{"id":51344,"date":"2019-08-24T07:11:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T13:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=51344"},"modified":"2019-08-25T06:12:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T12:12:21","slug":"sunny-saturday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=51344","title":{"rendered":"Sunny Saturday Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lughnasa and the Moon of the First Harvest<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/20190818_065126-1200x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51345\" width=\"284\" height=\"213\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Kate&#8217;s second birthday. Yesterday Jon, Ruth, and Gabe came up after school. Ruth brought a special piece of lemon cake for Kate. Ruth  made a birthday card at school with 75 in raised numbers and a sweet note on the back. Gabe sent photographs of minions wishing Grandma a happy birthday. Jon made her a card, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I drove over to Golden, to Ali Babba&#8217;s, and picked up a gyros meal for 5. We dined like sheiks in a tent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/exercise.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51346\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier in the day I worked out. Something odd in the workouts. I&#8217;ve been able to advance weight on most of the exercises: inclined bench press, lawnmowers, triceps. I&#8217;m holding my plank a bit longer, doing more crunches, increased my goblin squat. But bicep curls. I&#8217;m still at 12 pounds and can&#8217;t seem to get past it. Unusual. My cardio is harder right now, too. Might be the Lupron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rigel has developed a rabbit habit. She goes out, goes straight to the shed and starts digging under it. And barking under it, too. Come on out, rabbits! Come on out. I&#8217;m hungry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/20190707_054602-e1566652170169-1200x832.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51351\" width=\"180\" height=\"124\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve never believed in this tactic, but she&#8217;s used it for years. She&#8217;s also chewed up boards on our back deck, dug under it, plucked a board off one of the pallets. A board nailed to the pallet&#8217;s supports. The definition of dogged. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All this began again after she dug up a vole a couple of years ago. It reignited her inner predator and she&#8217;s been trying for critters ever since. She&#8217;d calmed down about this stuff after our move. At nine and a half years she&#8217;s older, but still very strong, graceful, powerful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lughnasa and the Moon of the First Harvest Kate&#8217;s second birthday. Yesterday Jon, Ruth, and Gabe came up after school. Ruth brought a special piece of lemon cake for Kate. Ruth made a birthday card at school with 75 in raised numbers and a sweet note on the back. Gabe sent photographs of minions wishing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=51344\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunny Saturday Morning<\/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":[56,65,127,18,4317,3996],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs","category-family","category-health","category-holidays","category-shadow-mountain","category-third-phase-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51344","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=51344"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51355,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51344\/revisions\/51355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}