{"id":50323,"date":"2019-04-27T07:26:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T13:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=50323"},"modified":"2019-04-27T07:31:14","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T13:31:14","slug":"optimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=50323","title":{"rendered":"Optimism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring\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\u00a0 Rushing Waters Moon<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_50326\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50326\" style=\"width: 178px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-50326\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20180319_053142-e1556371689325-420x591.jpg\" alt=\"Kate at 16\" width=\"178\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20180319_053142-e1556371689325-420x591.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20180319_053142-e1556371689325-744x1046.jpg 744w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20180319_053142-e1556371689325-768x1080.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20180319_053142-e1556371689325-1200x1688.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 178px) 100vw, 178px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50326\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate at 16<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Took Kate out for errands yesterday. Doesn&#8217;t sound like a big deal, but it is. She went into the goldsmiths and got a new battery for her mercury dime-faced watch. I parked, came in and found her looking at wedding rings. Well, replacement wedding rings. After 29 years she has misplaced hers. Vega ate mine with the watch band I used to hold it long ago. It&#8217;s out there somewhere in the wilds of Andover. Kate walked into the goldsmiths, walked to the car. We went to Hopsin&#8217;s Dry Cleaner, the post office, and the Village Gourmet, looking for a bread box.<\/p>\n<p>When we got back home, she was not ashen, not exhausted. Her stamina has improved. A lot. A testimony to weight gain, blood and iron infusions, and her commitment to ot\/pt. Her face is fuller at 94 pounds. We&#8217;re both cautiously optimistic. Next up is the lung diagnosis and the j-tube placement. Some day.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m off to Bailey this morning for our month&#8217;s worth of thc. The Happy Camper. I&#8217;m going to take the opportunity to go to the Rustic Station for breakfast. Their sweet cream pancakes are wonderful. Tom and Mark and Paul, I&#8217;ll eat them with mindfulness of our trip to Durango.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-50328\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20180615_101542-e1556371821889-420x283.jpg\" alt=\"20180615_101542\" width=\"250\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20180615_101542-e1556371821889-420x283.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20180615_101542-e1556371821889-744x501.jpg 744w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20180615_101542-e1556371821889-768x517.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20180615_101542-e1556371821889-1200x808.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>It&#8217;s a blue sky, sun shiny Colorado day. We get a lot of them though in recent months we&#8217;ve also had our share of dark and gloomy. I like both. The sunny days lift my spirit; the gloomy ones inspire my creativity.<\/p>\n<p>Got groceries delivered and the house cleaned yesterday. Having groceries picked and delivered relieves a major energy drainer. Well worth the extra 10-20 bucks. Sandy, our house cleaner, got energetic and washed some bedding, my electric blanket included. At first, I thought she had shorted it out like the first one that got washed, but no, it lives!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring\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\u00a0 Rushing Waters Moon Took Kate out for errands yesterday. Doesn&#8217;t sound like a big deal, but it is. She went into the goldsmiths and got a new battery for her mercury dime-faced watch. I parked, came in and found her looking at wedding rings. Well, replacement wedding rings. After 29 years she has misplaced &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=50323\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Optimism<\/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":[65,127,13,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-health","category-our-land","category-weather-climate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50323","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=50323"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50329,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50323\/revisions\/50329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}