{"id":64018,"date":"2026-08-28T12:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T18:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=64018"},"modified":"2026-08-28T12:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T18:57:19","slug":"64018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=64018","title":{"rendered":"Coming and going"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom left the house about 10, headed for DIA. We had another of our quiet, laid back visits.\u00a0 35+ years makes for communication at the heart level. So good to see him.<\/p>\n<p>Mary has been up in the loft, pulling books off shelves. A yellow pad has my book title scrawls on it for all 20 bookshelves plus some books on the floor and in freestanding book cases. Curating a smaller library for Elk Run. 5 shelves worth. A lot of books.\u00a0Shadow accompanies her. A helper.<\/p>\n<p>BJ is here, continuing her and Pammy&#8217;s search for a place outside a trans-hostile Idaho. Hope they find something that fits them.<\/p>\n<p>Thought about going out to breakfast with Tom. Nope. When planning to heat up leftover moo shu pork, I turned quickly, my hip gave out. Tom grabbed me. Thanks, dude. Not yet ready to be away from home.<\/p>\n<p>Melissa&#8217;s new hours start on Monday. She&#8217;ll be here from 3 to 5. I plan to have her make an evening meal, something for breakfast, and a sandwich for lunch. She&#8217;ll also do some laundry, help me shower.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like Joe and Seoah can&#8217;t be here until the last week of September. Good to see them anytime.<\/p>\n<p>A Dopy Don stiff wave good-bye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom left the house about 10, headed for DIA. We had another of our quiet, laid back visits.\u00a0 35+ years makes for communication at the heart level. So good to see him. Mary has been up in the loft, pulling books off shelves. A yellow pad has my book title scrawls on it for all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=64018\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Coming and going<\/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":[4420,65,4394,11,4317],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-living","category-family","category-fourth-phase","category-friends","category-shadow-mountain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64018","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=64018"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64022,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64018\/revisions\/64022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}