You guys, I had a wonderful, fantastic birthday weekend. Except for spending time with family and friends, there is nothing else I could have wished for. I started Saturday morning off with a hot shower, birthday marble muffins and fresh coffee. Then I opened my birthday cards and a few presents...
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J and I had a four-day weekend and decided to take the opportunity to get out of town for two days. Since we both have been to large parts of the Californian Coast, but not the stretch between Monterey and Half Moon Bay, we decided to make Santa Cruz our...
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J and I decided to take a little road trip up the Foothills on Saturday to explore Placerville. Placerville is a Gold Rush city and it was “[…] formerly known as Dry Diggin’s after the manner in which the miners moved cartloads of dry soil to running water to separate the gold...
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{source: my flickr} Whenever I start a weekend recap with the words “well, we didn’t actually do very much”, it’s usually a weekend that is considered very good in my book. It usually doesn’t mean that I didn’t get anything done, it just means we didn’t have anything planned that...
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It finally rained. This is a very strange winter, to say the least. We hardly had any precipitation here in Northern California in all November and December, which is very unusual and – honestly – very bad for California. We need our snow pack in the Sierras. Not just for...
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{source: my flickr} This last weekend, while busy, was a weekend after my own heart. It was the last weekend that J and I would be spending at our cozy apartment this year, since we will be leaving for SoCal next weekend, and it was just wonderful. I had a...
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On Saturday, J and I went to a football game. It has become somewhat of a tradition for us to attend the Causeway Classic Football Game and I therefore consider it our “must-go-to”-event of the year. The Causeway Classic is the annual Football Game between the UC Davis Aggies and...
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So, tell me – how was your Halloween weekend? Did you do something fun? Did you go to a Halloween party? Did you dress up? J and I didn’t really have any plans, so our weekend ended up being pretty laid-back and – to J’s dislike – not very scary....
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