I have quite a few photos on my phone to post, so I thought we’d start out with a look at the second half of September. We’ve had the flooring in our basement bathroom refinished. Here’s it with tiles installed but before the fittings were put back in. We definitely…

We’re going to split into a few timelines and universes here as C and the Kennymen go from having a lot of together time to spreading out again. First, we left off with Miles heading off on a cross country drive to Minneapolis then Portland. It was a long trip…

Miles has been working at Big Guy’s Sausage Stand in Berwyn since June with his friend Dylan. Dylan’s dad owns Big Guy’s, and she told us that while her dad is the big guy in Big Guy’s, the name is also a tribute to a friend of his who was…

This is jumping around chronologically a bit, but it only seems fair to start with a definition of derecho, since it’s in the title. A derecho is a system of severe thunderstorms that move straight in one direction, namely from Iowa to us, and in this case last Monday. All…

I’ll start off with a photo with the theme we ended on in the last post, with a new colleague in my kitchen office enjoying the swivel chair. Liam has moved in for a month to fill the gap between his old apartment lease ending and before the new lease…

It’s great to be able to spend so much time outside as we have been. The weather has been great, if pretty hot for a few days this month, and we’ve been able to spend as much time outdoors as possible. Definitely the theme as I went through the photos…

We’re just finishing up the holiday weekend, which all felt a bit freeform this year. But I’m hugely grateful to have had 4 days off work in a row, it was very restorative! I didn’t post last week so I’ll start with some photos from then. Our animal sightings have…

We had a good week around the northern hemisphere’s Summer Solstice on Saturday (nod to Colette’s blog post title this week!) Sunrise is around 5:20am this week, and sunset is around 8:30pm. We’re enjoying the nice long days, and it’s really feeling like summer here now. In the last week,…

This was a quiet week for us, so I thought I’d focus on Miles’s road trip. He and Dylan went on a road trip from Chicago to the Outer Banks, North Carolina, as part of a family vacation that her family takes there every year. They drove there in two…

Any lead-in here is going to be in sharp contrast to our last post, where Covid-19 was still the main news and birdwatching felt like one of the only things going on. So to warm up with a quick creature report, we’ve noticed that a lot of the migratory birds…