Another Stay-Home Weekend. Mostly.
This past weekend was another stay-at-home weekend. Mostly.
Friday night we stayed in and played D&D with three friends over. See my notes from the game in a separate blog post. It was fun if not quite as long as I wanted; we called an end to the session and started packing up just before 11pm.
Saturday was a total "be a slug" day. I can barely even remember what we did. I know it wasn't much. 😅 Being a slug for a day felt warranted as I was go-go-go most of the week at work.
Sunday I got up surprisingly early. Well, not too surprisingly as it was the morning the clocks roll back an hour for the end of Daylight Saving Time. I woke up just before 6:30am because the sky was already starting to get light (sunrise is at 6:39am now) and because I'd had that extra hour of sleep due to the time change.
I frittered for a while Sunday morning, but because I got such an early start I was done frittering by 9am. Hawk did the same. We then used the opportunity of having gotten up early to get an earlier start on an area hiking trip.
Mid-morning Sunday we drove up to Russian Ridge open space in the coast range mountains to our west. The are literally several dozen Open Space districts and county parks within an hour of where we live. Russian Ridge, though, is a favorite. We mixed it up a bit this time by starting at a different trailhead than we usually do. Initially I thought we'd hike about a 2 mile loop, but we ended up hiking more than 5 miles. It was a good workout, and the weather was even better than expected.
Update: Blogs on hiking Russian Ridge!
After the hike we kind of went back to being slugs. We ate a late lunch, did a bit of shopping that took way the heck longer than it should have because Christmas shoppers are out in force already, and headed back home for the rest of the day. We squeezed in a dip in the hot tub before retiring to the house for the rest of the evening- which began early, as sunset is now just after 5pm. 😰
Friday night we stayed in and played D&D with three friends over. See my notes from the game in a separate blog post. It was fun if not quite as long as I wanted; we called an end to the session and started packing up just before 11pm.
Saturday was a total "be a slug" day. I can barely even remember what we did. I know it wasn't much. 😅 Being a slug for a day felt warranted as I was go-go-go most of the week at work.
Sunday I got up surprisingly early. Well, not too surprisingly as it was the morning the clocks roll back an hour for the end of Daylight Saving Time. I woke up just before 6:30am because the sky was already starting to get light (sunrise is at 6:39am now) and because I'd had that extra hour of sleep due to the time change.
I frittered for a while Sunday morning, but because I got such an early start I was done frittering by 9am. Hawk did the same. We then used the opportunity of having gotten up early to get an earlier start on an area hiking trip.
Mid-morning Sunday we drove up to Russian Ridge open space in the coast range mountains to our west. The are literally several dozen Open Space districts and county parks within an hour of where we live. Russian Ridge, though, is a favorite. We mixed it up a bit this time by starting at a different trailhead than we usually do. Initially I thought we'd hike about a 2 mile loop, but we ended up hiking more than 5 miles. It was a good workout, and the weather was even better than expected.
Update: Blogs on hiking Russian Ridge!
After the hike we kind of went back to being slugs. We ate a late lunch, did a bit of shopping that took way the heck longer than it should have because Christmas shoppers are out in force already, and headed back home for the rest of the day. We squeezed in a dip in the hot tub before retiring to the house for the rest of the evening- which began early, as sunset is now just after 5pm. 😰