February was a wild month. Within the first week we had our water heater fail–rather catastrophically–and flooded the downstairs (which includes ou r bedroom). That’s ongoing, Also had a bit of a vehicular hiccup with the SOTA rig, a 20-year-old Honda Element, that cost a pretty penny. But thankfully it’s running great with 230k miles.
The true highlight of the month was our welcoming of Monte to the household.
We adopted this sweet guy from a rescue over in Edmonds, WA. He’s about 2 years and fully of energy! The guy has is pretty reactive when he sees wildlife, so it’s going to take some time and work to bring that down but he’s super smart, and food motivated, so I have no doubt he’ll figure things out and be a great hiking buddy.