{"id":4080,"date":"2009-10-11T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T14:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=4080"},"modified":"2009-10-11T17:39:29","modified_gmt":"2009-10-11T23:39:29","slug":"the-day-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=4080","title":{"rendered":"The Day So Far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fall\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 Waning Blood Moon<\/p>\n<p>Over to Joann Fabrics this morning to pick up some butterfly brocade for a dress Kate will make for Ruth.\u00a0 As the only guy in line to have fabric cut, I had a chance to observe the female of the species in one of her traditional habitats.\u00a0 The woman in front of me had on a pink fleece and nice pink bow in her hair.\u00a0 She also stood about thirty feet behind the cutting counter, making those of us behind her stand right smack in the aisle where people pushed their carts.\u00a0 I see this same behavior sometimes at traffic lights where someone (gender not at issue) chooses to wait three car lengths behind the next car.\u00a0 What&#8217;s up with that?<\/p>\n<p>When I got home, I plucked the decorative squash from the vine, then went over to the black beans still on the vine and gathered them into one of our large woven harvest baskets.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the end of the harvest.\u00a0 As the WCCO weather guy put it in the\u00a0 paper this morning, the growing season is over.<\/p>\n<p>After this I made a sugar cream pie, a Hoosier recipe I learned.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a childhood favorite and it pops up in my need to have box once in a while. It has four ingredients:\u00a0 flour, sugar, butter and cream.\u00a0 Easy to make and no nutritional value at all.\u00a0 But boy is it tasty.<\/p>\n<p>Spent a couple of hours watching the Vikes beat the Rams.\u00a0 They looked pretty good.\u00a0 Won 38-10.\u00a0 Tavaris Jackson passed for a touchdown late in the 4th quarter.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a hopeful sign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall\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 Waning Blood Moon Over to Joann Fabrics this morning to pick up some butterfly brocade for a dress Kate will make for Ruth.\u00a0 As the only guy in line to have fabric cut, I had a chance to observe the female of the species in one of her traditional habitats.\u00a0 The woman in front &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=4080\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Day So Far<\/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":[65,87,243,754],"tags":[1909,111,223,1908,96],"class_list":["post-4080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-garden","category-memories","category-sport","tag-hoosier","tag-kate","tag-ruth","tag-sugar-cream-pie","tag-vikings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080","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=4080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4082,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080\/revisions\/4082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}