Weeknotes: Aug. 1-7, 2026

look at mom reaching for that fig! (right side) she decided it wasn’t ripe enough Highlight of the week: we were eating lunch when this family of raccoons — one adult and two little kits — came to look for figs (none looked ripe to me but they found a few they deemed edible) Looking forward to: the wildfire smoke is supposed to clear out this weekend after a long smoky week, will be happy to have clean air again! Stuff I did: 0.75 hours consulting admin — project officially on hold 4.25 hours business development — updating my SOQ for the state roster woke up with a craving for chickpeas so I made breakfast chickpeas for Saturday brunch — made wells and threw in some eggs which worked, though the sauce was missing a little something — I never ate chickpeas growing up but I could eat them every day nowadays our power went out unexpectedly on Saturday so we boogied downtown, grabbed a gelato ($7 for one scoop 😳), and wandered along the waterfront up to my favorite little flower garden 🌼…