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Rachael Taylor

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NorCal born and raised
🌾 Oklahoma 🌺 Hawaii

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Happy 9th birthday to this little love. Big love. Sometimes mean love. But mostly she’s a sweet love. She is never far from me, all night and all day, my little fuzzy shadow. by @rachaelreally

Just making sure everyone on the planet sees Marni with a fresh haircut. by @rachaelreally

Happy 15th Birthday to Miss Marni — I arbitrarily chose the Summer Solstice as her birthday many years ago because I couldn’t remember what day in June is really was and I’m not entirely sure anyone actually knew for sure.

Last night she came with us to the Kernside Midsummer Street Fair, then this morning we took her for coffee and then she got a bath. Two of these adventures she loved. I’ll let you guess which she did not. 🫧

She’s slowed down quite a bit these past few months, bursts of puppy energy are still happening but they’re further and fewer between. She’s content to snooze next to my desk for 8+ hours, taking a midday break for a pee and I’m finding her stopping to recharge in the sunshine more than she used to. Getting her to eat food is a daily battle, and more often than not we’re cleaning up some form of incotinence that we can never predict or explain.

But she’s still adored and loved and here for now, so we cherish the time we have been given. by @rachaelreally

Excuse me, but this spot is perfect. @palswithus by @rachaelreally

Marni turns 👏 FIFTEEN 👏 in June.

We just did her yearly checkup and senior blood panel and, against all logic … she’s perfect.

Which feels a little unbelievable, considering this dog has been hauled from California to Oklahoma to California to Hawaii to Oregon (and everywhere in between), while her mother spent most of those years trying to make two pennies stretch.

And yet. She persists.

Yes, she’s got the back leg shakes now. About half her teeth. She’s mostly deaf, a little blind, and her feelings get hurt faster than they used to.

But none of that seems to matter. She still spins in circles at your feet for love and attention, then flops into the softest bed she can find and sleeps like it’s her full-time job.

She’s an enigma. A goddess. A smelly bucket full of minnows.

My sweet baby. My old lady. And somehow, still not slowing down. by @rachaelreally

We managed to catch the tulips in full bloom this weekend at @woodenshoefarm — despite the dreary weather it was still amazing. I couldn’t stop taking pictures of all the varieties. Green, black, fluffy, twisty … next year maybe we’ll be lucky enough to see the hot air balloons at sunrise. 🌷 by @rachaelreally

Birthday weekend in the hood. by @rachaelreally

🌸🌸🌸 by @rachaelreally

As I've been largely off social media (see previous post) I figured a dump of February photos was in order.

We went to Canard (thank you Erin and Tim for the gift) as an early Valentine's Day dinner. These duck foie gras dumplings with a tom kha broth were amazing. We finally tried the soft serve at Cheese & Crack (with teeny chocolate cowboy hats) and then on Friday this week we got to try Javelina, this is my blue corn tostada with braised maple duck leg.

Plus the many photos of the kiddos. by @rachaelreally

After returning from Japan 3 weeks ago, I've been struggling to feel myself. First it was a head cold, no big deal, a dime a dozen in a long life of planes and trains. But shortly after, I started experiencing dizziness, vertigo, and nausea so intense that I was having trouble keeping meals down. My doctor believes it's BPPV, essentially an inner-ear imbalance. We've done the maneuver to stabilize my ear crystals (yes, that's an actual thing.) but I still have some residual motion sickness.

I deleted Instagram, Tiktok, Facebook, Threads ... off my phone about a week ago. The motion from videos on my phone seems to bring out the worst of it, so temptation removed, deleted.

Anyway, if I missed something, sorry - please send a messenger (a crow maybe?) with any important updates.
Meanwhile, I'll just be over here surviving on prescription ear patches and zofran. by @rachaelreally

Surprise birthday present from Rachael. #iykyk #japan by @rachaelreally

Three days ago, we marked 6 years married while in Tokyo. 6 years that stacked up a pandemic, living in Hawaii and moving to the PNW. So grateful for this life we’ve been given and path we get to walk together.

We’re now in Kyoto and it’s @nuttlenews birthday — a big one, too. He wanted to do something big for turning 40, so here we are, eating so much ramen and walking 20,000 steps a day and getting turned around in train stations and waking up at the crack of dawn every day.

Happy Birthday to my other half, whose entire goal each day is to make me genuinely laugh so hard I can’t breathe. by @rachaelreally