{"id":32,"date":"2017-04-25T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5265.temp.domains\/~brucewi2\/photos\/2017\/04\/25\/burning-down-the-house\/"},"modified":"2019-09-03T01:12:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T01:12:08","slug":"burning-down-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/burning-down-the-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Burning down the house"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We had a great visit from Mom and friend Sue:<\/div>\n
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We hiked our backyard trails:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It rain when they were here, so they got to see the creek in peak glory:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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We played with our tiny flare gun:<\/div>\n
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Sue tried burning down our house with it:<\/div>\n
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We also did some lounging:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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And visited Irina:<\/div>\n
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Mom, remember this fledgling Green-brier vine?<\/div>\n
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In just 3 weeks it has grown into a 20′ monster, about 8″ a day!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Irina also had a visitor this month, Vera, her childhood friend from Moscow:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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We took Vera and Irina for a weekend on the gulf, Pensacola this time:<\/div>\n
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I made sure I would go \u2018off line\u2019 and enjoy the beach by smashing my phone in our car door:<\/div>\n
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We rented a fancy condo with a view of the world. If you look just above the railing in this picture, you can see the curvature of the earth:<\/div>\n
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Pelicans kept an eye on us, regularly policing the beach with fly overs:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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And various creatures came out of the sea in mostly unsuccessful attempts to scare us:<\/div>\n
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Back home, I internet-ed a 400 lb marble table into our kitchen. The delivery guy and I had a fun time carting it up our steep driveway:<\/div>\n
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This is my first step in transforming our kitchen from black to white:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Another project this month was to negotiate a deal with a tree that was in the middle of my trail. I asked him politely (using my winch) to move to one side:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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This wizard watched in amusement:<\/div>\n
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I have visions of him playing a Roadrunner -vs- Coyote trick, gnawing at the rope so it breaks and the tree flips back and whack me down as I go for a daily run. So far the rope has held \u2026<\/div>\n
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We had a great visit from Mom and friend Sue: We hiked our backyard trails: It rain when they were here, so they got to see the creek in peak glory: We played with our tiny flare gun: Sue tried burning down our house with it: We also did some lounging: And visited Irina: Mom,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1bWAcNneoM6XpQPbg6LgNzg.jpg?fit=800%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3685,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/3685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}