Oh??? #fireseason

Back home (to monsoons!) after two weeks on the Willow Fire in Colorado with Southwest Team 4! Thank you to the communities of both Buena Vista and Leadville for the hospitality during our assignment.

Day 11 Randi was REAL fast to say “sure, I’ll take a reassignment and an extension to 21 days!” and Day 14 Randi honestly just wants to know why the fuck Day 11 Randi did that. 🫠😪😩

Finally made it up to Leadville yesterday and am now the proud owner of two (2) Mellies.

When life (the fire camp caterer) gives you lemons (a maple bacon doughnut), you make a maple bacon doughnut maple bacon sandwich because why not.

Happy Independence Day from our fire camp in the Rockies!

One of the therapy dogs they brought to fire camp on the Pocket Fire is this corgi and I'm obsessed.

The Pocket Fire’s Incident Command Post is sharing Fort Tuthill with an EDM festival all weekend. Hard to tell who’s here for what when half the crowd is wearing cargo pants and fire boots, and the other half is wearing furry boots, holographic pasties and assless chaps.

Power is out at Pocket Fire ICP, so now we have string lights. Between that and the ash snowing on us all, it feels like Christmas around here at fire camp today.

WE HEARD FROM OUR EXCHANGE GIRL!!!! 🤩🤩🤩

Should I buy stock in hydrogen peroxide

Borrowing Ryan's truck while my Jeep is in the collision repair shop. Don't know a lot about driving trucks, but I believe I'm supposed to put a hat on, roll down the window, put my arm on the sill and say "hell yeah brother" whenever anyone says anything to me. Sounds correct?

Poor Liz!!!!! ☹️

God I miss MySpace.

100 spin classes at my local CycleBar, woo! I’ve been spinning for a few years, but I’ve really prioritized consistency lately. One hundred feels a lot like 99, a lot like 98… but a lot different than 1! Small steps add up to big changes. Excited for the next 100, and 100 more after that!

The transition from spending Sunday mornings hungover and smashing leftover 3 a.m. Menna's to spending Sunday mornings with a doubleheader 8 a.m. Pilates and 3-mile trail run comes at you FAST.

My least favorite part of home ownership is the weeds. They’re relentless.

Not who we wanted in the Larkin trade 😭😭😭

No clue what I’m gonna do with this giant YogaSix logo but it’s mine now lol

Oh wow. Lemieux made me hate a hockey team in a way I never had before and likely never will again. Phenomenal at his job, responsible for so many of my key childhood memories and huge factor in my undying love of Detroit hockey. What a loss for the hockey world.

Happy National Rescue Dog Day from Ochi (left) and the late Yukon (right). We snatched Ochi up from the Maricopa shelter, and Yukon was surrendered to us by his previous owner. Adopt don’t shop!

I bought myself this fun, colorful, new-to-me linen blazer thinking it was a perfect fit for spring. Thennn I wore it to work and started getting some weird looks and double-takes from my coworkers. Realized it’s just a liiiittle too close to Nomex yellow. 🙈

Probably the only man in the world to get ME a card and flowers for HIS birthday. 😍 And I get to marry him. 🥰😭

I wrote a fun lil feature story about our wildfire crews getting ready for the season and about prescribed fire and about how both of those things came together for a very fun field day I had at work a few weeks ago. www.fs.usda.gov/r03/coconino...

Closing in on the end of an era. 🥺 Wild to think I’ve spent every Wednesday night teaching yoga in this space for the past four-plus years. Hard to believe I’ll have my Wednesday nights back once my YogaSix studio shuts in less than two weeks. Gonna miss this place and this community so much! 💙💚

My little emo screamo heart is emo screamo-ing. 🖤

#books #read #write #authorlife #blueskywriters #booksky

HOCKEYTOWNNNNNN

GIVE ME A PWHL TEAM OR ELSEEEEEEE

Me waiting impatiently for the PWHL to confirm a Detroit expansion #pwhl #hockey

Doing some online shopping to try to find cute pajamas for my wedding, and it's just garbage filters and fillers on every retailer's website. When did online models stop looking like people and start looking like horrifying uncanny valley caricatures? 😬😬😬

I, the only Spirit Airlines fan in the whole world, am genuinely devastated.

What a terrible fucking year for my passport to expire

Detroiters is so good but it makes me so damn homesick. 😩

Wildfires are often thought to be a problem for Western North America, but climate change and other factors are making fires nastier in the East, especially this year.

Juusttt a few dumb lil photos I took during Tuesday’s Upper Beaver Creek prescribed fire/ readiness review. 🤗 Field days > office days!!!!!!

The Bear Jaw Wildland Crew that served communities around Flagstaff for years has been disbanded. The change raises questions about wildfire readiness as fire season approaches.

I found a career where I get to play with a camera AND play with fire (literally) and I think that’s pretty damn cool.

Happy National Library Week! 💙📚

Grateful to our HOA for the entertainment and ✨drama✨ I way to be as passionate about anything as these people are about their junipers and parking easements.

Our office vending machine sells Nerds Gummy Clusters now. 🤩

Up and down Wilson Mountain for a lil overnight adventure in the Red Rock-Secret Mountain Wilderness Area!

Today’s mood. (I stole this from Reddit, I’m not that funny.)

The last few days have given me a lot of insight as to where I will spend (or, rather, not spend) my hard-earned Forest Service salary. For the rest of my entire fucking life.

I am one year into my engagement which means I am one year into wedding planning and HONESTLY it baffles me that people choose this as a full-time career.

This is Sadie. She was finally reunited with her human, astronaut Christina Koch, after her mom’s voyage around the moon took her the furthest any human has ever been from their dog. She can't wait to hear all about the universe. 14/10 (IG: astro_christina)

We may have pivoted a bit too far after renting sad gray apartments for so long because our ceiling is now black.

Just sent Ryan upstairs with roughly 30 IKEA boxes weighing about 500 pounds, someone say a prayer for him.

At least it’s finally over. 🥴

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