Another Bingo Bucket List Item - Walk 100 Miles in 30 Days

I completed another Bingo bucket list item. I not only walked 100 miles in 30 days - I walked it in 22 days.

I knew I was close when I left the house this morning so I kept checking my watch to see when I hit 100 miles. I was at the grocery store so I took a quick picture of my feet. I wasn't about to ask someone in the store to take my picture walking down the grocery aisle! 

Plant Indoor Seeds

I keep seeing pictures on my Instagram feed for Midnight Blue Hostas.

In fact, the people posting the pics indicated they're starting them from seeds. Since "Plant Indoor Seeds" is on my Bingo card bucket list, I decided to get some hosta seeds and plant them.

I'm quite the overachiever so I not only planted seeds but I got the planter with the dome lid, humidity controller and watched a YouTube video on how to start seeds. There's 12 spaces in this planter and if you figure each grown hosta plant costs at least $25, I could be saving a fortune this Spring. Otherwise, there's about $15 down the drain.

Monkey Bread

I tried to start my diet today for another bucket list item but monkey bread kept calling my name.

I'll have to start the diet another day. This bread turned out so well. After eating this, I'll need that diet.

A Puzzle for my Bingo Bucketlist Card

I completed putting together a puzzle for my Bingo bucket list card. This gives me 9 out of 25 things to do before April 1.

I tend to pick puzzles where every piece looks the same. This time a jumble of candy. I'm going a step further with this and going to Michael's to get some puzzle glue. This is going on my garage wall. I worked too hard to just take it apart and put it back in the box. 

Volleyball - Lawrence

Violet's volleyball team had another tournament in Lawrence. I don't mind traveling to out of town locations but Lawrence is about an hour away and Teresa picks me up around 6:30 in order to make the 8:00 game. Plus we try to get a parking spot close to the building. Makes for a long day.

It's hard to say whether Violet's team won or lost. These tournaments are for seeding for Power League. I can't go any further with an explanation because I'm not sure what this means. I usually just nod my head. I tried to get a picture of her in action (she's really pretty good) but my camera skills are terrible.

I was so embarrassed because I wore my pink volleyball shirt. Just a generic shirt with volleyball on it but 2 of the teams Violet played wore pink and Violet's team colors are white and navy blue. I think I'll check Amazon for another shirt.

Reflection, Vision Board & Resolutions

After 8 months I'm finally getting back to my blog. It might be hard to follow since I'm going forward plus trying to catch up on all the stuff that happened in 2025.

2025 wasn't a very good year for me with having both knees replaced and a 15 day hospital stay (not related to my knees). I kind of lost the zest to keep up my blog. But with this being Pearl's first year, I feel I must reflect back on the year and catch up with milestones.

Michele is always looking for ways to stay occupied during the winter months. Me, I'm perfectly fine sitting in my house and watching the months fly by. She created a Bingo card with activities to get us moving and out of the house. The competitive side of me can't resist a good challenge. You can see I've already checked off a few boxes and trying hard to find ways to complete my card.

I'm constantly reading so that was a no brainer. My goal for 2026 is to walk 4,000,000 steps so I created a playlist with songs that are good to walk to. My most fun accomplishment (which checked off "Take on Online Class" and "Create a Vision Board") was, you guessed it - create a vision board. I took a class or rather watched a YouTube video leaning how to use Canva to create a vision board.

This morning I got up and walked the neighborhood to catch the sunrise. I'm not fond of walking in the cold but the temperature was above freezing - actually in the 40's - and we're supposed to have either freezing rain and snow this weekend. With Missouri weather no telling when the temperatures will cooperate to complete this task.

If I had to make resolutions for 2026, my biggest one would be not to procrastinate. It might have taken me 7 days into the new year to start my blog again but I'm trying hard to stay focused and make this a good year. Maybe we need a bingo card for Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter.

Pearl's First Fever

It was bound to happen. Pearl had her first fever.

It's not surprising with 3 older siblings going to school and bringing nasty viruses home. Or maybe it's her many trips to Target with Goldie. Either way it's really sad to see your poor baby suffer.