n
- Sleep at the Ice Hotel.<\/li>\n
- Get back into yoga regularly.<\/li>\n
- Hunt for morels.<\/li>\n
- Meet the soup Nazi.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Get my nails done.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Take the trance dance class.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Have a waterfall tour in Ohio.<\/li>\n
- Get back into swimming.<\/li>\n
- Catch up with friends.<\/li>\n
- Find the Riverboxes of Dublin.<\/li>\n
- Visit the kettle lake near Ravenna.<\/li>\n
- Visit Newport Aquarium.<\/li>\n
- Visit Berea, Kenucky.<\/li>\n
- Visit Yellowstone.<\/li>\n
- Visit the Grand Canyon. Hike the north rim.<\/li>\n
- Have a wine-tour, covered-bridge weekend in Ohio.<\/li>\n
- Visit the Biosphere in Arizona.<\/li>\n
- Visit a defunct missile site.<\/li>\n
- Visit Ohio\u2019s remaining prairies when in bloom.<\/li>\n
- Visit the Grand Canyon of the east.<\/li>\n
- Take scuba classes.<\/li>\n
- Go to New River for Bridge Day.<\/li>\n
- See Hoover Dam and take the hard-hat tour.<\/li>\n
- Take a riverboat down the Mississippi or Columbia.<\/li>\n
- Take a train trip across Canada.<\/li>\n
- See the 2017 eclipse from Kentucky.<\/li>\n
- Try a pogo stick.<\/li>\n
- Start a fire with just sticks.<\/li>\n
- Master a hula hoop.<\/li>\n
- Sign up for PreCheck.<\/li>\n
- Visit the OSU Labyrinth.<\/li>\n
- Feed a hummingbird from hand.<\/li>\n
- Visit Costa Rica or Belize.<\/li>\n
- Visit the Miller Sanctuary in Highland County.<\/li>\n
- Take a wildlife safari in Africa.<\/li>\n
- Visit Nova Scotia.<\/li>\n
- Visit Channel Islands National Park.<\/li>\n
- Visit Glacier National Park.<\/li>\n
- Have a meal at Per Se.<\/li>\n
- Go on the Maid of the Mist at Niagara Falls.<\/li>\n
- Go to the top of the Statue of Liberty.<\/li>\n
- Visit the St. Louis Arch.<\/li>\n
- Visit the 9\/11 sites in Pennsylvania, New York and D.C.<\/li>\n
- Hike several days on the Florida or Appalachian Trails.<\/li>\n
- Go to Skydeck in Chicago.<\/li>\n
- Eat a pick-your-own mango.<\/li>\n
- Sleep in a fire lookout.<\/li>\n
- Camp several days at Dry Tortugas.<\/li>\n
- See Manson\u2019s hideout in Death Valley.<\/li>\n
- Camp at the Gila Cliff Dwellings.<\/li>\n
- Visit the Monterey Bay Aquarium.<\/li>\n
- See the Anza-Borrego in bloom.<\/li>\n
- Visit Woodhenge and Stonehenge.<\/li>\n
- Sleep in a lighthouse.<\/li>\n
- Visit a working sugar shack.<\/li>\n
- Visit the Plains during crane migration season.<\/li>\n
- See a wild pangolin.<\/li>\n
- See a resplendent quetzal in the wild.<\/li>\n
- Visit Antarctica.<\/li>\n
- See a wild sloth.<\/li>\n
- See a wild bear in Florida.<\/li>\n
- Watch bears feed during a salmon run.<\/li>\n
- Visit Alaska.<\/li>\n
- See the northern lights.<\/li>\n
- Paddle in a bayou.<\/li>\n
- Find a Venus flytrap in the wild,<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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