Brooke Condolora is an illustrator and quiet adventurer on an island in the San Francisco Bay.

May 13, 2013

The photos are from the Saturday half of our adventures over the weekend, celebrating our six-year anniversary. We hiked near Big Rock, over in Marin, where Ollie happily shoved his face into holes after lizards, walked over a snake, and wore home nearly 50 ticks. On Sunday, we went SUPing along the Alameda beach. Part I: Gliding along the shoreline with the wind at our backs, broken only by the frequent splashes of David falling in. Part II: Realizing we’d severely underestimated the difficulty of paddling back against the wind and waves and, instead, wading with our boards the entire mile and a half back up the shoreline. Somehow our adventures usually go sideways like that, but we don’t mind too much. We get a lot more laughter out of them.
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The photos are from the Saturday half of our adventures over the weekend, celebrating our six-year anniversary. We hiked near Big Rock, over in Marin, where Ollie happily shoved his face into holes after lizards, walked over a snake, and wore home nearly 50 ticks. On Sunday, we went SUPing along the Alameda beach. Part I: Gliding along the shoreline with the wind at our backs, broken only by the frequent splashes of David falling in. Part II: Realizing we’d severely underestimated the difficulty of paddling back against the wind and waves and, instead, wading with our boards the entire mile and a half back up the shoreline. Somehow our adventures usually go sideways like that, but we don’t mind too much. We get a lot more laughter out of them.
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The photos are from the Saturday half of our adventures over the weekend, celebrating our six-year anniversary. We hiked near Big Rock, over in Marin, where Ollie happily shoved his face into holes after lizards, walked over a snake, and wore home nearly 50 ticks. On Sunday, we went SUPing along the Alameda beach. Part I: Gliding along the shoreline with the wind at our backs, broken only by the frequent splashes of David falling in. Part II: Realizing we’d severely underestimated the difficulty of paddling back against the wind and waves and, instead, wading with our boards the entire mile and a half back up the shoreline. Somehow our adventures usually go sideways like that, but we don’t mind too much. We get a lot more laughter out of them.
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The photos are from the Saturday half of our adventures over the weekend, celebrating our six-year anniversary. We hiked near Big Rock, over in Marin, where Ollie happily shoved his face into holes after lizards, walked over a snake, and wore home nearly 50 ticks.

On Sunday, we went SUPing along the Alameda beach. Part I: Gliding along the shoreline with the wind at our backs, broken only by the frequent splashes of David falling in. Part II: Realizing we’d severely underestimated the difficulty of paddling back against the wind and waves and, instead, wading with our boards the entire mile and a half back up the shoreline.

Somehow our adventures usually go sideways like that, but we don’t mind too much. We get a lot more laughter out of them.

February 1, 2013

Friends from Los Angeles came up to visit last weekend (miss you guys!), and we spent some time exploring these crazy ruins in San Francisco called the Sutro Baths. If ruins alone weren’t appealing enough, there’s also a river otter named Sam living in one of the pools. And a cave.
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Friends from Los Angeles came up to visit last weekend (miss you guys!), and we spent some time exploring these crazy ruins in San Francisco called the Sutro Baths. If ruins alone weren’t appealing enough, there’s also a river otter named Sam living in one of the pools. And a cave.
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Friends from Los Angeles came up to visit last weekend (miss you guys!), and we spent some time exploring these crazy ruins in San Francisco called the Sutro Baths. If ruins alone weren’t appealing enough, there’s also a river otter named Sam living in one of the pools. And a cave.
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Friends from Los Angeles came up to visit last weekend (miss you guys!), and we spent some time exploring these crazy ruins in San Francisco called the Sutro Baths. If ruins alone weren’t appealing enough, there’s also a river otter named Sam living in one of the pools. And a cave.
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Friends from Los Angeles came up to visit last weekend (miss you guys!), and we spent some time exploring these crazy ruins in San Francisco called the Sutro Baths. If ruins alone weren’t appealing enough, there’s also a river otter named Sam living in one of the pools. And a cave.
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Friends from Los Angeles came up to visit last weekend (miss you guys!), and we spent some time exploring these crazy ruins in San Francisco called the Sutro Baths. If ruins alone weren’t appealing enough, there’s also a river otter named Sam living in one of the pools. And a cave.

January 4, 2013

David and I just returned from a very snowy visit to both our families. Christmas day found us under a blizzard warning—in Arkansas. It snowed hard all night, and we woke up to around a foot of snow, with drifts up to my knees. It was beautiful.
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David and I just returned from a very snowy visit to both our families. Christmas day found us under a blizzard warning—in Arkansas. It snowed hard all night, and we woke up to around a foot of snow, with drifts up to my knees. It was beautiful.
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David and I just returned from a very snowy visit to both our families. Christmas day found us under a blizzard warning—in Arkansas. It snowed hard all night, and we woke up to around a foot of snow, with drifts up to my knees. It was beautiful.
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David and I just returned from a very snowy visit to both our families. Christmas day found us under a blizzard warning—in Arkansas. It snowed hard all night, and we woke up to around a foot of snow, with drifts up to my knees. It was beautiful.
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David and I just returned from a very snowy visit to both our families. Christmas day found us under a blizzard warning—in Arkansas. It snowed hard all night, and we woke up to around a foot of snow, with drifts up to my knees. It was beautiful.
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David and I just returned from a very snowy visit to both our families. Christmas day found us under a blizzard warning—in Arkansas. It snowed hard all night, and we woke up to around a foot of snow, with drifts up to my knees. It was beautiful.

November 28, 2012

In the last three days of our trip, we discovered a crazy driftwood beach, got eaten by sandflies, stole a map (oops), fell in love with flat whites, heard an avalanche, found a hedgehog, saw more stars than ever in our lives, nearly wrecked our luge carts, and sadly packed up to go home. Best trip ever.
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In the last three days of our trip, we discovered a crazy driftwood beach, got eaten by sandflies, stole a map (oops), fell in love with flat whites, heard an avalanche, found a hedgehog, saw more stars than ever in our lives, nearly wrecked our luge carts, and sadly packed up to go home. Best trip ever.
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In the last three days of our trip, we discovered a crazy driftwood beach, got eaten by sandflies, stole a map (oops), fell in love with flat whites, heard an avalanche, found a hedgehog, saw more stars than ever in our lives, nearly wrecked our luge carts, and sadly packed up to go home. Best trip ever.
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In the last three days of our trip, we discovered a crazy driftwood beach, got eaten by sandflies, stole a map (oops), fell in love with flat whites, heard an avalanche, found a hedgehog, saw more stars than ever in our lives, nearly wrecked our luge carts, and sadly packed up to go home. Best trip ever.
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In the last three days of our trip, we discovered a crazy driftwood beach, got eaten by sandflies, stole a map (oops), fell in love with flat whites, heard an avalanche, found a hedgehog, saw more stars than ever in our lives, nearly wrecked our luge carts, and sadly packed up to go home. Best trip ever.
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In the last three days of our trip, we discovered a crazy driftwood beach, got eaten by sandflies, stole a map (oops), fell in love with flat whites, heard an avalanche, found a hedgehog, saw more stars than ever in our lives, nearly wrecked our luge carts, and sadly packed up to go home. Best trip ever.
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In the last three days of our trip, we discovered a crazy driftwood beach, got eaten by sandflies, stole a map (oops), fell in love with flat whites, heard an avalanche, found a hedgehog, saw more stars than ever in our lives, nearly wrecked our luge carts, and sadly packed up to go home. Best trip ever.
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In the last three days of our trip, we discovered a crazy driftwood beach, got eaten by sandflies, stole a map (oops), fell in love with flat whites, heard an avalanche, found a hedgehog, saw more stars than ever in our lives, nearly wrecked our luge carts, and sadly packed up to go home. Best trip ever.
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In the last three days of our trip, we discovered a crazy driftwood beach, got eaten by sandflies, stole a map (oops), fell in love with flat whites, heard an avalanche, found a hedgehog, saw more stars than ever in our lives, nearly wrecked our luge carts, and sadly packed up to go home. Best trip ever.
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In the last three days of our trip, we discovered a crazy driftwood beach, got eaten by sandflies, stole a map (oops), fell in love with flat whites, heard an avalanche, found a hedgehog, saw more stars than ever in our lives, nearly wrecked our luge carts, and sadly packed up to go home. Best trip ever.
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In the last three days of our trip, we discovered a crazy driftwood beach, got eaten by sandflies, stole a map (oops), fell in love with flat whites, heard an avalanche, found a hedgehog, saw more stars than ever in our lives, nearly wrecked our luge carts, and sadly packed up to go home.

Best trip ever.

November 21, 2012

This set of photos actually comes from just a few hours of our trip. But it deserves its own post, because WE CLIMBED A GLACIER. Fox Glacier is over on the west coast of the South Island, where it rains almost daily. In fact, it rained the whole time we were there, except during most of our all-day climb. It was beautiful.
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This set of photos actually comes from just a few hours of our trip. But it deserves its own post, because WE CLIMBED A GLACIER. Fox Glacier is over on the west coast of the South Island, where it rains almost daily. In fact, it rained the whole time we were there, except during most of our all-day climb. It was beautiful.
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This set of photos actually comes from just a few hours of our trip. But it deserves its own post, because WE CLIMBED A GLACIER. Fox Glacier is over on the west coast of the South Island, where it rains almost daily. In fact, it rained the whole time we were there, except during most of our all-day climb. It was beautiful.
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This set of photos actually comes from just a few hours of our trip. But it deserves its own post, because WE CLIMBED A GLACIER. Fox Glacier is over on the west coast of the South Island, where it rains almost daily. In fact, it rained the whole time we were there, except during most of our all-day climb. It was beautiful.
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This set of photos actually comes from just a few hours of our trip. But it deserves its own post, because WE CLIMBED A GLACIER. Fox Glacier is over on the west coast of the South Island, where it rains almost daily. In fact, it rained the whole time we were there, except during most of our all-day climb. It was beautiful.
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This set of photos actually comes from just a few hours of our trip. But it deserves its own post, because WE CLIMBED A GLACIER. Fox Glacier is over on the west coast of the South Island, where it rains almost daily. In fact, it rained the whole time we were there, except during most of our all-day climb. It was beautiful.
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This set of photos actually comes from just a few hours of our trip. But it deserves its own post, because WE CLIMBED A GLACIER. Fox Glacier is over on the west coast of the South Island, where it rains almost daily. In fact, it rained the whole time we were there, except during most of our all-day climb. It was beautiful.
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This set of photos actually comes from just a few hours of our trip. But it deserves its own post, because WE CLIMBED A GLACIER. Fox Glacier is over on the west coast of the South Island, where it rains almost daily. In fact, it rained the whole time we were there, except during most of our all-day climb. It was beautiful.
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This set of photos actually comes from just a few hours of our trip. But it deserves its own post, because WE CLIMBED A GLACIER. Fox Glacier is over on the west coast of the South Island, where it rains almost daily. In fact, it rained the whole time we were there, except during most of our all-day climb. It was beautiful.
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This set of photos actually comes from just a few hours of our trip. But it deserves its own post, because WE CLIMBED A GLACIER. Fox Glacier is over on the west coast of the South Island, where it rains almost daily. In fact, it rained the whole time we were there, except during most of our all-day climb. It was beautiful.
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This set of photos actually comes from just a few hours of our trip. But it deserves its own post, because WE CLIMBED A GLACIER.

Fox Glacier is over on the west coast of the South Island, where it rains almost daily. In fact, it rained the whole time we were there, except during most of our all-day climb. It was beautiful.

November 21, 2012

New Zealand! We packed so much into every day of our trip that I’m splitting my photos into multiple posts. This one: Queenstown, Glenorchy, and Arrowtown, where we explored, hiked, and did some horse “trekking.” So in love with that place. I could say so much, but I’ll keep it brief and stick to just photo captions.
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New Zealand! We packed so much into every day of our trip that I’m splitting my photos into multiple posts. This one: Queenstown, Glenorchy, and Arrowtown, where we explored, hiked, and did some horse “trekking.” So in love with that place. I could say so much, but I’ll keep it brief and stick to just photo captions.
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New Zealand! We packed so much into every day of our trip that I’m splitting my photos into multiple posts. This one: Queenstown, Glenorchy, and Arrowtown, where we explored, hiked, and did some horse “trekking.” So in love with that place. I could say so much, but I’ll keep it brief and stick to just photo captions.
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New Zealand! We packed so much into every day of our trip that I’m splitting my photos into multiple posts. This one: Queenstown, Glenorchy, and Arrowtown, where we explored, hiked, and did some horse “trekking.” So in love with that place. I could say so much, but I’ll keep it brief and stick to just photo captions.
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New Zealand! We packed so much into every day of our trip that I’m splitting my photos into multiple posts. This one: Queenstown, Glenorchy, and Arrowtown, where we explored, hiked, and did some horse “trekking.” So in love with that place. I could say so much, but I’ll keep it brief and stick to just photo captions.
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New Zealand! We packed so much into every day of our trip that I’m splitting my photos into multiple posts. This one: Queenstown, Glenorchy, and Arrowtown, where we explored, hiked, and did some horse “trekking.” So in love with that place. I could say so much, but I’ll keep it brief and stick to just photo captions.
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New Zealand! We packed so much into every day of our trip that I’m splitting my photos into multiple posts. This one: Queenstown, Glenorchy, and Arrowtown, where we explored, hiked, and did some horse “trekking.” So in love with that place. I could say so much, but I’ll keep it brief and stick to just photo captions.
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New Zealand! We packed so much into every day of our trip that I’m splitting my photos into multiple posts. This one: Queenstown, Glenorchy, and Arrowtown, where we explored, hiked, and did some horse “trekking.” So in love with that place. I could say so much, but I’ll keep it brief and stick to just photo captions.
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New Zealand! We packed so much into every day of our trip that I’m splitting my photos into multiple posts. This one: Queenstown, Glenorchy, and Arrowtown, where we explored, hiked, and did some horse “trekking.” So in love with that place. I could say so much, but I’ll keep it brief and stick to just photo captions.
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New Zealand! We packed so much into every day of our trip that I’m splitting my photos into multiple posts. This one: Queenstown, Glenorchy, and Arrowtown, where we explored, hiked, and did some horse “trekking.” So in love with that place. I could say so much, but I’ll keep it brief and stick to just photo captions.
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New Zealand! We packed so much into every day of our trip that I’m splitting my photos into multiple posts. This one: Queenstown, Glenorchy, and Arrowtown, where we explored, hiked, and did some horse “trekking.”

So in love with that place. I could say so much, but I’ll keep it brief and stick to just photo captions.

August 14, 2012

Our first official product as Brain&Brain is a book of film photography from our road trip up to Canada and back last year! We paired our photos (panoramic and square format) into diptychs by theme and location. And don’t worry: there are zero awkward photos of us posing in front of tourist attractions. We really don’t make much of an appearance at all, actually. You can take a look at a few of the spreads in the preview. P.S. The code “WONDERFUL” will get you 15% off through the end of August!
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Our first official product as Brain&Brain is a book of film photography from our road trip up to Canada and back last year! We paired our photos (panoramic and square format) into diptychs by theme and location. And don’t worry: there are zero awkward photos of us posing in front of tourist attractions. We really don’t make much of an appearance at all, actually. You can take a look at a few of the spreads in the preview. P.S. The code “WONDERFUL” will get you 15% off through the end of August!
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Our first official product as Brain&Brain is a book of film photography from our road trip up to Canada and back last year! We paired our photos (panoramic and square format) into diptychs by theme and location.

And don’t worry: there are zero awkward photos of us posing in front of tourist attractions. We really don’t make much of an appearance at all, actually. You can take a look at a few of the spreads in the preview.

P.S. The code “WONDERFUL” will get you 15% off through the end of August!

August 13, 2012

David and I just changed our business name from Inbetweeners to Brain&Brain! I’ve already shared the details on our Inbetweeners blog, so here I’ll just talk about my process in developing the logo. Initially, Brain&Brain was the name of a nerd shop we planned to start together. We were going to sell things like cross-stitched pixel art and “Live Long and Prosper” postcards, and I designed an Atari-inspired logo to match. But David wasn’t really sure how much he could contribute, and I didn’t really have time for a second shop, so the logo just sat on a “launching soon” page for a year. We loved the name, though. It was a reference to our favorite terrible line from this Star Trek episode, and it perfectly reflected our combo of logic (mostly him) and creativity (mostly me). So, when we started building Doggins together, it just fit. But the original logo wasn’t really my preferred style, and it needed a mark. I wanted a sort of 80’s game/tech vibe, sort of like Polytron’s logo and had been sketching ideas for months. But literal brains just look gross, and nothing else worked. I let my brain (heh) work on it in the background for a while, gave up, and then tried one last sketching session Friday morning. Ideas almost always come to me in the same chain of events, and this one followed suit: Coffee → Brainstorm → Exhaustion → Run/Shower → IDEA! Execution is the easy part. I stuck to the original stereoscopic color scheme (blue for logic/left brain, and red for creativity/right brain), and I kept the mark simple and iconic. The overlapping images also serve as a hat tip to Inbetweeners. We’re both much happier with the new logo (and name). Now I just need to find time to build the website, which may or may not be soon. Now, back to building this game.

David and I just changed our business name from Inbetweeners to Brain&Brain! I’ve already shared the details on our Inbetweeners blog, so here I’ll just talk about my process in developing the logo.

Initially, Brain&Brain was the name of a nerd shop we planned to start together. We were going to sell things like cross-stitched pixel art and “Live Long and Prosper” postcards, and I designed an Atari-inspired logo to match. But David wasn’t really sure how much he could contribute, and I didn’t really have time for a second shop, so the logo just sat on a “launching soon” page for a year.

We loved the name, though. It was a reference to our favorite terrible line from this Star Trek episode, and it perfectly reflected our combo of logic (mostly him) and creativity (mostly me). So, when we started building Doggins together, it just fit.

But the original logo wasn’t really my preferred style, and it needed a mark. I wanted a sort of 80’s game/tech vibe, sort of like Polytron’s logo and had been sketching ideas for months. But literal brains just look gross, and nothing else worked. I let my brain (heh) work on it in the background for a while, gave up, and then tried one last sketching session Friday morning.

Ideas almost always come to me in the same chain of events, and this one followed suit: Coffee → Brainstorm → Exhaustion → Run/Shower → IDEA!

Execution is the easy part. I stuck to the original stereoscopic color scheme (blue for logic/left brain, and red for creativity/right brain), and I kept the mark simple and iconic. The overlapping images also serve as a hat tip to Inbetweeners.

We’re both much happier with the new logo (and name). Now I just need to find time to build the website, which may or may not be soon.

Now, back to building this game.

August 8, 2012

The best workdays leave sand in my toes. (Taken with Instagram)

The best workdays leave sand in my toes. (Taken with Instagram)

July 31, 2012

We got back last night from a visit to Arkansas to see my family, who I already miss again. A weekend just isn’t long enough. They’re in the midst of the worst drought and longest stretch of 100º+ weather I’ve ever seen, which means my parents are having a rough time with the farm. What little hay they had this year is gone, and if rain doesn’t come soon, they’ll have to start selling some of the forty cows they’ve raised from calves over the years. We helped them move the cows down the road to the last remaining pasture with grass, for which they’d had to repair broken fences in the summer heat. But they don’t complain: they just work hard with what they have. A few hours before we left for the airport, it was 111º. My dad was outside in the sun, setting up a pen and saddling a horse so he could give David a quick riding lesson. And my mom was standing over the stove, frying sopapillas because she missed making them for me. I love my family.
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We got back last night from a visit to Arkansas to see my family, who I already miss again. A weekend just isn’t long enough. They’re in the midst of the worst drought and longest stretch of 100º+ weather I’ve ever seen, which means my parents are having a rough time with the farm. What little hay they had this year is gone, and if rain doesn’t come soon, they’ll have to start selling some of the forty cows they’ve raised from calves over the years. We helped them move the cows down the road to the last remaining pasture with grass, for which they’d had to repair broken fences in the summer heat. But they don’t complain: they just work hard with what they have. A few hours before we left for the airport, it was 111º. My dad was outside in the sun, setting up a pen and saddling a horse so he could give David a quick riding lesson. And my mom was standing over the stove, frying sopapillas because she missed making them for me. I love my family.
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We got back last night from a visit to Arkansas to see my family, who I already miss again. A weekend just isn’t long enough. They’re in the midst of the worst drought and longest stretch of 100º+ weather I’ve ever seen, which means my parents are having a rough time with the farm. What little hay they had this year is gone, and if rain doesn’t come soon, they’ll have to start selling some of the forty cows they’ve raised from calves over the years. We helped them move the cows down the road to the last remaining pasture with grass, for which they’d had to repair broken fences in the summer heat. But they don’t complain: they just work hard with what they have. A few hours before we left for the airport, it was 111º. My dad was outside in the sun, setting up a pen and saddling a horse so he could give David a quick riding lesson. And my mom was standing over the stove, frying sopapillas because she missed making them for me. I love my family.
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We got back last night from a visit to Arkansas to see my family, who I already miss again. A weekend just isn’t long enough.

They’re in the midst of the worst drought and longest stretch of 100º+ weather I’ve ever seen, which means my parents are having a rough time with the farm. What little hay they had this year is gone, and if rain doesn’t come soon, they’ll have to start selling some of the forty cows they’ve raised from calves over the years. We helped them move the cows down the road to the last remaining pasture with grass, for which they’d had to repair broken fences in the summer heat. But they don’t complain: they just work hard with what they have.

A few hours before we left for the airport, it was 111º. My dad was outside in the sun, setting up a pen and saddling a horse so he could give David a quick riding lesson. And my mom was standing over the stove, frying sopapillas because she missed making them for me.

I love my family.