I haven’t been “feeling” the blog in a while. In fact, I’m not sure I’m feeling it now either, to be honest. This might be a one-off post.

Anyways, a lot of time has past since the last post on July 31 of last year, so here are the highlights of what’s happened since:

August

We spent lots of time with our moms. Some on Bainbridge, some in Oregon. In between, we kept running (sometimes outside, sometimes on a treadmill that we had shipped to MIL’s in Oregon). We ran 19 times for about 106 miles. Wow. I didn’t realize we did so much.  We also spent some time in Walla Walla to see if it might be a place we could settle down (spoiler: it isn’t).

Also, we bought a car. And orange car. And it’s awesome.

September

We spent the entire month at my mom’s place on Bainbridge, running at Battle Point Park. It’s a nice park with a 1.5 mile path. Not much else happened. We ran 14 days for 68 miles. A bit less because a few injuries slowed us down.

October

First off, I raided the frequent flier accounts and bought tickets for our next adventure. I guess that settling down and being normal will have to wait. I started getting very sweaty palms when we were thinking about buying another house. So… yeah, the adventure continues.

We got to fly down to Ojai and see my sister and her brood, including the newest nephew. We had a really nice time visiting my family and family friends. After that, we visited Husband’s family in Oregon again.

We ran 21 times for 94 miles total. Pretty decent!

November

It’s Panettone season again. And I baked a lot (a lot!) of them. And some were really good and some were awful failures. Some even ended up in the trash before they were baked. But mostly they worked and were good. I was able to borrow a stand mixer which made the whole process a lot easier and at least a little bit faster, but not always more successful than doing it all by hand.

We flew to southern California and spent Thanksgiving with my brother and his family. It was my first time traveling for Thanksgiving and it was oppressively hot. We didn’t run at all. We barely walked. It was almost 100 degrees. But it was fun. We like visiting family.

We ran 16 times for 55 miles. Meh.

December

After having such a fun time seeing my sister and her kids, we had all planned to meet in Ojai again before Christmas. Unfortunately, about a week before then, the huge Thomas wildfire started and wreaked havoc on the area, so those plans were scrapped. We are very relieved that all our friends and family in the area are safe and accounted for… and somehow Ojai was spared the worst of the fire.

We met Husband’s mom and sister on the Oregon coast for Christmas. We rented a house and spent a few days together. We made a yummy Christmas prime rib with yorkshire puddings. We ate and drank too much. Fun was had. We ran one day on the beach. Why is running on the beach so hard ??? (and slow? Answer: wind and sand.) After that, we met again down in southern Oregon for an extra few days. And we ran on the dreadmill.

We ran 21 times for 103 miles. Wow!

January

We ran a lot in January (21 times for 81 miles). And prepped for our trip. And payed taxes. And other fun stuff like that.

And there you have it. Our last 6 months in a few sentences. We aren’t that exciting. Apparently, there wasn’t much to write about anyways. Also, I have pictures I’d like to add to this, but my WordPress app seems to be on the fritz again, so maybe I’ll be able to update this with something… eventually.