It rained this week!! We had an abnormally dry July so it has been very welcome to see some precipitation to start out the month of August. While not everyone will rejoice to see rain return, albeit briefly, for even a few days, I've been over the crazy heat for a while and my garden…
It's been ninety or close to for almost a week now, so I feel like I can complain about how stupid hot it is outside. While that may not be noteworthy in a lot of the country, around here it gets us heat advisories. A lot of our discomfort comes from not only the heat…
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…
The 4th of July is over and we are solidly into summer now, which is awesome on all accounts except that we now need to be better about planning ahead on our weekend adventures. Be it backed up ferry lines or packed highways, making the decision to get away for the weekend during the summer…
One year ago today, after many months of considering starting my own blog, I finally sat down and hit send on my very first post. All the thanks to Joe at Retire By 40, because for whatever reason, his post on how to start a blog finally got me off the sidelines as a reader…
There is something totally odd about holidays that fall on a Wednesday when you don't take any time off to make it a long weekend on either end, but as we returned from our two week vacation just over a month ago, we really couldn't take any more time off right now. Work is a…
This week went by in an absolute blur. We've had a ton to do around the house and I have a commission meeting this week as well, which makes for some long evenings. I don't regret saying yes to the position, but it certainly makes some weeks a little bit crazy. I haven't had hardly…
While it's no secret that we love packing our bags and heading out of town to explore - be it for one night or two weeks - we also make sure to explore our local area during the days we are at home. Part of the draw of the Pacific Northwest for us, outside of…
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.…
Week two of back to work after our vacation, and I'm still doing catch up from the time away, at least when it comes to work. Another bonus to a reduced schedule though is that I've had enough time to get things in order at home so we can get ready to go out of…