Recent Outdoor Adventures

The days are so long now! It's light before I get up, and light well after the kid is supposed to be in bed. It's been effecting both of our sleep schedules, but not too badly.

We have been having many picnics lately. We get takeout from somewhere and eat in on a blanket in the park. It's so nice. It still keeps us socially distanced, but we get to eat restaurant food and get out of the house for a while. The Bay Area is still pretty locked down. Open air dinning is just starting to be a thing here.

There was one bad thing that happened on a picnic, the kid got her 1st bee sting! She must have just put her had down right on top of a bee. It was unpleasant experience for us all. We took her right home, and got her an ice pack to help with the swelling and she sat with one hand on the ice pack and played phone games with the other for long time. She recovered quickly and seemed fine now, but shes a bit wary of bees on our walks.

Since things are slightly opening up we have formed a social bubble with my parents and brother. Our social bubbles are very limited -- we can hang out together outside while masked. But I have now gone on several walks with my family, which has been lovely.

The kid still loves visiting the fish pond in our neighborhood. This week they have added about a dozen little fish to the pound, which is very exciting. Most of them are orange, but a few are black and one is white with orange spots.