August Loving the Ordinary List

August is often called the “Dog Days of Summer.” It is the time to slow down and live in the moment with the August Loving the Ordinary List.

Time to do a few more items from your Summer Fun List. Don’t have a list? The August Loving the Ordinary List is full of things to do – Ideas for every day of the month to enjoy loving every day that the last of summer has to offer.

Every month, I create a list of 31 ways to Love the Ordinary daily. It is a list to help you enjoy life by carefully curating your days with your home, garden, and life, taking time to enjoy the moment alone or with someone special. I’ve expanded on some of these ideas to inspire you further. As a result, here is August’s Loving the Ordinary List of ideas to add everyday joy to life. In addition, curate or fine-tune what you’ve already created.

With all that said, please find one or two ideas to love and enjoy in August. Here’s August’s Loving the Ordinary List

• National Friendship Day, August 1, so reach out to a new or old friend
• Freeze summer fruit for future smoothies, visit a farm market for the freshest deals
• Stock your guest room with items to pamper your overnight friends
• Embrace summer by hanging mosquito netting as a canopy over your bed
• Pack your favorite indulgent snacks, then go to a drive-in movie
• Host an ice cream social, have everyone bring an item, and enjoy your creations
• Hang a hammock afterward and read one of your favorite childhood comic books
• Take an afternoon and be a tourist in your town; visit the places on the city’s brochure
• Create a large arrangement with sunflowers and dahlias; that is to say, make it grand
• Add headlights and taillights to your bike
• Mix a new salad dressing recipe using fresh herbs from your garden or porch pots.
• Skip the grocery store and go to the farmer’s market for this week’s fresh produce.
• Grab a bottle of wine, a block of cheese, and a baguette, go to a park, and have a late afternoon picnic, Parisienne-style, with someone special
• Outfit your guest room or porch with a soft, lightweight throw blanket to encourage afternoon naps.
• Find a local annual outdoor event to attend. For example, hot-air balloon launch, pony swim, turtle or salmon hatch/release
• Do one thing on your Summer Fun List
• Dry herbs for fall and winter cooking
• Learn to make lobster rolls
• Have a beach movie marathon, or create your own Shark Week
• National Lemonade Day August 20th; learn to make homemade lemonade
• Create a photo backdrop, invite family & friends after that, take each other’s photos for Holiday cards
• Make root beer floats, get fun straws, and use frosty mugs
• Go to an antique car show and watch them cruise
• Learn to tie knots, practice making a macrame hanging
• Fill a glass jar or hurricane vase with summer’s treasures – stones, shells, driftwood, tourist memorabilia
• National Dog Day, August 26th, make dog scarves for all your friends’ pups and invite them on a walk
• Participate in a color run; it’s a fun charity event and not an actual race
• Press your favorite flowers – put them in books until they are dry
• Invite a friend over to watch the stars in the backyard
• Take a scenic drive and visit the roadside attractions as they come along
• Try geocaching – here is a website explaining the idea if it is new

This list is to spark some inspiration for August with Loving the Ordinary each and every day.

I will repeat what I said in July because that is my wish for you this summer. ‘I hope August finds you enjoying a moment in the sun, enjoying your home, your garden, and your community. “Community” I use that word as a reference to all those people in our lives. That is to say a word for our family, those we consider family, friends, neighbors, and those we nod and say ‘hello’ to as we take our morning walks. In addition, this list of 31 ways for Loving the Ordinary each and every day will help you enjoy the month.’ August Blessings to You, Bobbi

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