{"id":7250,"date":"2010-07-26T07:37:58","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T13:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=7250"},"modified":"2016-05-03T11:26:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T17:26:02","slug":"getting-the-week-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=7250","title":{"rendered":"Getting the Week Underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer\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 Full Grandchildren Moon<\/p>\n<p>Vega the wonder dog update.\u00a0 Now the focus shifts to Vega.\u00a0 Who has learned to open the patio door, both ways, with a quick twist of her super strong neck.\u00a0 Last night Kate and I sat outside reading and talking, a pleasant evening.\u00a0 Vega looked inside, saw her sister Rigel and Kona waiting to come outside.\u00a0 She did what any nice big sister would do.\u00a0 She went over and opened up the door, letting the two out.\u00a0 Of course, like most three year olds she does not close the door.<\/p>\n<p>Hilo goes into the vet today to get her kidney values.\u00a0 We have a little bit of hope that her condition will have improved since her physical.\u00a0 Not likely, but she does seem to feel better now than she has.<\/p>\n<p>Working at memorizing verb conjugations while I&#8217;m off the weekly chapter preparations.\u00a0 Took a yellow tablet to the nightstand last night, reading the perfect tense endings just before I went off to sleep.\u00a0 Sure enough, I dreamed of Julius Caesar and the Appian Way.\u00a0 No.\u00a0 But, I do think I remembered the perfect tense endings. We&#8217;ll see later in the week.<\/p>\n<p>At 2pm today a designer from Mickman&#8217;s comes by to give us an estimate on a water feature for the two patio areas where we&#8217;ve had trouble keeping plants alive.\u00a0 I want something simple, two-levels, with enough noise to shut out the minimal traffic noise from Round Lake Boulevard.\u00a0 Hard to say what the cost will be until he looks at the site.<\/p>\n<p>(you know.\u00a0 something like the pic. just kidding.)<\/p>\n<p>Now outside for a bit more weeding in the cool of the morning, then preparations for my tour tomorrow morning.\u00a0 China, my favorite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer\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 Full Grandchildren Moon Vega the wonder dog update.\u00a0 Now the focus shifts to Vega.\u00a0 Who has learned to open the patio door, both ways, with a quick twist of her super strong neck.\u00a0 Last night Kate and I sat outside reading and talking, a pleasant evening.\u00a0 Vega looked inside, saw her sister Rigel and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=7250\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Getting the Week Underway<\/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":[56,87,566],"tags":[1847,4377,2649,1653,2647,2648],"class_list":["post-7250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs","category-garden","category-humanities","tag-hilo","tag-latin","tag-patio","tag-vega","tag-verb-conjugations","tag-water-feature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7250","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=7250"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36857,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7250\/revisions\/36857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}