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…
Today marks a decade in our house. Ten years ago, we were twenty three years old, new to being back in the area, and determined to buy a home. Or well, I was determined to buy a home, and my husband was along for the ride. Six months of dreaming online and then six months…
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…
After a month of counting weeks differently thanks to my birthday, the new year, and the intense weeks we lived through in January, it's time to go back to counting the weeks by COVID, since we are about to hit the one year mark. Going back and reading my first few weeks living with COVID…
We've hit the highest daily deaths nationwide this week since the peak in April that was concentrated in New York City. Now, COVID-19 is pretty much everywhere. We in Washington State also had our highest death count this week, even though our numbers are still better than most of the country. Better, but still much,…
Four days until the 2020 Presidential Election. We have a new member of the SCOTUS. The United States has now hit new highs for COVID-19 infections, and tomorrow is Halloween, with too many people with party plans. 2020 is certainly planning to finish out with a bang. We will be trick or treating on our…
Thirty two weeks into our experience here in Kirkland, Washington, the one time hotspot in the United States when cases of COVID-19 first arrived here in the United States. Thirty two weeks, and I'm certain we're in it for at least another thirty two, which feels long and hard. I'm not sure how long I'll…
Another week, another Friday post that starts with “I’m tired.” I’m simply brain tired, exhausted, emotionally spent. I’m not sure exactly why these past few weeks have been particularly hard, but they have been. If you’re feeling it too, you’re not alone. Unfortunately, I’m not sure that feeling is going to change in the next…
By the time this post gets published, we should be back fully immersed in smoky air, though we are the lucky ones. There are historic wildfires raging all up and down the west coast, including one less than forty miles from us. For the Puget Sound metro area, that is unprecedented by itself, and Washington,…
And like that, it's now September, though the weather isn't acting like it. We should hit eighty degrees today and the mid-eighties for the next week, which is considerably warmer than typical for our area. We only hit ninety degrees a couple of days this whole summer, so mid-eighties for a full week is really…