Year in Photos

garden

  • November 20

    I finally finished weeding the garden. And the hibiscus is blooming! That’s about all I really got done today, which is slightly disappointing. My current vacation isn’t even over and I’m already counting down the days until my next vacation. There’s something wrong with that, right?

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    November 20

  • November 9

    I went outside to check on Pinot in the backyard, because he likes to dig under the fence and disappear. He was sniffing around on the grass, so I lay down and looked at the sky a while. It was a really nice day, warm but not hot, sunny with a few clouds, not humid.…

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    November 9

  • October 26

    Every day seems to present a new challenge. Which is just becoming normal.

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    October 26

  • October 23

    Young love is in the air.

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    October 23

  • October 6

    Robin said she loves me very, very, very, very much today, which kind of makes up for my crappy day yesterday.

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    October 6

  • September 7

    I’ve heard the newer iPhones take better night photos, and based on this, I’d agree. It’s not the best shot I’ve ever taken, but the image quality is probably even better than my (now decrepitly ancient) DSLR. I guess sometimes it pays to upgrade.

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    September 7

  • June 29

    I walked over 16,000 steps around the island, including one jaunt I thought would take me to a nice lookout point. Turns out that lookout point was a lot farther away than I estimated and between Christina’s shoes being completely inappropriate for walking and the fact that I had to be back for dinner, we…

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    June 29

  • June 18

    I finally got back into the yard to do some weeding and found even more hydrangea blooms. We have three plants right next to each other and each one is a different color – purple, white, pink. Who knew the soil pH could vary so much in such a small space?

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    June 18

  • June 9

    I had big plans for dijon-marinated grilled pork chops for dinner tonight, and then for the first time in weeks, it stormed. And it stormed from 5-7pm, right at dinner time. Not at 2 or 3pm. Not 7 or 8pm. Dinner time. So we ended up with takeout. Ah well… keeping my fingers crossed for…

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    June 9

  • June 6

    I am working through some tough decisions and it’s making real life difficult.

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    June 6

  • May 21

    Today was stressful, but I didn’t have the crazy overwhelming anxiety I’ve had the last three weeks, which was nice. I went to church for the first time in weeks with the idea that I’d go to the park for a little while afterwards, but realized quickly that I’d come back on the day of…

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    May 21

  • May 11

    At dinner tonight, Billy asked Robin to name the main types of rocks and she listed off: igneous, sediment, and Dwayne Johnson.

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    May 11

  • May 8

    Oh my god the last week has felt interminably impossible. I really thought today would turn the tide, but there’s been no relief at all. Anxiety has its hooks deep in my heart and stomach and lungs and it’s literally painful. Eating hurts, breathing hurts. I’m ready for a break.

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    May 8

  • May 1

    After three days of pure anxiety at the weekend’s cheer competition, I have crashed completely. I’m pressing through it. Tomorrow will be better.

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    May 1

  • April 15

    I spent two and a half hours in the yard today, trying to clean it up a little. I cut back allllll of those dead bougainvillea branches and got scratched about two dozen times, but it looks a lot healthier now. Then I pruned my roses and weeded the garden, and to my great surprise,…

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    April 15