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House in chaos, Mother's Day, and more
The house is really in chaos because of the kitchen reno. My microwave is in my bedroom, along with a lot of other stuff from the kitchen, including the chairs that go with the dining room table...
The sun sets on this vacation!
Note: Written early this morning, saved as a draft so I could finish it when I got home). It’s 5:49 a.m. and I’m ready to go. Michael and I agreed we’d each get up around 6:00 with a goal of hi...
Vacation Mode/Perspective
At work, we talk about how you really need two weeks of vacation to completely decompress and relax. It’s so true. Here we are on Day Five of our vacation and I feel like we are just finally re...
Rainbows and puppies
Yesterday was, by design, a very lazy day. It’s hard to let go of the notion that we have to “go” and “do” rather than just “be.” My trip to Iceland at the end of this month will definitely be ...
Cinco de Mayo at the beach
If I was at work today, some of my friends and I would probably go to a Mexican restaurant for lunch, or someone would organize a Cinco de Mayo happy hour. I know that several of my neighbors ar...
Pictures - Inside
Now here are some pictures I’ve taken inside the house. There are so many neat things about this house that I haven’t taken pictures of yet (at least, not this time around) but I’ll get around t...
Pictures - The Beach
Here are some pictures we’ve taken outside in the 43-odd hours we’ve been here at the beach house so far. One corner of our front deck: Another corner of the deck: Sunset. I have about 1,000 ...
The perfect kind of Monday
A Monday when you’re on vacation, that is. I’m trying to avoid the “real world” as much as possible on this vacation. No TV. No newspapers. Although I can’t resist at least checking the headl...
Book Description
I have two vacations in May of this year – a week in a beach house in Yachats, Oregon, and then a week with my family in Iceland at the end of May. This book is devoted to those trips.
