weekend report
Highlights
Long Weekend
Ours included a hike in the sun, a hike in the snow, making pies with golden syrup, hosting our families for dessert (of which not a single picture exists, whoops), and lots of couch time with Toby.
PS, if you’re not baking your leftover stuffing with eggs and cheese for post-Thanksgiving breakfast, your leftovers are not living up to their full potential.
Things That Are Good
Happening Around Here
Not Shown: Cleaning
I spent most of the weekend going through closets and drawers to see how bad a carpet beetle infestation was. Turns out they really like J. Crew sweaters, so there was mending to do. (And chemical bombing. All my principles of ahimsa went out the window.)
I also finally felt strong enough after that cold two weeks ago to do a hard hike, and the upper mountains are looking like they’re getting ready for winter. So I did too and started working on my flannel shirt. Hopefully, it won’t be tasty to carpet beetles.
Good And Bad
Seasonal
The weekend included showing Doc the alpaca ranch, aspens at their peak, and some seasonal dessert. Good weekend.
Weekend In Moab
If you can arrange it, you should always have people who like to offroad and people who are serious nature photographers and explorers in your group of friends, because that means you get to know about the best places to camp, the best places to shoot sunset, and you have a built-in convoy for learning how to hit the back roads, where the secret arches and dinosaur bones are.
I took the “Roo” off road for the first time and surprised myself with how much fun I had. She did great, too–just stepped up over rocks, straddled ruts, and even made it through some sand that gave a Land Cruiser some trouble (!).
Moab may be my favorite place on earth. It was good to be back with my favorite people and be able to see even more now.
Shots, Steps
Doc and I got fitness trackers so I’ve been walking more downtown in the week. I hit my goal of 10,000 steps Friday and Saturday, so we opted out of a hike Sunday and got things done at home/recuperated from the week like Toby here.
Other notes:
- The “family entertainment” icon on the Dutch oven box is hilarious
- There are some coold buildings downtown
- Doc takes the best pictures of Toby