Below are the things that I find are present for me today:
1. More time with my children and my mom.
2. I want to stick to my diet and workout schedule and not fall off the wagon and back into the cookie/café Mocha/lethargic/big-belly/back-hurting abyss.
3. For my wife to finish some long ago promised sewing tasks for me – I would really like those shorts, pants, and shirts back…
4. a Fine large set (only 2) of Easy Wood carbide insert lathe chisels for all the fall and winter bowl work I have planned
5. For my proper car camping/glamping kitchen set up to be finished – it is about 1/2 the way done and sitting in the GROP.
6. A leisurely trip to Rome and Venice with my wife – no puppies, no family, no friends – just us for a week or so.
7. For my Joiners workbench to be done and set up and in use. I am only about 1/3 of the way done and only have 8 of the 17 sections of the top laminated up.
8. A few books: Franklin Bio by Wood, Paris Between the Wars 1919-1939: Art, Life & Culture; Ernest Hemmingway bio and a two books of his letters (1&2), A signed hardbound copy of Campaign Furniture
Theodore Roosevelt: a Strenuous Life, The Anarchist’s Tool Chest etc…
9. A whole Metric crap-ton (my favorite unit of measure) of wooden wine crates for a couple of open projects at home.
10. To give Heifer International a menagerie of animals for Christmas – That is my charity goal for the year. We give monthly, but I would like to be able to do more this year.
11. For our 2015 French Visas to be finished so we can get on with plans for next year.