We’ve been short on day-to-day updates recently. Here are some pictures taken in the last couple of months, with some of the things we’ve been up to.

Ruth took a bread class, and has been baking a ton of delicious bread:

We’ve had lovely warm-but-not-hot weather … well, pretty much since we got here. But the last few weeks have been great grilling weather:

(That’s before. During picture here. The food didn’t last long enough after for a picture.)

Ruth advanced to candidacy a couple of weeks ago. Afterward, we went to Santa Barbara for a relaxing weekend away. We didn’t get many pictures, except for while we toured the botanical gardens there. These are particularly cool gardens, because they’ve made an effort to showcase the types of plants that occur naturally in central and southern California. Because Irvine is both very dry and very aggressively landscaped, it was easy for us to live here for almost two years and have very little exposure to native wildlife. Outside of trips to comparatively barren places like Anza-Borrego and Chino Hills, we haven’t seen very much native plantlife. So, it was really cool to see the redwoods, cacti, orchids, and so on.

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