{"id":9091,"date":"2011-01-12T11:13:32","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T17:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=9091"},"modified":"2016-05-14T16:45:27","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T22:45:27","slug":"retired-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=9091","title":{"rendered":"Retired at Last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winter\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 Waxing Moon of the Cold Month<\/p>\n<p>Kate&#8217;s sewing on the machine she keeps here at Jon and Jen&#8217;s.\u00a0 We retrieved it last night and brought it back to the hotel room.\u00a0 The room supplies an ironing board and iron, with her cutting mats and rotary cutters&#8211;and those $23 to transport scissors&#8211;she&#8217;s in her favorite place, sewing.\u00a0 She said yesterday that her retirement couldn&#8217;t really start until she could start sewing.\u00a0 Well, it&#8217;s officially started now.<\/p>\n<p>The Sierra Club legcom meeting is at 5 pm tonight, so I spent an hour organizing material for the agenda and sending it out.\u00a0 That&#8217;s finished.\u00a0 Good thing Jon asked last night what time the meeting was.\u00a0 I said, &#8220;5 pm.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;Oh, so at 4 pm our time?&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;Huh?\u00a0 4?\u00a0 Yikes.&#8221;\u00a0 I would have missed it for sure.\u00a0 Not used to this jetset lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p>Once again breakfast has cowboy hats and bluejeans.\u00a0 One young boy, maybe 14, wore a t-shirt that read:\u00a0 &#8220;Nothing&#8217;s more important than beating that COW COLLEGE on the other side of the state.&#8221;\u00a0 Coach Bear Bryant\u00a0 A clutch of young girls came up around his table where he sat with three slightly older boys.<\/p>\n<p>Then began the mock teasing, playful hits, frowns and cagey responses.\u00a0 One blond headed girl leaned over a boy with a RockStar hat, whispered in his ear, then went across the room and got him a cup of\u00a0 coffee.\u00a0 They were prodigies among children.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I plan to take Jon and Jen out to a country Japanese restaurant called Domo.\u00a0 Sounds interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter\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 Waxing Moon of the Cold Month Kate&#8217;s sewing on the machine she keeps here at Jon and Jen&#8217;s.\u00a0 We retrieved it last night and brought it back to the hotel room.\u00a0 The room supplies an ironing board and iron, with her cutting mats and rotary cutters&#8211;and those $23 to transport scissors&#8211;she&#8217;s in her favorite &hellip; 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