{"id":28864,"date":"2014-11-17T15:17:29","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T21:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=28864"},"modified":"2014-11-17T15:17:29","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T21:17:29","slug":"pickles-on-a-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=28864","title":{"rendered":"Pickles on a Stick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samain \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Closing Moon<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Allison, Morrie, Sally, Mary, Joan, Wendy, Vicki, Bill, Carol, Antra, Joy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0-4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-28865\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0-4-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"0 (4)\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0-4-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0-4-1024x765.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0-4.jpg 1044w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Kathleen, Merritt, Tom, Marcia, Sharon, Cheryl, Ginny, Florence, Carreen, Jane, Lisa for a wonderful, sweet, sad afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The hot dish, the pickles on a stick, the bundt form jello, the wild rice soup, the selection of desserts and the lefse with butter and sugar, all culinary masterpieces of Minnesota home cooking. There will be nothing like any of this in Colorado, I&#8217;m sure.<\/p>\n<p>Friends for life, you all. My time at the museum became a place to see you, catch up on interesting lives and have conversations about art. A good life.<\/p>\n<p>As I said this afternoon, this event was sweet and sad and those two in direct proportion to each other. Very sad, very sweet. Here are a few more pictures taken by Ginny:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-28866\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0-1-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"0 (1)\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0-1-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0-1.jpg 583w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>a Minnesota memories dish towel<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-28867\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0-3-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"0 (3)\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0-3-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0-3-1024x765.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0-3.jpg 1044w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mary and Tom and the pickle tray<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-28868\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"0\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0-1024x764.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0.jpg 1130w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wendy and Joy<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-28869\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0-2-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"0 (2)\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0-2-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0-2-1024x765.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0-2.jpg 1044w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>notes from everyone written on the back of these Pre-Raphaelite cards. Antra (on the left) also did the calligraphy for a beautiful card.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samain \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Closing Moon Thanks to Allison, Morrie, Sally, Mary, Joan, Wendy, Vicki, Bill, Carol, Antra, Joy, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=28864\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pickles on a Stick<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1113,11,4309],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-colorado","category-friends","category-the-move"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28870,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28864\/revisions\/28870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}