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…
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…
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…