Bear-ly Keeping Up #2
Greetings from your LoCo Roaster! Here’s our latest Bear-ly Keeping Up update.
What we’re working on: We are still working on finding the right time and working out the details on possibly hosting some sort of coffee tasting event…maybe. Not sure how much interest there’d be, but we’ll never know till we try it. We are also looking into finding ways of reducing the cost of our coffee. We try to keep our costs reasonable, but one of the biggest costs with acquiring our coffee is shipping. So, we are looking at eliminating that cost entirely by simply physically picking up the coffee directly from the farm or our exporters. When you see a sudden drop in cost on our coffee, you’ll know why.
Brit continues to homeschool our kids while working towards becoming the fittest woman on Earth in her division (40+ age group, brown, curly hair, married to a hispanic man named Alfred, residing within a 1 mile radius of our home, and driving a red SUV group) while I continue to chip away at marathon training. My run lengths are getting into the crazy lengths making me second guess my life decisions and Brit’s working on getting her first muscle up, one of the most complex and challenging moves in the functional fitness realm.
What we’re watching: Besides Bluey and Jacob Collier YouTube videos, we just watched a movie on Netflix called The Miracle Club about a group of Irish women who want to visit Lourdes, France to see where the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared to a woman in 1858 in hopes of seeing or experiencing a miracle. It’s a movie that tugs on the heart strings. I do like an action film every now and then, but I really enjoy an inspirational movie or one that helps you appreciate life like The Miracle Club. We also recently went and saw Arthur The King in theaters, which is also a great movie about a dog and a group of adventure seekers. That’s another movie that made us appreciate our furry friends in our house.
What we’re reading: I am on a reading roll considering I can Bear-ly 😉keep up with many of life’s projects. I am currently reading The Heart is the Strongest Muscle by Tia Toomey, a well-known name amongst the CrossFit community. She’s a 6x CrossFit Games champion. She’s a beast and an excellent role model for aspiring athletes. But, her experiences and lessons she shares apply to life in general as well. There are a few YouTube videos highlighting her success if you are interested in learning about her.
Brit is reading Watership Down by Richard Adams - a book about a group of rabbits with their own culture, language, mythology, poetry, conflict, and governmental rule. Sounds like it’s a book about reality, but with rabbits instead of people. It is an interesting-sounding book using a different means to tell a story much like how I try to educate our kids about life, but with animals instead of humans just to keep their interest. Perhaps there will one day be a book about the heart being the biggest muscle, but from the view of dogs. Maybe Brit will write it after becoming the fittest woman on Earth within our household 💪!
And Ari just finished The Last Kids On Earth - book 1 by Max Brallier. He says it is about 4 kids who live through a zombie apocalypse. They are the last 4 kids to survive. They find friendly monsters who help them fight bad monsters. I will spare you the incredibly lengthy and detailed description of this book and just let you google it if interested.
Where we’re going: This one should be titled more like “Where we went.” We just returned from a trip to North Carolina. We stayed in the Pisgah National Forest, which we’d never visited. Last year we visited Nantahala National Forest and Great Smoky Mountain National Park and fell in love with the area. Pisgah did not disappoint. We loved the nature walks, fishing, plentiful streams, and seeing friends we hadn’t seen since they moved there. We dream of one day having a cabin in Western NC. You can see some pictures and videos on Brit’s instagram @brittanyv1008 or my super-secret, stealthy one that I am still learning how to use @rumble5824. Prepare to be impressed by my huge following (I think I am up to 3 or 4 followers 😎).
