It’s hard to believe that our Montana trip was two months ago already. For whatever reason, time seems to be speeding by right now. Really, this last year and a half of COVID time just hasn’t seemed normal. We joke that every day is “noneday” because it’s so hard to keep the days straight. Will…
It's now the first week of July, and I'm just now getting around to finally recap our May (and June) spending. Instead of splitting them up into two separate blog posts, I've decided to simply include them together in this one and move on and be glad that I've caught up. As I've said in…
The city of Kirkland where I live hit 111°F on Monday. After topping out at 106°F on Sunday and 102°F on Saturday. We’ve only ever hit triple digits here a few times, and never two days in a row, let alone three. Two thirds of homes in our area don’t have any air conditioning. And…
We are poised for a historic heat wave here in the Pacific Northwest this weekend, and it’s all anyone is really talking about around here right now, myself included. Today will be warm, in the mid to upper eighties, but then we have a decent chance of hitting three 100+ days in a row. For…
Welcome to the Women’s Personal Finance Wednesday Roundup! We started this series back in 2018 on TreadLightlyRetireEarly.com to showcase the fabulous women in the online personal finance community who are talking about money online. Even now, there is a perception that women aren’t good with money, don’t care about money, or don’t understand it on…
We finally got our chicks this week! After so long planning and building the coop, it felt awesome to bring home chicks. There’s something about having livestock that makes this whole urban homestead thing feel much more real than simply having a large garden. I wish I could say that this first week has been…
After hosting the Women's Personal Finance Wednesday Roundup here on Tread Lightly, Retire Early for the past two and a half years (!), it's time to make a change with week #138. With Women's Personal Finance expanding beyond Facebook and onto its own website, it feels like these roundups belong there. After all, the reason…
The chicken coop is complete! It's been a lot of work, especially over the last few months, but it feels awesome to have the project completed. We've scheduled a pick up time for our chicks this weekend, and it feels a bit like counting down to Christmas or another important holiday. We're going to a…
Welcome to another week of the Women’s Personal Finance Wednesdays roundup. I started this series after months of debate because I wasn’t certain I wanted to up the ante and commit to publishing three posts a week. However, now that I’ve started sharing these posts, I’m so glad I started. There are so many fabulous…
With vaccinations comes more normal life. My dear friend Felicity is now two weeks past her second shot, and got to spend a good deal of Thursday together. She’s retired, and I don’t work Thursdays, so instead we had lunch, worked in the garden, walked downtown, and got ice cream. The kiddo adores her, so…