{"id":49659,"date":"2019-01-17T08:30:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T14:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=49659"},"modified":"2019-01-17T08:36:37","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T14:36:37","slug":"stocking-stuffers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=49659","title":{"rendered":"Stocking Stuffers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winter\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\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 Waxing Moon<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_49661\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49661\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-49661\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/arrowhead-420x281.jpg\" alt=\"Arrowhead Manor\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/arrowhead-420x281.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/arrowhead-744x498.jpg 744w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/arrowhead-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/arrowhead-1200x803.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/arrowhead.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49661\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arrowhead Manor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Today and tomorrow. Friendship in the Rockies. Tom and Mark flew in yesterday, spent the night at Arrowhead Manor, a B&amp;B off 285 near Meyer&#8217;s Ranch. Between 8:30 and 9:00 they&#8217;ll be here. I need this time with them. I&#8217;ve had my head down, pushing, pushing, pushing for quite a while now. SeoAh&#8217;s been so helpful, CBE folks, too, and Kate. Well, Kate&#8217;s had the hard time. Is having the hard time. Yes. All that. Even so, there&#8217;s been my side of it, too. Uncertainty. Stress. Caregiving. All ok, but a break from them for a couple of days? Needed, too.<\/p>\n<p>The Happy Camper, our dispensary in Bailey, will be among our first stops. When I went in there a couple of weeks ago to pick up our monthly supply of THC, I asked for my usual edibles from Love&#8217;s Oven. &#8220;Don&#8217;t have any,&#8221; the budtender replied. &#8220;Oh?&#8221; &#8220;Yeah, some guy came in just before Christmas and bought all of them for stocking stuffers.&#8221; Oh. The times are not changing. They&#8217;ve changed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_49663\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49663\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-49663\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20180615_101624-e1547735666451-420x747.jpg\" alt=\"20180615_101624\" width=\"225\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20180615_101624-e1547735666451-420x747.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20180615_101624-e1547735666451-744x1323.jpg 744w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20180615_101624-e1547735666451-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20180615_101624-e1547735666451-1200x2133.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49663\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rustic&#8217;s Door<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After that we&#8217;ll visit the Rustic Bar a couple of miles from the Happy Camper, down a 7% grade called Crow Hill. This is where Paul, Mark, Tom, and I had our first breakfast on our Durango trip last year. Beyond the Rustic? TBD.<\/p>\n<p>The Rav4 has new oil. It continues to function well. I sorta wish it didn&#8217;t because I don&#8217;t like it much, even though I picked it out in 2011 when our Tundra had STDS, sudden truck death syndrome. It has two main virtues. It&#8217;s paid for. And it&#8217;s sturdy. Will probably drive it another 125,000 miles.<\/p>\n<p>Class on yirah for religious school. Note to self. Always have a craft-like activity in addition to talk. I&#8217;ve figured out a way to get the kids quiet. They&#8217;re attentive and responsive. But, I aimed the class a mile or so over their heads. They&#8217;re concrete thinkers, as Alan reminds me, and I went into full adult, let us reason together mode. Not a flop, but not a success either. Teaching is hard to do well. Not hard to do poorly. I was in the middle yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-49664\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20180828_185716-420x307.jpg\" alt=\"20180828_185716\" width=\"250\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20180828_185716-420x307.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20180828_185716-744x544.jpg 744w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20180828_185716-768x562.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20180828_185716-1200x878.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Kate came to our MVP group after the religious school class. Marilyn Saltzman picked her up. She lasted a bit over an hour before she began to fade. She&#8217;s decided to challenge herself, get out more, see people, build her stamina. I&#8217;m so proud of her. It&#8217;s tough and in these early days it&#8217;s impossible to calibrate well, so she shows up and stays as long as she&#8217;s able. When people see her, they smile, come over, give her hugs. Important for healing. Slowly.<\/p>\n<p>SeoAh will leave on Monday, taking her smile, her upbeat presence, and Murdoch back to Georgia. She&#8217;s been here since Christmas Eve, teaching us about family and about Korean cooking. Sorry to see her go, but she needs to get back to her Warner Robbins life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter\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\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 Waxing Moon Today and tomorrow. Friendship in the Rockies. Tom and Mark flew in yesterday, spent the night at Arrowhead Manor, a B&amp;B off 285 near Meyer&#8217;s Ranch. Between 8:30 and 9:00 they&#8217;ll be here. I need this time with them. I&#8217;ve had my head down, pushing, pushing, pushing for quite a while now. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=49659\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stocking Stuffers<\/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":[65,11,23,4381,4382],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-friends","category-geekworld","category-judaism","category-mussarkabbalahhebrewtorahtalmud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49659","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=49659"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49665,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49659\/revisions\/49665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}