Pining for the Fjords

As you probably know (if you know us at all), we love food.  We love cooking food and having food cooked for us, we love fancy food and trashy food, we love eating food at home and going out and eating food in restaurants or out of trucks or off grills in parks - you get the idea.  Since we've always done a fair amount of cooking at home, and we enjoy it, we've toyed in the past with the idea of a meal kit delivery service like Hello Fresh or Blue Apron; however, since you used to have to sign up for four-five meals each week (and we were actually going places and doing things fairly often back in the Before Times), we were worried we'd end up wasting the food and the money we'd spend on the service.   And then this little thing called COVID-19 happened.  Right-o. Due to the events of the past year, we've been spending more time eating food at home than ever; although we still grab takeout or run up our rewards points on Uber Eats twice a week or so, most of our mea

Don't forget Part 2 !  In the last blog, we hiked all over Palm Springs - up the North Lykken Trail, down the Museum Trail, then back to Arlene via BevMo! After our hike, which involved hand carrying our beer haul the half-mile or so back to the camper (Chris took most of it in a leftover wine box, but I convinced him to let me help out with a few six packs), we chilled out for the afternoon, getting cleaned up, taking naps, reading, and just generally hanging out.   Cheers to relaxing outside, watching the clouds go by, and tasting some of our beer selections from BevMo! Attempting to set up our camp hammock,  to no avail.   One end was fine tied in the bed of the truck, but we didn't have anything 1) tall enough and 2) strong enough for the other end. Chris made a good attempt with the picnic table, but when he sat down in the hammock and that dragged the table sideways by a few feet, we packed in the experiment. Me: "Whatcha doing?" Chris: "Looking at the pla