The past two weeks have been full of...

The past two weeks have been full of marching band. We’ve been following our kids attending parades for eight or nine years now, chaperoning for most of those. It’s a fast and furious summer competitive parade season, and they’ve had a blast with it. Jesse and I marched when we grew up. All of our kids have marched. We are a marching band people. The youngest even has a tuba solo! As a result of the above, our summers don’t really get started until July, and I’m getting older, so the amount of tired I am right now is pretty notable. Upcoming we have some nice time with family as well as relaxing time next to a lake on the schedule. Pika has been humming along very nicely, with our biggest update in a long time, The Pika Pulse, arriving this week. It has definitely been fun to read all kinds of different blog posts being written on Pika. There’s a fascinating diversity of writing going on there. 😻 I’m also trying my best to shift down a gear on work for the summer. I, and we, have been…