Summer things ♥

People have made such nice lists of things they'd like to do in summer, noticing there's far too much and they probably won't manage half of them—which is of course the fun of it.

I wonder what I'd like to do.

 — paint the veranda of my cottage (ceiling will be sky blue, everything else white-white)
 — clean and sort all kind of things I've collected through the years that are in piles of banana boxes
 — mulch my vegetable garden and grow an abundance of herbs
 — collect St. John's wort, clover, meadowsweet, tansy and loads of nettles
 — make pesto with yarrow and dandelion leaves and organic pecan nuts
 — make soap with midsummer rose petals and lavender
 — get coffee bean tan
 — swim a lot
 — go pick strawberries on one of those strawberry fields where you pick yourself and pay by weight (and eat a lot while picking)
 — visit Saaremaa in Estonia
 — visit my in-laws' summer cottage before it'll be sold away (that's where my husband spent his summers)
 — have an untraditional wedding party without anyone pressing me to have it the way I don't want it (there'll be croquet)
 — sew harem pants of moss green Cambodian silk and just nice baggy pants of brown Estonian linen
 — buy new trekking boots for hiking in Balkan in August
 — brew lemon balm sima (Finnish mead)
 — enjoy all nice veggies in my garden
 — spend a weekend in Hanko (coastal Finland)
 — get my tub polished and waxed (I trust my husband on this one; he already filled the caps and holes with flax fiber) and then soak in it