Again I packed way too much into this week, both during the weekend and on the weekdays. Even during weeks where I don't have a lot planned, we seem to have very few days where we are just hanging at home. For the most part, that's the way I like to do life - purposefully…
Wednesday night was hot again (surprise, so was the rest of the week), so I decided that we should do something fun with the evening instead of wallowing in the extended heat around here. A big perk of working less than full time is that I get home by early afternoon, so my son and…
It rained this week!! We had an abnormally dry July so it has been very welcome to see some precipitation to start out the month of August. While not everyone will rejoice to see rain return, albeit briefly, for even a few days, I've been over the crazy heat for a while and my garden…
It's been ninety or close to for almost a week now, so I feel like I can complain about how stupid hot it is outside. While that may not be noteworthy in a lot of the country, around here it gets us heat advisories. A lot of our discomfort comes from not only the heat…
The 4th of July is over and we are solidly into summer now, which is awesome on all accounts except that we now need to be better about planning ahead on our weekend adventures. Be it backed up ferry lines or packed highways, making the decision to get away for the weekend during the summer…
There is something totally odd about holidays that fall on a Wednesday when you don't take any time off to make it a long weekend on either end, but as we returned from our two week vacation just over a month ago, we really couldn't take any more time off right now. Work is a…
This week went by in an absolute blur. We've had a ton to do around the house and I have a commission meeting this week as well, which makes for some long evenings. I don't regret saying yes to the position, but it certainly makes some weeks a little bit crazy. I haven't had hardly…
Summer is officially here, with three days in a row of 85 degree temperatures. While I realize that isn't crazy hot for those of you who live in actually hot places, the Pacific Northwest doesn't regularly see temperatures this hot for very long, and so many places (especially homes) don't have built in air conditioning.…
Week two of back to work after our vacation, and I'm still doing catch up from the time away, at least when it comes to work. Another bonus to a reduced schedule though is that I've had enough time to get things in order at home so we can get ready to go out of…
We returned from our two week road trip last weekend, and we're back at work this week. Two weeks is the longest we have ever taken off work at one time (outside of having our son, which doesn't quite count as "vacation"), and I have to say that I'm hooked. I'm hopeful that we can…