One of my favorite things to do is to go on an evening adventure with the girl. Sometimes it’s pie. Sometimes it’s coffee. Sometimes it’s just to get the exercise. The view isn’t half bad either!
Evening walks
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Orange is the New Bark: A great project by great people
I work with a number of great people at my job and Kathy Horn is one of them. Not only is she a top notch creative director but she and her husband worked on this great project that inspires folks to adopt pets from places like the Austin Humane Society.
I am a dog lover (in case you can’t tell by the pictures of my dog Marley here) and I think this is such a great idea to not only find a fun way to get people to adopt a pet that needs a home but also provides other organizations the ability to create similar videos for their own animals!
If you’d like to learn more about their project, you can visit their site Orange is the New Bark or check out their Facebook page to see some of the latest videos that are being created. And for your viewing pleasure, a parody video that can also be found on their site.
rocks and plants
I have a working theory that everything I plant half dies, then, in its own sweet time, comes back to life and decides to grow. I am sure the crazy weather doesn’t help. If you left me outside in this, I would have to carefully consider coming back to life too. But I am happy to see our rock garden is finally starting to fill in a little bit. I also added that cactus in the pot for another layer, and he is just as happy as a clam there.
Beach-iversary Part 2
July has been a great month for the girl and I. One of the best parts was a beach-iversary that we took over a long 4th of July weekend. We did everything from eat ice cream twice a day to morning walks on the beach to hunt for sand dollars. Oh, and the girl made some amazing apple pie and cookies with her ma. It was epic.
Tillamook Cheese Factory!
Barrels and barrels of amazing taffy.
A morning walk on the beach.
The seagulls created a crab murder scene.
In between sand dollar hunting we had some fun in the water.
Fish and chips! They were delicious and it came with four different kind of fish.
Big ship and little ship that we saw during our lunch stop on the way home.
weekend snaps
Couple from over the weekend.
1. A new toy to up my pickle game.
2. Sunday morning blueberry pancakes.
3. She was up late protecting us from bugs.
Gigantic cucumber
One of the best parts about our backyard urban farm is harvesting the vegetables of our labors. The other day we were out checking on the crops and we found this HUGE cucumber that had been hiding from us for what must have been weeks. Luckily we found it in time and now we just have to decide if we’re going to eat him in a salad or turn it into gigantic pickles with the new crinkle cut chopper that the girl got recently.
the basil of baker st hospital
For the sick and needy basil of today, so that they may become productive pesto of the future.
I transplanted these pitiful looking guys into the ground near our back porch. They were doing just fine in some box planters all spring, but all the sudden looked like they no longer wanted to live. So I stuck them in the ground, and told them to think again.
And this is just a couple days after.
So. There’s that.
something i did today
Today’s harvest. Does anyone else use their shirt as a veggie basket?
something i did today
It is a good thing I am as good at cleaning up messes as I am at making them.
beach-iversary
Our first anniversary had two parts. Part one was the peach-iversary. Part two, the beach-iversary.
We hopped in the car on Sunday morning, with the most perfect Oregon coast weather over our heads, and bellies ready to be filled with ice cream. On Monday morning, that misty ocean fog greeted us, and we had the whole beach to ourselves. I can’t wait to bring back a pack of Sanders someday, and we’ll collect every piece of sand dollar, and make this handsome guy of mine rinse off the shells in the cold ocean water.
guy and his girl 