I was all set to post a blog this evening about how I've spent a quiet three-day weekend around home. I may still post that blog tomorrow morning... but it will be changed to how I had a mostly quiet three-day weekend at home. The quietude was broken this evening when there came a knock at our door. It was about 5:30pm ( Read more... )

When I got home from a trip Thursday night last week I thought about what I wanted for supper and decided, "Pizza!" More specifically, I wanted good pizza. 😅 In Vegas there was plenty of pizza that was poor. Or wildly too expensive. Or both. Anyway, there's a great by-the-slice joint near my house. It has kind of funky hours, though, so I looked it ( Read more... )

Sunday we got out and about despite my quip that it was our 7th weekend in a row at home. Of course we didn't go far; we stayed right here in Sunnyvale and hiked the Sunnyvale Baylands Park. It was beautiful weather, too; an unseasonably warm 72° or so in the early afternoon ( Read more... )

This weekend has been another (mostly) stay-home weekend. Yes, another- which makes it now seven weekends in a row that we haven't gone anywhere out of town! That's a lot of weekends to spend without setting foot in an airport or at least driving hundreds of miles in a car ( Read more... )

"I should go back to ShaKa Brewing soon," I've been saying for a year now. "Maybe this Friday." Well, Friday finally came yesterday. I put a stake in the ground when I texted a friend, "I'm heading over around 4:45/5pm". Surprisingly he offered to meet me there! (Surprising because he has standing commitments on Friday evenings.) Once it was a date ( Read more... )

It's been weeks since I've written about our quasi-New Year resolution to explore more restaurants in the area. My goal was to try one new restaurant, or a restaurant we haven't been to in so long it might as well be new, near home each month. We missed that in May... largely because we weren't home enough. Update: we did try a new restaurant ( Read more... )

I had a great plan for today. I would get up early-ish, do some multiple of 20 minutes of housecleaning, then we'd drive over the mountains early enough to beat the traffic, and walk the ocean bluffs in Santa Cruz. It would be a great day even though summer weather hasn't arrived yet. It only feels like late April. But it doesn't have to be hot to ( Read more... )

On Friday Hawk and I went for a lunchtime walk around the neighborhood, inspired by a house a few blocks away with a hard full of California poppies. We didn't just go there and back, though. We figured as long as we're out, let's make more of a walk of it. We used to walk the neighborhood frequently but have fallen out of the habit. "Let's loop ( Read more... )

I've mentioned a few times now that we wanted to head to Antelope Valley to see this year's superbloom. It's not as crazy-good as 2019's epic superbloom (if you like wildflowers you'll definitely want to click that that link and the pages it links to to see pics and video) but apparently it's still reasonable. Except the two times we had an ( Read more... )

A few days ago I wrote about our resolution to try new restaurants. We actually made that resolution a few months ago. And even that wasn't the first time we've made such a resolution. Like widely unkept New Year resolutions to visit the gym twice a week it was made with good intentions but poor follow-through. A few of the failed starts for our ( Read more... )