Yesterday

at one of my favorite beaches in the area. After a couple chilly, foggy days, yesterday and today were really nice.

 Adam's first face

Adam's second face

I'm blowin' my dough and goin' deluxe...

Well, I bought flowers at the farmers market today anyway, which I've wanted to do since we moved here but which always seemed frivolous, and Adam bought a bunch of organic vegetables that I'm looking forward to!

Here are all the blackberries Adam could reach (with the help of a chair) that are growing over the fence from our neighbor's yard. They were delicious, but there weren't nearly enough!

My idea of a good Saturday night. Adam, home fries, un peu de vin (du vin?), scrabble (after this picture I played queens/swore with queens on a triple word; it was a lucky game for me), and good music. I think I was interrupting Adam's train of thought here...

Friday!

Kiki likes to yell at me for awhile when I get home to make me feel bad for being gone all day (and so that I give her plenty of pets of course!). I actually thought it wouldn't warm up today, but finally around 5:30 the sun came out and it's pretty nice. For a bit anyway... Turns out I have another three day weekend, but I'm going to go in for an hour or so on Monday to meet with the psychologist. Technically it's a furlow day for me, and I'm not allowed to be there, but this way I'll get a little overtime on a different day (on my time card anyway).
There are some slow times during my days, but for the most part things are going well. Working 6.5 hours a day is pretty nice actually. I get home and still have time left for myself. And it's nice not having any work to bring home with me. Hopefully my brain won't get too weak! 

The sun is actually out...

At the marsh today.

One week down...

Adam joined the History Club, and I finished my first week of work! I think it's going to be an interesting year. I'm a one-on-one instructional aide for a junior, and he is a great kid. His thing is movies, so I'm sure I'll learn a lot about them. I didn't see myself working in a high school (and to be honest some of the kids are already getting on my nerves), but it'll be good. And I have a job! I don't seem to be adjusted to waking up early again yet though...

Fresh Fruit!

Apples! and a pear. Unfortunately, no one seems to have taken care of the trees in a while, so there isn't much fruit. But the apples are great! The pears aren't quite ripe yet, and there's only a few, but I'm sure they'll be good too. I kind of feel bad for taking all of the ripe fruit, but it doesn't seem like anyone else is eating it...
This could be the beginning of starting my blog again. Maybe I'll just post pictures. We'll see...

Trying again

Well, I can't say I've been too successful with my blog lately....


Adam finished this model today that he'd been working on for awhile. Looks awesome!

This is our last month in Santa Cruz... We got a place in Arcata, which seems like it's going to be great!