Hello all! It’s been a little bit since the last post, and so I thought I would just write a little something here since Memorial Day weekend is coming to a close.
It’s been a busy past few weeks and weekends (surprise, surprise!), but life goes on. It just never feels like there is enough time in the day to get everything we want done, but I think just about everyone our age feels the same way (maybe). This past weekend, we did a Siblings Roadtrip up the coast, traveling through Santa Barbara, Solvang, Santa Maria, Pismo Beach, San Luis Obispo, and San Simeon, and then back home again to have a Memorial Day BBQ and spend time with our parents. After that, we came home for some R&R, as our vacations are rarely anything but relaxing! Hehe.
We have a lot of posts in the works, they just haven’t left our brains and our phones to make it to the Bearhouse blog just yet. Some exciting posts coming up are:
- Amsterdam and Belgium travel post (this monkey on my back just won’t quit! I started the post but just need to keep chipping away at it)
- Grand Canyon travel post (Tim, Charlie, Winnie, and I all traveled to the Grand Canyon about a month ago during my spring break. It was fun… and exhausting camping with two dogs. This short post is also forthcoming)
- Siblings Roadtrip post (this is the trip we JUST took. I’ll give myself sometime before I post this. Or see if it’s easier to post when it’s still fresh in my brain)
- Doghouse post (Tim built a doghouse over the past couple months… It was necessary but at the same time, completely over the top. He built a foundational platform, framing, it has a staircase, shingled roof, and a deck on top. Tentative name: Cattle Dog Clubhouse – “No cats allowed!”)
- More recipe posts – apparently, the Air Fryer Waffle Fries post is my most popular post! I think I need to capitalize on this and maybe post more recipe posts. Some things I’m thinking about are vegetarian sausage pasta (AKA snausta) or some other veggie pasta dishes that I’ve made. We’ll see.
But really, I need to get cracking on these posts since we have a busy summer up ahead. Tim is about to get every other Friday off as well, and we’ll be checking out things in Southern California this summer, so the sooner we can get these posts up, the sooner we can post about other things.
The other thing that I wanted to mention is that I just completed my 2018 photo album. A goal of mine last January 2018 was to create a vehicle for photographic memories that I could look back on easily. It’s fine to have photos on your phone and when the moment strikes, you can scroll back through the years at your leisure, but if you’re like me, you have 9,000+ photos on your phone and then you end up only looking at the same photos over and over because you have so many it’s impossible to really look at them all.
I ended up purchasing this photo album on Amazon, which worked fine for me. It holds 300 4×6 photos, which seemed like plenty if I allotted 25 photos per month. I just finished putting photos in (literally 30 minutes ago), and I had 13 photo spaces remaining. I essentially went through ALL my photos (phone and DSLR camera combined), added the ones I liked to an album on Costco.com, and printed them all. I did January through July last August, and then was working on August through Christmas for the last… maybe 9 months.
I’m not gonna say it was easy to do, but I WILL say that it is definitely rewarding! My sister does photo books every year through Shutterfly, but I found this to be more my speed. This album gave me a small space to write a quick blurb or memo, so I tried to be specific with pictures so that in 20 years when I look at this with my kids, I’ll be able to tell them where I was and who I was with and what I was doing.
This experience makes my memories feel a little more tangible and a little more memorable–if it was a good experience (or at least an important one), it made the cut! I think this will make some of my 2018 experiences something I can actually physically look back on, and something I can show my (future) children when they (and me) are older. I definitely hope that I can be a bit quicker with my 2019 album (start it promptly in July), so that I don’t get 9 months behind like I did for this one. We’ll see!
Anyways, until next time!
– Sara
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