{"id":17880,"date":"2015-12-04T11:26:45","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T18:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=17880"},"modified":"2015-12-04T11:26:45","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T18:26:45","slug":"friday-bag-o-photobloggery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=17880","title":{"rendered":"Friday Bag o’ Photobloggery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Post-Thanksgiving, post-anniversary, pre-Christmas. A welcome break, and\u00a0a chance to catch one’s breath.<\/p>\n

Mostly thanks to Polly (but I hepped<\/a>!), our outdoor lights are up.<\/p>\n

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Naturally our neighborhood Griswold decided to one-up everyone by opening a Toyota dealership at his house.<\/p>\n

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Goddamn thing is visible from the highway!<\/p>\n

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About 8:30 PM on the eve of our anniversary, I got a text message from my son in Las Vegas: “Check the front door before it freezes tonight.” I checked the door, and there was a box of flowers that hadn’t been there an hour before. This connected age, I swear! You can order flowers, have them delivered almost anywhere at a specified time, check the weather at the delivery address, and track the actual delivery. And then text your dad! Thanks, Al Gore!<\/p>\n

Gregory and Beth sent orchids. I settled on roses, and had ours delivered on the day of our anniversary.<\/p>\n

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Our anniversary was a quiet one. I worked at the air museum until early afternoon.\u00a0Donna sewed. That evening we went to a fancy steakhouse. The guy behind us was half in the bag and loud, but our dinner was superb.<\/p>\n

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I wore a cardigan, as you can see. When I put it\u00a0on the shoulders were loose and flappy, stretched from hanging in a closet with my other sweaters. The next day I purged a couple of dozen T-shirts\u00a0and took them to Goodwill. Now I have room in the dresser\u00a0for all my\u00a0sweaters, nicely folded in a drawer. I’m keeping\u00a0a few favorite Ts but don’t mind losing the rest; over the past year I’ve switched to wearing regular shirts, except for the occasional motorcycle ride.<\/p>\n

I’m working on our holiday letter, the one we send every year\u00a0to friends and family. Donna just approved the draft, so I’ll polish it a bit and start sending it out. A few years back I started sending electronic copies to the people on our list who have email addresses. I felt guilty about it at first, but really it only makes sense, and the initial guilt has faded. That fact I even mention this indicates I\u00a0still feel a twinge, though.<\/p>\n

We’re going on a bicycle ride with friends tomorrow morning, and on Sunday afternoon taking our doggies to Reid Park for the monthly dachshund meetup. My Christmas shopping is done (thank you, Amazon!), and I think so is Donna’s. We can relax a bit. Pretty soon, though, we’ll start\u00a0ramping up for Christmas: we’re\u00a0hosting a Christmas Eve dinner and tree-decorating party for our friends, and\u00a0the week after Christmas Gregory, Beth, and Quentin will be here from Las Vegas. Cooking ahead, plus visits to the museum and a motorcycle ride with my son.<\/p>\n

That’s the haps around these parts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Post-Thanksgiving, post-anniversary, pre-Christmas. A welcome break, and\u00a0a chance to catch one’s breath. Mostly thanks to Polly (but I hepped!), our outdoor lights are up. Naturally our neighborhood Griswold decided to one-up everyone by opening a Toyota dealership at his house. Goddamn thing is visible from the highway! About 8:30 PM on the eve of our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[555,2,1601],"tags":[61,2009,2010],"class_list":["post-17880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-color","category-personal","category-photoblogging","tag-anniversary","tag-decorations","tag-holiday-plans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17880","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=17880"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17885,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17880\/revisions\/17885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}