April 2022 Update
The big news from April was preparing for our vacation in early May. At the end of March, we decided we needed to get back out to California and started making plans. I wrote a post about preparing for our … Continued
March 2022 Update
With winter winding down, March was a more interesting month. The weather was hit and miss with a lot of wind. I already wrote about some of the more noteworthy things: Long Birthday Weekend 2022 Year Two of Pandemic Life … Continued
February 2022 Update
February was another fairly quiet winter/pandemic month. The big news was my buying a new camera: a Nikon Z fc. I wrote a post about getting it and a post about my first lengthy outing with it. The weather started … Continued
January 2022 Update
Between it being winter and the spreading of the Omicron variant, January was a quiet month. Early in the month, our wonderfully relaxing winter break came to an end. Unlike most Januarys when there are a couple of quiet weeks … Continued
December 2021 Update
The tentative optimism that developed from the time Holly and I had gotten vaccinated late in the spring withered when we hit December thanks to the emergence of the Omicron variant. Luckily, we had gotten our booster shots in November … Continued
October 2021 Update
October was a very busy months for us. It began with a trip to California and ended with our annual Staycation. Our trip to California was to meet up with Holly’s dad and 2 brothers. It was our first trip … Continued
September 2021 Update
September started off with some weather drama when the remnants of Hurricane Ida came through Philadelphia resulting, among other things, in the historic flooding of the Schuylkill River. Luckily, the rest of the month was less dramatic. The weather started … Continued
August 2021 Update
After a fairly quiet summer, things got a little busier in August, mainly because Holly and I returned to campus for the first time since March 2020. We’re fortunate that we still don’t need to go back every day, especially … Continued
July 2021 Update
July was a pretty quiet month. That was mostly due to the weather, plenty of hot days and plenty of thunderstorms. The increase in Covid cases the second half of the month didn’t directly affect our activities, but it did … Continued
June 2021 Update
June seemed to go by in a flash. I guess that is what happens when you can actually leave your home and do things? We actually hung out with friends a couple of times during the month. Once intentionally and … Continued