Summer is over.

Year nine of my 100 Days of Summer Bucket List again helped me fill the summer days with beautiful people and memories, so I must not be sad. Despite a few hiccups (Miles’ accident and Hurricane Fiona) and detours (Quebec for Nationals), I am thrilled to have completed 87/100 items, even if some are slight improvises on the originals. Hey! It’s my list, and I can do what I want!

So grab a warm blanket and a hot bevy and enjoy a recap. Looking back, I feel very lucky.

100 Days of Summer 2022

1. Take a dip in a lake, in the river, in the ocean
2. Make a pie at least once every month
3. Hike the Mi’kmawey Debert Interpretive Trail
4. Hike to the Carbide Willson Ruins
5. Dip my toes into Halifax Harbour at the staircase
6. Run to the Bike and Bean
7. Have a picnic
8. Go trail running
9. Cook campfire Kraft Dinner
10. Meet Jill for a lunch walk
11. Bike to Tatamagouche on the trail
12. Eat s’mores
13. Leave the province
14. Enjoy some Cape Breton pastries
15. Visit a lavender farm
16. Dilly dally over to Dilly Dally on Sarah’s lunch break
17. Bike around the city
18. Paddleboard
19. Run the Muffin Run
20. Run the Cabot Trail
21. Swing off the river rope
22. Jump off Flat Rock
23. Join the #tinyheartclub
24. Skip practice, go to Garrison for a beer! 
25. Stand outside in a summer rainstorm
26. Sleep in a tent
27. Set out on a walk – meet a friend halfway
28. Check-off one thing on the Fifty Before Fifty list
29. Eat at the Willard, Fox Harb’r
30. Go for a beach walk
31. Night swim
32. Swim in my aunt’s pond
33. Ontario wine tasting
34. Go sailing
35. Work outside
36. Visit Sara Bonnyman Pottery in Tatamagouche
37. Make jam or marmalade
38. Neighbourhood stalk a new neighbourhood
39. Stroll along the waterfront
40. Read a book on the beach
41. Have a post-run Farmer’s Market date
42. Play croquet
43. Explore new parts of Victoria Park
44. Host a backyard social
45. Get gelato from the Gelato Bike
46. Pre-work plunge in the lake
47. Post-work plunge in the lake
48. Go for a run and jump in the water right after
49. Eat a lobster roll
50. Eat fish tacos
51. Have a lunch date at Luke’s
52. Have a brunch date
53. Play hooky
54. Make a Dirty Shirley
55. Go to Top Gun: Maverick
56. Visit Birchtown, Nova Scotia
57. Visit the Noel Shore, Nova Scotia
58. Yoga outside
59. Discover a new beach (Mavillette?)
60. Get 10,000 steps every day
61. Sow wildflower and lupin seeds at the property
62. Cheer loudly at a race
63. See Shakespeare By The Sea *Went to a play at Neptune instead.
64. Go prom watching at the Public Gardens
65. Road trip with friends
66. Take a ferry
67. Run along the Rideau Canal
68. Run and jump off a dock without knowing the temperature of the water
69. Go to a drive-in movie
70. Go to a Wanderers game
71. Go to a Roughriders game
72. Visit the ocean after work
73. Camp on our property
74. Only use the clothesline
75. Wild Piquette in a can!
76. Rent a cottage
77. Drive dad’s side-by-side
78. Snorkel (or learn to scuba dive) with David
79. Paint furniture
80. Apply sunscreen, daily
81. Buy fresh flowers every week
82. Squeeze lemons, make lemonade
83. Bike across the MacDonald Bridge to Dartmouth
84. Bike across the Alexandria Bridge to Quebec
85. Make Ricotta Cheesecake with Strawberry-Rhubarb Compote
86. Eat from a food truck
87. Try vegetable dyeing
88. Visit Tatamagouche Ice Creamery (at least once)
89. Drift down a river
90. Go berry picking
91. Go whale watching
92. Go on a Ghost Walking Tour
93. Ride the waterslides at the Waeg
94. Yard sale or have a yard sale
95. Take a “lunch” walk – get fresh air (daily!)
96. Organize and play a night game (not game night)
97. Dole Whip at the Chicken Burger
98. Watch the sunrise at the ocean
99. Watch the sunset at the ocean
100. Watch 500 Days of Summer

I always hope this inspires others to create their own version – I am already looking forward to year ten!

Here are my lists from 2021, 2020, 2019 2018, 2017, 2016,  2015, 2014