{"id":16476,"date":"2015-04-18T08:50:38","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T15:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=16476"},"modified":"2015-04-18T10:26:16","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T17:26:16","slug":"saturday-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=16476","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

I feel bad about not blogging. With the\u00a0house full of company the past week and a half, my only internet access has been via iPhone or iPad.\u00a0Sure, lots of folks\u00a0are perfectly happy typing with one or two fingers, but I’m not one of them.\u00a0I took a typing class\u00a0in 9th grade for an easy grade. To my surprise, I not only learned to type but discovered I liked it. Now, it’s two hands or none.<\/p>\n

Our daughter Polly was here for several days, the first few of which were anxious ones. She’d found a lump in her breast and had\u00a0a referral from a clinic in Ajo for a mammogram in Tucson. She doesn’t have a car and could only come on the one day her boyfriend could drive her here, which was three days ahead of her appointment. It turned out the lump was just\u00a0fibrous tissue, so the rest of her visit was a happy one, thank goodness. She drove back to Ajo with her boyfriend last night.<\/p>\n

Polly’s visit overlapped with our friend Angie’s, here from Tampa until\u00a0Monday.\u00a0The dogs have been loving it.\u00a0Different laps to curl up on by day,\u00a0a wider selection of warm bodies to crawl into bed with at night!<\/p>\n

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Schatzi & Maxie curling up with Angie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I put\u00a0our old hybrid bikes back into riding condition so that Polly and Angie could ride together, and they did. Angie and I rode too\u00a0and will ride\u00a0again tomorrow: earlier in the week\u00a0we scouted a bicycle hare & hounds trail through downtown Tucson, tomorrow we’ll hare ahead of a\u00a0pursuing pack. Angie talked me into putting metal baskets on the handlebars of the hybrids. We had to buy them at Wal-Mart, which made my skin crawl, but the\u00a0price was right and Angie was buying. The baskets will hold our trail-marking flour bags.<\/p>\n

Thursday was a motorcycle day. With our friends Jim and Mark, we rode to\u00a0the old mining town of Bisbee and dropped in on hashing friends who live in one of the historic homes there.<\/p>\n

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Jim, me, Angie, and Mark with our Bisbee friends Benjamin and Candace.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s been a lively week. There’ll be a couple of quiet days after Angie flies home, but\u00a0then\u00a0I’m off on a five-day, three-state motorcycle run\u00a0with my friend & maintenance guru Ed. Gotta ride\u00a0now while it’s still cool enough, am I right?<\/p>\n

Our mama hummingbird is back on her nest under the patio roof. I observed what I thought was her\u00a0turning the eggs last night, but Donna thinks she was actually feeding chicks.\u00a0We’ll know soon enough; I’m not going to pester the\u00a0little family\u00a0with my camera this year.<\/p>\n

It occurs to me that I haven’t ridden the hybrid with two five-pound flour bags in a handlebar-mounted basket, and that I’d better go practice lest I trip myself\u00a0up tomorrow. Wish me luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I feel bad about not blogging. With the\u00a0house full of company the past week and a half, my only internet access has been via iPhone or iPad.\u00a0Sure, lots of folks\u00a0are perfectly happy typing with one or two fingers, but I’m not one of them.\u00a0I took a typing class\u00a0in 9th grade for an easy grade. To […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,18,40,555,5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling","category-consumerism","category-critters","category-local-color","category-motorcycling","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16476"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16486,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16476\/revisions\/16486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}