{"id":6657,"date":"2024-01-30T14:03:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T20:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/?p=6657"},"modified":"2024-01-30T14:49:45","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T20:49:45","slug":"tchotchkes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/tchotchkes\/","title":{"rendered":"Tchotchkes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s been 2 years since Helen left us. I get an unexpected amount of joy from many of her Tchotchkes<\/a> (trinkets, knickknacks, baubles). I have them scattered all over, inside and out: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New year, new tree carving, this time on the only beech tree in my yard:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This tree was off the beaten path, so I had an excuse to create a new path \ud83d\ude42 Before and afters:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Roots quiver at the sight of my mighty shovels:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The deck had some rotted spots. Eventually will need replacement, but for now I strategically plasticized it: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I unstuck some stuck keys on Mr Piano:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of the tricks I use to get down to eating only one meal a day is drinking. The good kind \ud83d\ude42 Water is good, but there are plenty of healthy low-calorie drinks. My current go-tos: golden milk (turmeric), cocoa, frothed coffee (mostly decaf), matcha green tea, Earl Grey tea:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Closing custom, artsy stuff:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bruce<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Helen’s Tchotchkes, trail and tree carvings, and lots of drinking \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6649,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6657","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\/2024\/01\/PXL_20240114_141527420-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1928&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6657","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=6657"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6674,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6657\/revisions\/6674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}