OK, I’m back with the second part of my and Ryan’s recent trip up to Washington!
You can read the first part — our first few days bopping around Seattle — here.
I feel like I’ve been playing catch-up and battling off a cold for the better part of the past week, but I finally had a second today to throw some words and photos together and share a little recap of my and Ryan’s recent trip up to Washington!
March was a pretty decent month for reading!
I kept busy with wildfire academy for work, multiple weekend trips to the Valley, a long-awaited Taylor Swift concert and a few other things, like knitting and hiking, but I still found time for five books.
We had an early March snowstorm that coincided with a few sick days at work. That snowstorm dumped literally two full feet of snow overnight, so it was nice to stay home, rest, and knock out several hundred pages of reading.
Then… it kept snowing all throughout March. So it’s been really nice to have a lot of cozy snowy reading days this month.
I’m definitely going to miss reading by our little faux fireplace once spring rolls around, but I am excited for (eventual) summer reading, once the chaos of fire season subsides.
It’s the one-year anniversary of the Flagstaff YogaSix studio…
…which means it’s also my one-year anniversary of teaching (and practicing!) at YogaSix.
Time flies!
I posted last year about receiving my job offer from YogaSix — which was brand new and just opening at the time — and then about undergoing Bridge Training, but then after that, I’ve mostly been quiet about teaching yoga.
…which is weird, because it’s been such a huge part of my life for the past year.
I wanted to give a little update now that I’m a full year in.
It’s been about a year since our Pela Lomi countertop composter was delivered to our little Flagstaff apartment, pristinely wrapped in compostable bioplastic and recyclable cardboard/ paper tape.
…And, it’s been about a week since our replacement Pela Lomi was delivered to our Flagstaff apartment, wrapped in the same eco-friendly packaging.
Um. Yep.
I figured it was time for an update after a year with our Lomi composter.
After some record setting snowfall… it’s finally (officially) spring!
This winter was really, really busy.
And really, really snowy.
It wasn’t quite as busy as last winter — most of which I spent working and recreating out in northern California, with a big trip back to both Chicago and Michigan — but I still kept myself fairly occupied in and around Arizona, and even snuck in an extended weekend trip to Colorado.
I’m going to preface with this: If you’re looking for high-quality photos and videos of Taylor Swift’s “Eras” tour, this is NOT the place. We had cheap ($140) side-view nosebleed seats and I BARELY took any photos because I was way too busy singing and dancing and screaming and oohing and aahing and loving every single second of Taylor’s three-hour-long 44-song setlist in Glendale, Ariz.!
BUT, I’m very much still on my Swiftie high, so I wanted to write about how incredible the Eras Tour Glendale concert was!
OOOO I am tired.
But I can tell you all about National Incident Management Response framework and how it relates to the Incident Command System!
I just wrapped up five days of classes at Arizona Wildfire and Incident Management Academy for the second year in a row.
I read two books during February. I’m a little behind schedule, but I guess I’m at least two books closer to my goal of 50 for the year!
I spoke too soon!
Ryan and I were driving back to Flagstaff yesterday after a weekend spent backpacking through the Tonto National Forest’s Superstition Wilderness Area, and he asked how I thought the weekend went.
Despite an unexpected hailstorm we got caught in mid-hike out, despite the Maricopa County search and rescue team that approached us first thing Sunday morning and despite the high-velocity winds and rains that soaked through the bottom of our tent and into our sleeping pads, I said the trip was great.
“Nobody called search and rescue for us, I didn’t twist an ankle, I didn’t vomit at any point and I didn’t get any blisters. I’d call that a success!”
Except… again. I spoke too soon. I have a MASSIVE blister on the bottom of the ball of my foot that I somehow didn’t notice until this morning.
Regardless, I still think that our past weekend backpacking the Superstitions was a success!
