{"id":64034,"date":"2026-09-01T07:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T13:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=64034"},"modified":"2026-09-01T07:31:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T13:31:44","slug":"ready-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=64034","title":{"rendered":"Ready. Set."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Natalie gave me a good Shadow her on a leash every 2-3 hours. I see the point; but, I can&#8217;t walk without the walker. Something I have proven to myself more than once. Falls. I just messaged Natalie asking for more ideas.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to try to walk with her while I stay close to the chain link fence. One hand on the leash, one hand on the fence. Might work. It worked. Sort of. I held onto the fence, didn&#8217;t fall. She came along. I did this right after she ate, hoping she would need to pee or poop. Didn&#8217;t happen. I can do this every three hours or so. Not really a walk, but as close as I can get. Melissa can take her on a walk.<\/p>\n<p>Melissa started her new schedule yesterday. She made Shepherd&#8217;s Pie and a salad for my evening meal. She also made breakfast for this morning and a lunch. That will be our rhythm for the next two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Working on moving tasks. USPS change of address. A roofer to assess my roof. A septic tank person to do a mandatory examination of my septic system. I have a comprehensive list of tasks I need to do. Checking it twice.<\/p>\n<p>Joe&#8217;s coming on the 13th. He&#8217;ll leave on the 18th. Will be good to have him here during the transition.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natalie gave me a good Shadow her on a leash every 2-3 hours. I see the point; but, I can&#8217;t walk without the walker. Something I have proven to myself more than once. Falls. I just messaged Natalie asking for more ideas. I am going to try to walk with her while I stay close &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=64034\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ready. Set.<\/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":[4420,56,4394,4317],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-living","category-dogs","category-fourth-phase","category-shadow-mountain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64034","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=64034"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64037,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64034\/revisions\/64037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}