If you’re a northern Arizona resident with a paddle board, kayak, pack raft… any kind of recreational watercraft, odds are pretty high that you’ve been to Clear Creek Reservoir.
(Hey, have I mentioned that I bought a new inflatable paddle board?)
Riiiight before the Pipeline/Haywire/Double Fire complex broke out on my forest (more on that later), I had the chance to head on a day trip to Clear Creek with a few of my friends. It was (unsurprisingly) a blast.
I’ve been a little hesitant to post about this because, well, what if everything goes wrong… but so far (fingers crossed) we’ve gotten seedlings started and transplanted, and some crops are taking off!
Which means… we have a garden!
I first tried paddle boarding (and paddle board yoga) during my unemployed summer in Michigan while I was looking for anything and everything COVID-safe to entertain myself with.
I fell in love IMMEDIATELY, and would have bought a paddle board right away if it were not for the pesky logistical things like… yunno, planning my move to an apartment. In Arizona. With little room to store a paddle board and few places to actually take said paddle board.
My two really good friends Vandy and Breanna, who live in Seattle, bought paddle boards sometime around the start of the pandemic, too, and seeing their constant social media posts around all the lakes, sounds and bays in Seattle did absolutely nothing to dissuade me.
So, after almost two full years of indecision, I finally pulled the trigger and bought myself a brand new inflatable stand-up paddle board (iSUP) earlier this month!
After an entire spring season of straight-from-the-farm local produce pick-ups, our CSA share has come to an end.
I wanted to take a second to share a little bit about our first experience with the Flagstaff CSA program — and share some of the recipes I threw together with some of the produce I received.
Well. Fire season came earlier than expected this year on my forest.
I know it’s not really a surprise. Most of the Southwest is in a 1,200-year drought, and we’ve been discussing preparedness levels (basically how many resources we have and how adequately those resources can support the number/scale/type of wildfires we’re dealing with) internally for the last several weeks, now.
On April 19, I got the call from our dispatch team that the Tunnel Fire — located about 14 miles northeast of Flagstaff — had rapidly expanded due to wind.
The fire went from a few acres to a few hundred acres to a few thousand acres in the span of a few hours, prompting rapid evacuations and the assembly of a full team of incident-qualified personnel.
The Tunnel Fire ended up as a Type 1 incident, which means we had to pull out all the stops and pull in a specialized Type 1 Incident Management Team trained to respond to large-scale and complex wildfires.
It’s been a minute!
I’ve been so busy with wrapping up my detail in northern California, onboarding for my new part-time gig as a yoga teacher here in Flagstaff, getting ready for fire season here in Flagstaff and fundraising for Ukraine that I haven’t had a chance to give an update on Yukon.
Good morning!
In case you missed my recent post… I’m a studio-employed yoga instructor again! I recently accepted a job offer with YogaSix’s new Flagstaff studio, and starting TODAY, you can book my Monday and/or Wednesday night power classes. I’ll be teaching “Y6 Power” (my own fast-paced vinyasa sequence) 6 p.m. Monday, and “Y6 Hot” (YogaSix’s 60-minute set sequence) 6 p.m. Wednesday. So exciting!
The classes are also all free to the public this week (three class max limit if you aren’t a studio member) while we settle in and work out the bugs and kinks in our new studio.
I wanted to take a second to talk about Bridge Training — aka, the training that all new YogaSix instructors are required to attend — and what my experience was like.
Hellooooo!
I haven’t really been posting about too many weekend adventures lately because, well, I haven’t had too many weekend adventures.
Instead of hiking around northern Arizona, I’ve been busy practicing yoga, building playlists, designing sequences and refining cues because…
…I’m going to be teaching studio yoga again!
Alright, I’m bringing this one back!
Sometimes I have a really hard time believing I used to run this thing like a fashion blog, because now that I’m A.) older, B.) stuck in a pandemic, C.) caring very, VERY little about what people think, D.) working a job that requires a uniform most days, and E.) more focused on sustainability, I wear a lot of the same things day in and day out.
This has been exacerbated by two recent(ish) stints living out of suitcases! If you don’t remember, I could only bring two checked bags with me to Peace Corps, and — while I brought more than two suitcases with me to my detail assignment on the Tahoe National Forest — I definitely packed light since I had to fit several months’ worth of stuff in the back of my two-door Jeep.
Several years ago, I did a fun little round-up post detailing the dozen or so most-worn objects in my closet every season. Even though I do pretty much wear the same things every day (most of which are detailed on the “Stuff Randi Likes” page), I sometimes invest in new things to wear and obsess over. So, I figured it might be worth bringing this little feature back.
Without further ado, here are the 12 things I’ve worn most this past winter.
