: Birthday cherry picking, beer drinking, piglet petting. No better way to celebrate.

: Early summer walks, roses, and hammock-laying.

: Lucy and her buds.

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: Merry Xmas 🤶

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: New haircut! I lopped off several inches and cut long bangs again. Much fluffier and healthier.

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: Central Oregon

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: Halloween movie night… The Evil Dead with pumpkin pie. 🎃

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: Honey poached quince and pomegranate on my oats. Feels very wintry already!

: Fall walkies with Miss Lucy

: Stitchfest 2023. I had the best time and met such amazing people!

: Fall so far. Now to figure out what to do with a quarter bushel of quince.

: 📚 Just started reading Wellness by Nathan Hill, and it’s drawing this old Gen X’er in on pure 90s …

: We call this “double decking”.

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: Brunch at Canard with mom

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: Lucy and her buddy, Jet.

: Early morning walks with Miss Lucy

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: Fruit bonanza 2023

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: Back to school. Met so many amazing people from around the world while in Boston the last week.

: Those pink toe beans and tail curl! He lives to stretch out on the window like this in the morning.

: Me and my bestie ❤️🐶

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: The apples are almost ready for harvest. This year, I finally learned a bit about pruning, but I …

: Blackberry season in full swing.

: Stand off! Lucy isn’t afraid of the kitties in the slightest, but for some reason when they’re …

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: Morning walk, evening walk

: Rusty!

: Blackberries on blackberries. Smoothie bowls on repeat, with nut butter, cashews, coconut, hemp …

: Green beans from the garden with farro, walnuts, and dill.

: Hammock kisses

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: Fren?

: Wildflowers in my new vase

: Our late July backpacking adventure along the salmon river, more challenging than anticipated but …

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: New fabric for making some easy projects like tote bags. Pre-washing is about as much as I can do …

: Rusty and Duke are keeping their distance, but they’re very curious about this new creature. Rusty …

: It’s Lucy! She’s starting to settle in, learning to use the stairs, and becoming (cautiously) …

: The annual birthday hike 🎈

: A gift for me, and one for Duke.

: These guys. 🙄

: The evening walk down the hill

: Afternoon on the lawn reading Jeanette Winterson and eating cherries in the sun.

: Pre-birthday brunch with the fam ❤️

: A colorful salad: greens, pineapple, avocado, plantain chips, toasted cashews, and jerk tofu with a …

: Morning and evening walks, such a different experience from the rest of the year, when everything’s …

: Hand stitching a hem on my birthday dress. 🎂

: Morning in the garden

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: Lucinda

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: Hanging lanterns in the new shed!

: Evening walks down to the creek.

: Strawberry sorbet 🍓 so easy and delicious!

: Installed a rose arch, and Kenn made some planters out of old wine barrels.

: Before and after. 😒

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: Unpacking treasures from the local antique store, while Rusty plays with the box.

: Brunch at Canard

: New favorite pants!!! Can’t wait to make these in every favorite color. Seamwork Chelsea jeans with …

: Twinning

: Summer party with the rose ladies!

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: Waffles, a full day of landscaping the garden, and a green tea mochi. Perfect Sunday.

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: 📚 Finished Bowling Alone, a worthwhile 500 pg slog.

: Spring flowers in Portland, then a drive home through a thunderstorm.

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: Palm Springs day 2

: Palm Springs

: Cinnamon doggy

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: Eggs from the neighbors’ chickens.

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: Bros

: Backpacking in Henry Coe state park

: Morning ritual

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: Coconut oat cookies. I add 1/2 tsp kosher salt, vanilla, and (this time) some dried cherries.

: Mini horses!

: 📚Finished reading Existential Kink. Verdict: 👎

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: Pancakes for lunch. Again.

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: My Vietnamese violet in bloom.

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: Wearing the sweater I recently finished knitting. In love with the color.

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: 📚 Currently reading Desigining Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life. So far, it’s got …

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: Caturday with Rusty

: Family dinner, featuring the clementine cake from Benjamina Ebuehi’s The New Way to Cake.

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