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…
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…
It’s been a good month now since I’ve been fully vaccinated, and it’s starting to really sink in. Until the kiddo is able to get his shots, I won’t totally relax, but it’s such a different place to be these days. Honestly, I have a hard time wrapping my brain around anti-vaxxers and the vaccine…
If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook, you might have seen the photo I posted of us in Glacier National Park. We just returned last weekend from a week and a half road trip out to Montana and back, the first time we’ve left the state of Washington since we returned from Iceland in…
I may have had other things to say this week, but with the CDC announcement that vaccinated folks no longer need to wear masks in most settings, even indoors..... I'm just going to copy/paste what I shared on Twitter: I’m feeling gaslit here. The pandemic ISN’T over. We have ~56% of FIRST vaccines completed here…
After a weekend working on the chicken coop, we decided to go look in person at a local store that had a chick delivery... just to “go see.” Let’s just say it took some serious willpower to leave the store without any chicks, regardless of the unfinished status of the coop... As the build gets…
These are weird times at present. All of our close friends and family have been vaccinated locally (and around the country), other than the children, which is a whole different worry. But things feel safer locally than they have in a very long time. At the same time, the COVID transmission rates among the unvaccinated…
The weather has been absolutely glorious this week. The sun has been shining every day and the temperatures have gotten into the low seventies. The rain returns tomorrow, which feels pretty bittersweet. Such lovely weather during April in the Pacific Northwest has been wonderful, but after needing to water my garden multiple times already, I…
Five more days until I’m fully vaccinated (two weeks after my second shot). My husband gets his second shot on Wednesday. And our roommate got his one and done Johnson & Johnson shot a week ago, so he’s fully vaccinated next Friday. The kiddo won’t get his turn for a while yet, but the rest…
Ahem. As is probably clear by the title of this post, I GOT MY SECOND COVID SHOT on Wednesday afternoon. At 3:51pm, because Rite Aid picks odd times for appointments, because why not, I suppose? I am verrrrry tired (napped at 10:30am today - Thursday), so I almost didn't write this week's post. But like…