February 5, 2024 Precipitation in inches across California. Screenshot courtesy of The Weather Channel App. It’s funny, Kyria – who lives relatively close to me, but much closer to the coast – also wrote about the weather yesterday. I had mentioned in an earlier post that I thought our January...
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Last weekend, I was invited along for a girls’ weekend in the snow. If you recall, I went with my friend Susi and some of her friends to Tahoe once before. One of her friends owns a vacation home in Truckee and I was thrilled to get up to the...
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On Saturday, Jon and I went to Cool Patch Pumpkins. It’s the first time in a few years that we went and I had been insisting that we have to go in October. What I didn’t know was we were going to have another heatwave on the first weekend of...
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My friend Susi invited me along for a girls’ weekend with some of her mom friends from German School. We were headed to Tahoe over the MLK holiday weekend and stayed at U’s vacation home in Truckee. I was thrilled to get up to the mountains during winter time and...
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Hello friends. I just thought I would come on here and ramble for a little bit and tell you about my weekend. How was your Labor Day weekend? I didn’t know that Labor Day apparently officially marks the last day of summer, although that couldn’t be farther from the truth...
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J and I had talked about an overnight trip for who knows how long. So a couple of weeks ago, we finally just said, enough, let’s go. Since it was going to be a hot weekend in Sacramento, it was a good time to get away. Saturday morning, we headed...
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Last week, I visited my #fromURLtoIRL friend Tanja in Southern California and I had such a fantastic time! Tanja, like me, is a German (dual) citizen and we’ve “immigrated” around the same time (2006/2007), however, I got my green card through marriage (as you know), but Tanja (and her husband...
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A week ago, I ran the (1st) SF half marathon again. This race has become one of my favorite races (albeit an expensive one) because it combines a great race with a fun weekend in San Francisco. I was lucky that I signed up last year at the bargain price of...
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Last weekend was an ordinary weekend, but I still feel compelled to share a quick recap. Just because it felt like our first real summer weekend, I guess, and because it was fun and I didn’t want the weekend to end and because I want to do it all over...
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If you follow me on Instagram, you know that I spent Memorial Day weekend in Washington, D.C. to attend a friend’s wedding. I was barely there for 48 hours and it was a long-ass flight for such a short amount of time, but when I made the decision to go...
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