Pine Valley Ranch

Well, today was a waste. We didn't want to go anywhere, since it was the day they were coming to inspect the apartment. The notice we got said anytime between 9 and 5... and they got here at 4:06. :/

So we did NOTHING all damn day. (I got up early, hid the toad, did a little more neatening up. Alex ran an errand. I took a nap.) The inspection itself was opening and closing all the cabinets, testing the garbage disposal, and making sure the burners on the stove worked. There was a cursory look over everything else, but it took all of 90 seconds, so it was absolutely a waste to have waited around for.

BUT. Yesterday we *did* go on a hike. I'd wanted to do one of our farther away options... but then the dog was being slightly explosive when he went out in the morning. So we decided that we should go somewhere he could come with, so there wouldn't be an unpleasant surprise when we got back, and because usually that's a stress thing, and being home alone stresses him out. Unfortunately, that ruled out most of our options.

So we picked one of the county parks we hadn't been to before. It's a little farther into the mountains than we usually go: Pine Valley Ranch. We picked it because it has lots of water access, and Cy likes to wade.


The river as you cross the bridge to the trails.


A very cute bumblebee on some wildflowers. (Asters of some type, I think.)

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Habit Tracking: Week 33 (August 15 - August 21)

(It's a two-post day! I'm *hoping* we won't have another nothing-day, though we'll see, but I want to get last week's tracker posted.)


This week is a pair of adorable foxes, from a sticker sheet Alex unearthed while he was cleaning.
And now I will regret it forever, because they're very poofy, and now the pages in the notebook don't lay flat, lol.

This week was better than the one before it. I did lose a good chunk of the week to that probable-migraine. I also still very much struggled with doing much of anything on a lot of days after work, but I felt better about my time at work. Looking at the tracked habits themselves, they weren't great. The time spent with Taylor at the beginning of the week was definitely the highlight! And I was able to power through the week knowing I had my time off coming up!

My additional goals for the week:
- I FINALLY FINISHED CHAPTER 9 OF STEFFI'S BOOK
- I did hang out with Taylor :)
- I didn't get back to writing Connections of the Heart
- I did finish Calculated Risk
- I caught up on DW after having fallen very behind
- And I caught up on the habit tracking, having fallen several days behind on it, too

Tracked habits:
- Work - 5/7
- Household Maintenance - 0/7, oof
- Physical Activity - 0/7, more oof
- Wrote 500/1000+ Words - 0/7, which is oofest of all
- Meta Work - 2/7
- Personal Writing - 7/7, though two were pretty weak
- Other Creative Things - 2/7, mainly working on my friend's book
- Reading - 6/7, mostly physical books
- Video Games - 2/7, playing Hades with Taylor
- Social Interaction - 6/7

Total words of fiction written: 0