{"id":5896,"date":"2010-04-02T08:57:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T14:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=5896"},"modified":"2016-05-03T15:49:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T21:49:31","slug":"important-document-read-while-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=5896","title":{"rendered":"Important Document?  Read While Driving."},"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 Awakening Moon<\/p>\n<p>Warning:\u00a0 Rant ahead.\u00a0 Not texting, not brushing teeth, not combing hair, not eating cereal or drinking coffee, no, this young woman I passed on my way to the MIA yesterday read while driving.\u00a0 By reading I do not mean look down, then follow the road, but eyes glued to page, peripheral vision guiding her used buick down Highway 252.\u00a0 I encountered her three times on 252, each time her head and eyes had the same position, eyes on the page, head tilted down.\u00a0 Each time.\u00a0 Then, after I had put her out of my mind, as I drove on 94, the last stretch of the drive in until city streets, she passed me on the left.\u00a0 Yep.\u00a0 You guessed it.\u00a0 Still reading.\u00a0 At this point I honked several times and pointed.\u00a0 Exasperated, she looked at me, then put the several page document on the seat beside her and drove on.<\/p>\n<p>I have a clump of daffodils in bloom, tulips with broad leaves and iris beginning to peak back above the ground.\u00a0 I put cygon on the iris yesterday.\u00a0 This is my one remaining chemical. It kills the iris borer which lives in the soil and wrecks havoc on iris rhizomes.\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve ever lifted iris rhizomes after an attack of iris borer&#8217;s, you will know why I continue to use this one pesticide.<\/p>\n<p>The parsnip and the garlic look good.\u00a0 I poked into the carrot patch where I left the carrots in past ground freeze last fall.\u00a0 Sure enough I have carrots composting in the soil already.\u00a0 Very mushy and yucky.\u00a0\u00a0 The garden and my spirit for it are gradually coming to life.\u00a0 I hope we get some rain.\u00a0 The plants need it.<\/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 Awakening Moon Warning:\u00a0 Rant ahead.\u00a0 Not texting, not brushing teeth, not combing hair, not eating cereal or drinking coffee, no, this young woman I passed on my way to the MIA yesterday read while driving.\u00a0 By reading I do not mean look down, then follow the road, but eyes glued to page, peripheral vision &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=5896\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Important Document?  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