Glad to see I still have some readers after falling off my blog posting schedule. I had a work training all of last week, followed by some much-needed disconnecting, so my daily routine has gone out the window for the past week or two. I’m back, though! Look for a new pencil review in the next day or so.

In the meantime, here’s some Alaska porn. The Polar Pencil Partner and I hiked in to the Manitoba cabins (not really much of a hike — just enough to feel like you’re “off the grid” but definitely not hard to access either) to celebrate our anniversary. I was pleased to find a pencil cup (although the pickin’s were slim), a Boston rotary sharpener, and the old-school leather-bound log book.

Next time I hike into a cabin, I’m going to take a few good pencils with me to stock it up. They’ll call me Jesse Pencil Seed.