The last few months have been a cycle of getting to see blogger friends in person - either again or for the first time - likely because now is probably the best time of year to visit the Pacific Northwest, plus the kiddo and I made a visit down to Portland happen to celebrate Uriah's…
After not writing a garden update for a good six months, I'm finding myself publishing them two months in a row. Clearly, it's spring, and there's a lot more going on in the garden. After four summers of minimal time spent in the garden, it feels really good to give it some real attention this…
Growing up, the month of May used to look a lot like April: gray, wet, and dreary. If we were lucky, Memorial Day weekend might have decent enough weather for a barbecue outside. This year though, and the last few before that, have been unseasonably warm, and we've been seeing weather in the seventies and…
As promised, today's post will be a long overdue update on the state of the garden (the last one was back in November, so almost six months ago). That said, there hasn't really been enough to write a full post about until now because we had such a cold couple of winter months and my…
It's rained quite a bit lately, with a few breaks for the sun, but the weather has warmed up enough that it feels like spring. And really, it's the mild rain that makes it most feel like spring, more than the sun, because that and the gray is what we tend to see most up…
Happy Earth Day! I had a hard time deciding what to write about today because it feels like such an important one. As you all have probably - hopefully - figured out by now, I'm a little bit obsessed with living a sustainable life (hey, it's even the name of this blog). Because of that,…
We went out to San Juan Island for the day on Saturday for the first time in far too long. While Lopez Island is our favorite of the islands, we very much enjoy spending time on Orcas Island and San Juan Island as well. The major upside of heading to San Juan is that Friday…
So, one of our very favorite neighbor couples is moving out of state come next month. They are having their first child and are moving to be closer to family, so I completely understand why they are making that choice, but we are seriously going to miss them around here. Remember when I wrote about…
Last Friday the kiddo and I took the train down to Portland for Uriah's third birthday party. It was an absolutely lovely trip and I'm so glad that the two of them got to hang in real life instead of just by FaceTime, and seeing and hugging his mama just fed my soul. Love you…
After what has felt like an extremely long, extremely cold winter, things seem to finally be warming up a little and feeling like spring might just be around the corner after all. For those of you in the Midwest or the Northeast where it regularly snows and stays cold this late in the year, this…