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…
This week closes out what appears to be the end of the extra busy schedule that has consumed my last few weeks since we returned from Hawaii and the snow melted. Some of this extra intense schedule was due to the evening meetings that got moved due to the snow, but in general the second…
It's been a few months since my last garden update (the most recent being in August), but my goal is to write these at least semi-regularly so I can keep track of what things look like year round, not just when the garden is in full swing and has plenty ready to harvest. That said,…
The end of August and beginning of September is still peak harvesting around here, and my garden is in full swing. Unfortunately, this is also the time of year that I get killed into complacency because the harvest time is so easy and the garden just continues to produce without me doing much more than…
July is when things usually start to warm up around here, and the garden takes off accordingly. After winter and spring of just a few things to harvest at a time, we suddenly get inundated as everything starts to ripen at once. The weather forecast has been in the high seventies to high eighties for…
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.…