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6/29/2020 – Monday

Another hot and humid morning here in North Florida. We got out right before dawn, so I had to soak myself in bug spray — the mosquitoes are back in force, and very distracting. Given that our walks are generally 1) in Florida and 2) near a body of water it becomes...

6/28/2020 – Sunday

Ahhh, summer continues its slow, relentless assault. While it was still below 80°F when we got out around 7:30 am, it was also humid. As Poppa would say, a “pea soup” kind of feel to the air: thick and viscous. Bleargh. Keely is showing her age, walking slowly through...

6/25/2020 – Thursday

After the heavy rains of yesterday, this morning was suitably hot and humid, even with getting out at 6am. A friend reminded me last night that we have now passed the summer solstice, which means the dog days of summer are upon us even as the days grow shorter again....

6/24/2020 – Wednesday

Florida is a disaster and a half right now, and I have a lot of curse words I could add to that, but suffice to say that my anxiety is rocketing pretty high. Self-soothing self-care is the operative policy of the day…most days in fact. Which includes walking Keely...

6/19/2020 – Friday

I felt terrible half the night so that by the time I did fall asleep I went down like a stone in water. I ended up oversleeping and in the end was even late signing into work. Which means this morning’s photograph was taken well past dawn, at about 8:30 am. Florida’s...

6/18/2020 – Thursday

Today is the day of zoom meetings, I’ll be in meetings from basically 11:30am to 5pm — working from home, I have attended more meetings in three months than I have actually had meetings at the office in the last three years! Ha!It was another cool(ish) morning and I...