THERE IS JUST SO MUCH TO BE GRATEFUL FOR. Even amidst rampant dehydration, scorching temps, anxiety and sleeplessness!
Very excited about new neighborhood haunt Oakmont Food Company. Their chicken tenders (yes from the kids menu no shade) are phenomenal—and gluten-free and made of free-range chicken. Holy. Grail. (I still love you Hopwerks PDX) It’s made to be a third place, and I hope it becomes one.
I love my SUP. It just gives you so many more options and fun things to do! Like take it out even on a low river at Reimers Ranch after rock climbing! I finished some routes that I couldn’t last time we went, and even climbed a route barefoot (I forgot my shoes, doh!)! It was super fun.
OMG did you know Tiny’s Milk & Cookies, the standalone coffee and sweets shop from Tiny Boxwoods, serves the most amazing homemade ice cream? Their Cake Batter ice cream tastes like it, their vanilla with their famous cookies is amazing, and the chocolate brownie batter is to die for. Only to be consumed after high-calorie-burn activities!
Speaking of getting chubby lol, my friendos have opened their pizza truck on the east side: Pafutto, which means chubby in Italian not because you’ll eat too much pizza but because their mobile pizza oven is a chubby red dome.
Got new flowers that are made for the full-sun front bed—NOT volcanic rock, as my mountain-dwelling friend meanly teased me—and am in love with the pops of color they provide!
Also! My hindu rope plant is FLOWERING! After over a year! I am so excited! And proud! Proud plant parent! (too many exclamation points? yup! I don’t care! I am excited!)
Still working on the damn wheelbarrow … but it’s really fun to have a project.
Speaking of projects, the compound also snagged some donated stones to make a path from the neighbro’s house to mine, but we’re thinking that’s a fall project. It’s way too hot to be digging up a yard to lay in stones.
Front yard hang with one of my bro’s hs friends, it’s always a nostalgic reminder of how great our neighborhood was growing up, and I feel lucky that I was close to his friends as well as the kids my age (there were far fewer!).
Co-hosted a virtual event webinar on hosting virtual events … missed it? You can watch it here!
In my day of virtual events, the Food Wine Classic at Home was really well done, and loads of fun. Related, is Martha Stewart REALLY 78 years old?!
The last virtual event of the day was a group watch of “Brains in a Bar”—this nerdy fam of Rice grads got together to watch a religious studies prof online.
And last on this last, but certainly never least, is my never-ending gratitude for my puppy, with her 13.5-year-old zoomies, captured here making THE SAME FACE I made in my yoga post yesterday. We are twins.
