{"id":6523,"date":"2011-06-24T09:32:07","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T16:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=6523"},"modified":"2011-06-26T07:54:05","modified_gmt":"2011-06-26T14:54:05","slug":"friday-grandson-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=6523","title":{"rendered":"Friday Grandson Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our grandson is here.\u00a0 We’ll have him to ourselves for a few days.\u00a0 His father will be here later next week and both of them will stay with us through the 4th of July.\u00a0 No daughter-in-law or granddaughter, though — Beth and Taylor are on the softball circuit in California<\/span> Colorado, and when Greg and Quentin leave here on the 5th of July they’ll drive there to meet them<\/span> they’re all going to meet up in California for the rest of their summer vacation.<\/p>\n

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Number one grandson Quentin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Number one grandson’s Tucson bicycle is down from the garage rafters, ready to decorate for the 4th of July neighborhood parade.\u00a0 We’ll swing by the dollar store later today to stock up on red, white, and blue crepe.<\/p>\n

What else is on?\u00a0 We’re riding bicycles Saturday morning with our friend Mary Anne, a fellow grandparent who’ll be riding with her granddaughter Jade, a bud of Quentin’s.\u00a0 Saturday night there’s a kids’ thing at the air museum — Jade will be there too.\u00a0 Hmm, it almost sounds like we’re trying to set the two of them up, doesn’t it?\u00a0 Starting Monday, we drop Quentin off at one of the local resort hotels for a three-day Lego camp, and there’s at least one play date at the local water park on the schedule.\u00a0 Then the dad comes and we can turn the entertainment duties back over to him.\u00a0 It’s definitely more fun being a grandparent than it was being a parent … but still a certain amount of work!<\/p>\n

The fuel gauge in my car quit working.\u00a0\u00a0 The oddest thing, as if that’s not odd enough on its own, is that it failed gradually.\u00a0 At first the gauge would read accurately on startup, then slowly settle toward E as I drove.\u00a0 If I turned the ignition off at a stoplight and started the car again the gauge would return to normal, but after a few minutes it’d be indicating empty again.\u00a0 Eventually the gauge failed completely and now always reads empty, accompanied by a bright yellow light.\u00a0 Early on, when the gauge was still sort of functioning, a warning bell would actuate.\u00a0 Apparently the bell was triggered by the needle dropping below a certain level.\u00a0 Now that the needle’s permanently resting on the little peg below the E the bell no longer goes off, thank goodness. Because of the way the gauge failed, I suspect a problem with the ignition switch.\u00a0 If that’s the case, something more important will fail soon, and then I’ll have to get it fixed.<\/p>\n

I’m keeping track of the fuel level with my trip odometer, which I reset to zero every time I fill up — at about 250 miles I start looking for a cheap gas station.\u00a0 That’s how we hippies used to keep track of fuel in our Volkswagens, which didn’t need no stinkin’ fuel gauges!<\/p>\n

Donna’s at work and I’m home alone with Quentin.\u00a0 No, that’s not quite right … Polly’s here too, but she’s still in bed and likely to remain there until noon, so I’m temporarily in charge of entertaining the lad.\u00a0 How about a trip to the library?\u00a0 And, depending on the odometer reading, the gas station?\u00a0 Sounds like a plan to me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our grandson is here.\u00a0 We’ll have him to ourselves for a few days.\u00a0 His father will be here later next week and both of them will stay with us through the 4th of July.\u00a0 No daughter-in-law or granddaughter, though — Beth and Taylor are on the softball circuit in California Colorado, and when Greg and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6523","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=6523"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6538,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6523\/revisions\/6538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}