My morning routine of coffee and journaling on the front porch is pushed back a bit day by day as sunrise comes later and later. It rained a bit overnight and it’s lovely, cool and damp this particular morning.

Good job, monsoon sunrise.

We rounded out our birthdays week here with s’mores of homemade, gluten free graham crackers and allergy-friendly chocolate!

Yesterday was a pretty good one-more-year milestone: A tough early workout followed by nature’s perfect food – the breakfast burrito – some Destiny 2 time with kiddo, a tremendous monsoon storm in the afternoon, and dinner of this amazing pork confit bánh mi.

This big honkin’ mushroom is loving our rainy monsoon season.

Last night’s monsoon season sunset showing off.

It’s Friday! I’m starting my last day of this vacation week with a big workout and an equally big breakfast burrito.

Gunnison relaxes on the porch while keeping an eye out for anything suspicious, like birds or squirrels.

The view from my most recent dawn paddle over on the reservoir.

I got coffee and breakfast with my sister, at Ogden’s Kaffee Mercantile yesterday morning. It’s a lovely spot in the neighborhood where I grew up.