Summer's End To-Do List

Summer went by in the blink of an eye. (I'm a poet:)  I have a huge list of things I meant to do, things I still need or want to do before it gets cold.  I thought maybe that putting my list here for the world to see might help hold me accountable, and therefor improve the possibility that they get done!

I've been wanting to make some wind chimes with these items, and do a tutorial.

I have a couple of these chairs that I scored for free, back when SLC had spring clean up day.  I want to wash them up, paint the wood, and even use some fabric paint to paint flowers on the canvas.

I've been meaning to make a crow feeder out of this broom handle and old sign for a long time now.  There are more and more crows in the neighborhood and I want to attract them to my yard. 

I want to take some rust killer and spray paint to these garden tchotchkes.

I'm still working on my secret garden.  This back corner STILL needs to be cleaned up.

I need to prune back those crazy ornamental grasses in the back, and underneath all that overgrowth there is a peony (a tiny peony!) and a dianthus that I need to dig up and transplant someplace else.

I want to make a compost pile back in the corner behind the rhubarb where nobody can see it.

Oh!  Look what I found out there!  I have some canning to do.  Maybe today.

There are things that just didn't get done in time and ongoing things that I am late on.  This wooden thingy has three pots that sit in it.  I meant to plant them with some kind of trailing plant, petunias or nasturtiums.  Didn't happen.  The birds really want me to fill the bird feeder.  I need to go to the bird food store.

I'm sure there are many more things that should be on my list, but this is enough to start.  What is on your to-do list to finish before the cold comes?