by Ira | Jun 10, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
Loooonnnggg day. Got up early to walk the pups before it was 100 degrees out. The carrot there was going to Dutch Bros and walking around the really nice neighborhood. Saw some landscaping that we want to emulate for our own house. Got breakfast after that from one of...
by Ira | Jun 9, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
Joy’s wild. We got into Madhuri and Joe’s, and she’s running around the house like a mad lady, army crawling underneath shelves, rubbing her back up against the bottom of the bed. She’s crazy. She’ll calm down for bed, though. I know it. Liz just hasn’t come back in...
by Ira | Jun 8, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
There are national guard troops all over LA. Literally saw a truck full of them driving down the freeway. And let me say as loud as I possibly can: FUCK. THAT. SHIT. Fuuuuuuuuuck that. Landing troops in my city, blackhawks and machines guns and fatigues with roaming...
by Ira | Jun 7, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
Had dinner at Uovo tonight and…legit, that place might be my favorite restaurant of them all. Good god I love that pasta. I had their artichoke heart tagliatelle tonight, plus a ragu added on (basically their bolognese). Liz had the cured pork pasta I can’t remember...
by Ira | Jun 6, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
Joe and Madhuri and Ashi and Aavi are here! It’s been a while since we hosted them. Particularly all of them. Man…it’s been a whiiile, actually, since they stayed at our house. Aavi wasn’t born yet. It was just the three of them. So, more than 18 months by that count....
