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Yes, it's 6:30am. I slept in! Just like B needs to sometimes go to bed early to reset her clock, I need the opposite. I need to go to bed late. I went to bed around midnight which helped me. I woke up once at 4:15 and said screw it. I got me some good sleeping!

Did wake up to some good news. Got my tax info for the year - Fed owe $333, State refund of $1300. Net of $1000 to the good for us. Game played well once more. I am going to use part of that money to buy my birthday present - a new camera. I have been wanting one for a while and this is a big birthday for me so that's what I want.

We had a really fun day yesterday.

I got up and went to the grocery store to make sure B had food while I am gone this week. I leave Tuesday and am back Saturday so a full week of food is needed. Plus her avocado tree has picked up some fruit flies and needed something to kill those off. Took care of that and was back by 7:30.

Once B was up at 8:30, we took a drive over to the coast. It was okay going over weather wise. There was about six inches of snow on the side of the road and some flurries at the higher elevations. But nothing that slowed us down too much. We got over the hill around 10am.

Our goal going over was to go some place new, specifically Jacobsen Salt Company. We have been watching these Bon Appetit videos and they went there in one. It's a really tiny place when you get there but they have a great tasting room with 20 different salts and 10 different honeys you can try. Because of the weather we were the only ones there which was kind of cool. It's a small building and if there had been more people it would have been overwhelming.

Once we finished with the salt we found a 2nd hand store nearby and browsed around that for a while. B found some salt and pepper shakers for her friend. Every birthday she sends her random salt and pepper shakers. She found some imprinted with NEBRASKA to celebrate their trip across country 5 years ago and their hatred for the state of NE.

After that we went to the Blue Heron Cheese Company for some lunch, cheese, mustard, and jam tasting. We ended up getting multiple jars of mustard, salad dressing, and jam to bring home.

Got home around 1:45, took a nap, and then had good Mexican for dinner. Came back, played some games together, went off to bed.

A nice day.