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Bryan and I got it together enough on Friday to make it out to the beach, but aside from that we’ve just been at home, bouncing from one lazy activity to the next: dabbling in low-commitment home improvement projects, shucking a few oysters, catching up on blogs, experimenting with beer cocktails (3 parts hefeweizen + [...]

Bryan and I keep meaning to return to our honeymoon spot for our anniversary, but we haven’t yet been able to justify the price tag. Instead, this year we boarded the dog and spent a whole weekend indulging in our favorite things. We documented our day in the city fairly well in the usual place.

Well, Bryan ritualistically celebrated his departure from Berkeley and graduate school.

I cut my hair off, again.

Our tomato plants got taller.

And we engaged in some light home-improvement projects.

More where that came from, here.

Bryan and I are off on our multi-stage Christmas journey, starting with a train trip to Colorado, some Klingner-family cabin festivities, and then, for the Texas leg, Dallas and the Hall ranch. It’s a much-needed vacation!
I leave you with our family holiday photo, courtesy of Clare, who got Sous the best Christmas gift ever: antlers.

Someone finished his PhD yesterday.

It’s been a busy fall so far, and while we’ve had time for some house-based projects, we haven’t even begun to think about plans for the backyard. Other than installing and making good use of our excellent grill. Regardless of our neglect, all sorts of interesting plants are popping up in our backyard, big:

and small:

In [...]

My parents just made their first visit to California since our wedding, and a good time was had by all. Lots of eating and drinking and some home-based projects like assembling a swanky grill (their house-warming gift) and refinishing our dining room table (fumes in an unventilated room WOO!). We also visited Alcatraz and made [...]

Before I talk about anything else, I should probably just post for the record that hey! we moved! like, a month ago! An album of the new and old places is up on gallery. We are very happy with five rooms instead of two and a half, and Sous is busy finding new and delicious [...]

Our honeymoon venue gets a mention at the top of the NYTimes website, unfortunately because it’s threatened by wildfires. Guess you can never go back.
In other news, we leave tomorrow for our mountain vacation, Colorado by way of Lake Tahoe and Wyoming. Does occasionally remembering to bring our own bags to the supermarket make up [...]

While everyone else I know has been engaged in a flurry of wedding attendance for at least a few years, in my adult life I had only attended one–my little sister’s, hi Cam!–before my own. But now I’m finally joining the party(ies); I’ll be slurring toasts and stepping on feet five times in the next [...]