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We'll see how much I can cross off this years list of goals to keep me busy. Here's what I got so far (In no real order).
1. Get a set of Teepee poles (And use them in July)
2. Ride the Cathrine Valley Trail on my bicycle at least once
3. Hike Watkins Glen, Treeman, and Taughannock Gorges at least once
4. Go sailing on Seneca lake at least once
5. Try to find a VW Westfalia and take it camping at some State parks
6. go cross-country skiing/ snow-shoeing
7. learn one song, clawhammer style, on the banjo
8. learn one song on the fiddle
9. have a classic car in good enough shape to participate in the Watkins Glen Vintage Grand Prix festival in Sept.
10. clean out a lot of clutter
11. come up with, and make some woodcraft/art/sculpture/ old time game or something like that to give to friends and family and sell
12. anything else I think of later to add..........
What you all you guys and gals wanna do this year?
 
Ben - that is one heck of a list. Congrats on pulling so many great ideas together and making them your goals.

I think my big item for 2012, is to make it to 2013!

Honestly, I'd still like to take my ol' Mercedes-Benz for a good long drive when the weather is better. The Benz, and me, are not quite in good enough shape to travel. (Tho' I think for the time being, the Benz is slightly better.)

Great list!
Tom
 
Shoot Ben, you should have that done by ground hogs day
 
Some of my items may sound lofty, but are actually rather simple. The Cathrine Valley Trail for instance is only 11 miles long. 22 if you go to one end and back. Watkins Glen is only a couple of miles long as are the others. the point is that I live in the middle of a beautiful area of the country, surrounded by amazing and beautiful geological features and other natural things to experience, and here I sit on my tush all year never going to enjoy any of them.
I could get a lot done by spring, and some of it is to be done before then, but a lot of it is for this summer and fall too.
Tom, here's wishing you get to more fun things this year than you even hope for.May you and your Blauer Engle take many flights of fantasy together.God Bless.
So who else has some goals this year?
 
Started today. Clean off the two tables my wife has asked me to clean for the past six months. Clean out pole shed, get studio finished and have TR6 ready to sell in Feb. Finish POS Cobra kit that belongs to bro-n-law. Got one table done, other 1/4. Gottas get 6 years worth of dirt. oil funk and rust stains off of a plastic foling table. Gotta be clean enough to put greenware on. Got the first one done. Cuttting all dead weight, relationships included. If it's in my way, unused, a buzz kill or negative....no soup for you.


Most of all, do my best to be the husband she deserves. (It'll never happen but gotta make the effort.)
 
Finish my shed/garage.
Get GT6 engine, trans, and diff installed in the spit. Rebuild as needed
Take at least one leg of my planned "big trip"
lose 40#'s
get out more
be thankful for and enjoy all my family and friends and show it better
reach a 1000 posts on BCF
 
1. Pretend I have a 67 Jag EType in the garage and actually get it finished!
 
My wife and I keep a notebook of things we want to do. It's split between things we want, places we want to go and projects we want to work on. It's nice because it's a combination wish list and list of memories of the things we have done. It also periodically saves my butt when I need to find something for her (e.g. where to take her to dinner on her birthday, what she really wanted for Christmas, etc).

I'm knocking #1 of the year off the list. Blockwalled in an old doorway and using the new wall space to do some much needed rewiring. While the sheetrock is down we're adding surround sound cabling, networking and a clean antenna/cable connection. Then we'll mount the TV to the wall.

Jody
 
My Past will be my greatest asset for my future.

I used to say, SOMEday I'll do this and Someday I'll do that.
BUT I have found that my list of someday Isle are over.

Lets see what have I accomplished so far:
Had 2 girls and promised they would never see me under the influence of Drugs or Alcohol.
Promised each one of the boys they brought home, that if anything EVER happend
to them that I did not like, that I would not be affraid to go BACK to jail.
Have taken my family on those type of vacations that you only read about in travel magazines (2X's)
Taken my bride on a Alaska Inside Passage Cruise and had dinner with a pod of whales swimming next to us while we ate.
Raised 2 really good daughters that I am very proud of.
Had 600 HP toys to play with.
Managed to teach my daughters that stability and honesty in life is important.
Get through the rough stuff one day at a time.

I don't know what I could add to the next year, but I am sure that I am in for quite a ride.
 
I think i will just recycle last years list.....

m
 
CZ_Dave said:
My Past will be my greatest asset for my future.

I used to say, SOMEday I'll do this and Someday I'll do that.
BUT I have found that my list of someday Isle are over.

Lets see what have I accomplished so far:
Had 2 girls and promised they would never see me under the influence of Drugs or Alcohol.
Promised each one of the boys they brought home, that if anything EVER happend
to them that I did not like, that I would not be affraid to go BACK to jail.
Have taken my family on those type of vacations that you only read about in travel magazines (2X's)
Taken my bride on a Alaska Inside Passage Cruise and had dinner with a pod of whales swimming next to us while we ate.
Raised 2 really good daughters that I am very proud of.
Had 600 HP toys to play with.
Managed to teach my daughters that stability and honesty in life is important.
Get through the rough stuff one day at a time.

I don't know what I could add to the next year, but I am sure that I am in for quite a ride.
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You are a lucky man to be able to write that. Bravo!
Tom
 
mehheh... I'm a few years' lists in arrears.

I need that doorway in a concrete block wall Jody just filled in. That'll be just after I finish the shower tile work and put a pocket door in place of a hinged one between bathroom and bedroom.

Gotta tile the floor in Her laundry/sewing room.

Start gathering parts for a Lotus engine rebuild.

Rearrange the garage contents to actually ~find~ said engine. :jester:
 
Been working on my list for the last 3.5 yrs... maybe this year!
 
Ok, seriously, my list:

1. Get my Jag done!
2. Get my Triumph done!
3. Get BCF more active (I want to keep it going!)
4. Re-finish Kitchen cabinets

That ought to keep me busy.
 
CZ_Dave said:
Taken my bride on a Alaska Inside Passage Cruise and had dinner with a pod of whales swimming next to us while we ate.
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Great List! though next time you might want to stay ON the ship while you eat - I guarantee the soup will be less watery. :devilgrin:
 
JPSmit said:
CZ_Dave said:
Taken my bride on a Alaska Inside Passage Cruise and had dinner with a pod of whales swimming next to us while we ate.
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Great List! though next time you might want to stay ON the ship while you eat - I guarantee the soup will be less watery. :devilgrin:
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<span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: italic">Yeah, it was quite a fight to get her into the rowboat so we could go and eat, but she went kicking and screaming any ways</span></span>
 
CZ_Dave said:
JPSmit said:
CZ_Dave said:
Taken my bride on a Alaska Inside Passage Cruise and had dinner with a pod of whales swimming next to us while we ate.
Click to expand...

Great List! though next time you might want to stay ON the ship while you eat - I guarantee the soup will be less watery. :devilgrin:
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<span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-style: italic">Yeah, it was quite a fight to get her into the rowboat so we could go and eat, but she went kicking and screaming any ways</span></span>
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Women & Children first.... :devilgrin:
 
NutmegCT said:
CZ_Dave said:
My Past will be my greatest asset for my future.

I used to say, SOMEday I'll do this and Someday I'll do that.
BUT I have found that my list of someday Isle are over.

Lets see what have I accomplished so far:
Had 2 girls and promised they would never see me under the influence of Drugs or Alcohol.
Promised each one of the boys they brought home, that if anything EVER happend
to them that I did not like, that I would not be affraid to go BACK to jail.
Have taken my family on those type of vacations that you only read about in travel magazines (2X's)
Taken my bride on a Alaska Inside Passage Cruise and had dinner with a pod of whales swimming next to us while we ate.
Raised 2 really good daughters that I am very proud of.
Had 600 HP toys to play with.
Managed to teach my daughters that stability and honesty in life is important.
Get through the rough stuff one day at a time.

I don't know what I could add to the next year, but I am sure that I am in for quite a ride.
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You are a lucky man to be able to write that. Bravo!
Tom
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X2 and admire you for sharing that. I'd love to have seen those boy's faces.
 
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