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  • Outdoors
  • Flagstaff
  • Travel
    • Travel
    • India (Yoga Teacher Training)
    • Peace Corps Ukraine
  • Lifestyle
    • Forestry + wildfire (my day job)
    • Yoga (my night job)
    • Our house + renovation work
    • Wedding planning
    • Our huskies
    • Sustainability
    • Books + movies + music
    • Skincare + haircare + physical self-care
    • DIY + decor
    • Odds and Ends
  • Stuff I like
  • About
    • About Randi
    • Contact
    • Professional ish (AKA: portfolio)
    • Disclosure and privacy policy

What I read: April 2024

April 30, 2024 May 1, 2024 Randi

This month included both Emily Henry AND Kristin Hannah’s newest releases — so what’s not to love!

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This summer’s Flagstaff vegetable garden plans

April 25, 2024 May 21, 2024 Randi

I absolutely hated gardening when I was a kid.

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What I eat in a day: A less-than-lazy Sunday at home

April 22, 2024 April 21, 2024 Randi

This past weekend was busy, but fairly productive.

Ryan and I had back-to-back parties on Saturday afternoon/ evening, and we spent all day yesterday getting as much cleaning done as possible.

Late April is always a lot of work around the house for us. I know a lot of people focus on spring cleaning (and we’re definitely not an exception), but for us, it’s also time for us to prepare for the potential upending of our lives: aka fire season.

In addition to getting all the deep cleaning done (it’s SO nice to come home to a clean house after a 16-plus-hour day), we do quite a bit to prepare for the unexpected wildfires that completely uproot our household.

A lot of that includes food. As much as I always try to do grocery shopping and meal prepping year-round on Sunday nights to prepare for busy office days and studio nights throughout the work week, I become absolutely militant about it during fire season.

I get very hangry very easily, so knowing I have a few healthy meals at the ready is one less thing to worry about when work beckons.

So with that said — my Sundays now focus on cleaning, running errands and prepping food for the week.

Here’s everything I ate yesterday while doing all of the above.

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Small band and large cup swimwear picks for summer

April 15, 2024 April 11, 2024 Randi

The Flagstaff highs are pushing 70 degrees all!

Summer is still a looong way off in the high country, but I’ve been dreaming.

And part of that dreaming is… ogling swimwear.

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Vegetarian apple and cheddar grain bowls with celery and farro, plus a honey lemon dressing

April 10, 2024 April 1, 2024 Randi

More grain bowls!

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Stuff at REI that’s catching my eye this season

April 8, 2024 May 27, 2024 Randi

This past winter was mild. So, so very mild. I think we only had three snowfalls?

So, it seems a little premature to get excited about warm weather adventures, but… here we are!

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One month with Ochi

April 6, 2024 March 28, 2024 Randi

It’s been a month since Ryan and I spontaneously adopted our husky pup Ochi from the Maricopa County animal shelter system, and what a month it’s been!

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300-hour Yoga Teaching Training plans… in Rishikesh, India!

April 3, 2024 February 9, 2025 Randi

Namaste friends, it’s time for the next step in my yoga teaching career! This past weekend, I paid my deposit and reserved my spot in a month-long 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) program in Rishikesh Uttarakhand: the BIRTHPLACE OF YOGA in the HIMALAYAN FOOTHILLS in northern INDIA!

To say I am excited is an UNDERSTATEMENT!

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Preventing single-use plastic waste with the Azulita Project at the Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival

April 1, 2024 April 1, 2024 Randi

Anyone who knows me knows that single-use plastics are one of my biggest pet peeves.

No joke — a few years ago at Friendsgiving, we were playing “Taboo.” My friend Lauren drew a card and-
Lauren: “Oooo, OOO! The thing Randi hates!”
Everyone at the table, all at once: “PLASTIC!”

So, when I discovered the Azulita Project, a Flagstaff-based non-profit focused on reducing single-use plastics, I was SO on board.

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What I read: March 2024

March 31, 2024 March 31, 2024 Randi

I’m already way, way behind on my reading for the year, yikes.

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Randi with an i

Randi M. Shaffer

Hi! I'm Randi. I spend my days working in forestry and wildfire, my nights instructing yoga and my weekends exploring northern Arizona (and beyond). I'm a former journalist, a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer and a Midwest native. Welcome!

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