Week 23

Welcome back! Summer just started and I already feel like it's slipping away. Hopefully moving forward I can enjoy more of it.

Until then here are last week's pictures:

Day 153- Monday, 6/2/25 

After a little bit of work this morning, three of us were able to escape the lab and attend our lab assistant's wedding.  Congratulations to her and her groom! It was wonderful to experience a wedding cermony from a different culture and learn all about their traditions and rituals.

Day 154- Tuesday, 6/3/25

Tonight we had a fun and cool dog training class all done inside a large Ace Hardware store.  Our trainer got permission from the owner and staff.  They were very accommodating and super excited to have us there.  It was a great place for learning to behave around a lot of distractions and encounters with new people.  Bailey can't wait to go back.

Day 155- Wednesday, 6/4/25

After work today I had a consult with a surgeon about the ultrasound results for my hernia.  I do have one but it's too small to do anything about just yet so we'll play the waiting game and just keep an eye on it for now.  Back at home I noticed that this plant which had died over the winter and came back nicely during spring now has flowers on it again!  This is a great thing to see and hopefully a sign of more great things to come.

Day 156- Thursday, 6/5/25

Look at our pool at night!  John found this neat, solar-powered, floating projection-light that makes a fun pattern on the water after dark.  How cool is that!

 Day 157- Friday, 6/6/25

TGIF!  It's been a full week but at least there were some different and fun things going on in between my crazy and demanding work projects.  Cheers to the weekend!  We settled down after dinner with a nice cocktail and a good movie that just dropped for streaming on Prime.

Day 158- Saturday, 6/7/25

Time to go out with some friends.  We hit up a local winery first and then went to Old Sacramento on the river for some surf and turf at Joe's Crab Shack.  We'll see this same group again in a couple weeks for a different outing near where they live.

Day 159- Sunday, 6/8/25

The day or rest!  We needed it today for sure.  I had laundry going but otherwise it was a chill day hanging with the pets.

That's all for now and hopefully we'll see you back next week.

Week 22

Welcome back! This week has been crazy busy so I'm running behind with getting last week's pictures out and now that it's Saturday I at least have the the worst of everything else behind me and can catch up.

Here are the pictures from the last week (seems so long ago now):

 

Day 146- Monday, 5/26/25

 

Happy Memorial Day and we're so grateful to those who have given their lives to help defend and serve our country.  It was a nice cooler day so I took advantage of that and the extra time off to get more yard work done.  Sadly today was too cold for any pool time but we did grill up some burgers and dogs to enjoy for dinner.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 147- Tuesday, 5/27/25

Back to the grind.  All my cultures are more than ready to be fed after the 3-day weekend.  I also heard from Brandon who is officially finished with his 3rd year of college and took a fun break from work to go to Disneyland with a new friend.  He hasn't been there in over in 10 years so it was great for him to go again and see it in a new light as a young adult.  I ended the day here with Bailey at training class in one of Woodland's shaded parks.  All the dogs love new adventures at new places and when they can go together it's not quite as unsettling and more exciting.  She loves her training pack.

Day 148- Wednesday, 5/28/25

The crazy heat is starting to creep back in but we still got a decent evening walk out while making sure to stay in the shade and off of any hot pavement.  We have to watch those dog paws so they don't burn!  During one of our stops for a good sniff Bailey found this perfectly heart-shaped leaf on the sidewalk.  She tired to eat it but I think it's stuck there so we took a picture of it instead. 🍃💛

Day 149- Thursday, 5/29/25

Bailey doesn't care what the forecast says.  She will stare me down while waiting for her walk.  I usually distract her long enough for the sun to start to going down first so we at least have more shade but not going at all is not an option for her.  She needs to get any extra energy out so she can settle for the rest of the night.

 

Day 150- Friday, 5/30/25

TGIF!  Here's an amazing tree at work I passed while going to another building in search of a missing package (happens a lot on campus).  This tree is so big and expansive! I'm standing on the second level and it's base is down on the level below--reminds me of the Tree of Life.  Back at home Bailey and I were checking out this second tree that had a squirrel in it who was very intent on watching us.  He stayed so still for so long I figured I might as well take a picture.

Day 151- Saturday, 5/31/25

It's the last day in May and we are setting a May high heat record here.  The best way to deal with that was to spend a lot of time at the air-conditioned movie theater.  The new Mission Impossible movie just premiered and was over 3 hours long so that did the trick.

 

 

Day 152- Sunday, 6/1/25

Welcome to June!  John worked hard the past couple weeks to get our pool cleaned and ready for summer.  The water temp is still a bit cold but the hotter air temps will help fix that real quick.  Hopefully next weekend we can give it a try.  While out back I also found this pinecone that one of the squirrels really did a number on.  Must be good eats for them. Can't say I've seen this before but we do have more squirrels in and around our yard this year.  There were a lot of new babies born n the early spring that are now taking over our fence-line and trees.

 

That's it for now and I'll see you next week in just a few days.