{"id":9170,"date":"2011-01-21T10:07:27","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T16:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=9170"},"modified":"2011-01-21T10:15:59","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T16:15:59","slug":"kate-has-other-things-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=9170","title":{"rendered":"Kate Has Other Things To Do"},"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\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 Moon of the Cold Month\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -18 outside right now<\/p>\n<p>Woolly Mammoths on parade.\u00a0 The herd came to the event last night.\u00a0 Docents came, too.\u00a0 Tom and Allison and Kathleen and Wendy and Joy and Carreen and Grace and Jean-Ann <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9171\" title=\"6702011-01-20_0607\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/6702011-01-20_0607.jpg\" alt=\"6702011-01-20_0607\" width=\"282\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/6702011-01-20_0607.jpg 503w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/6702011-01-20_0607-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/>and Paul. Paula came.\u00a0 John Pastorius came.\u00a0 Suwy came, not once, but twice, at the beginning and at the end.\u00a0 From Shoreview.\u00a0 Before and after work.\u00a0 Kate&#8217;s nail lady and hair dresser came.\u00a0 The Perlichs came, Lydia and Pam.\u00a0 Greg and Ana came.\u00a0 Nurses and docs and lab techs from the Coon Rapids Clinic came.\u00a0 Jane and Dobbie West.\u00a0 Around 100 over the evening.\u00a0 Lois and Hank came.\u00a0 Jettie Ann, Jean Ann, Mingjen and a couple of other CIF folks came.\u00a0 There was even a woman who wandered in, not sure what was going on.\u00a0 Once she realized it was a retirement party she went to the gift shop and bought Kate a small beaded purse that matched her jacket.<\/p>\n<p>We gave away fabric bowls, a pillow, a purse and a pint of Artemis Honey.\u00a0 Conversation ebbed and flowed.\u00a0 Servers passed sparkling cider and champagne, appertifs, too.\u00a0 One, a Kobe beef with shrimp in truffle aioli sauce got rave reviews.\u00a0 The Turtle Island String Quartet played through the speakers and the buffet always had a few folks at the counter.<\/p>\n<p>Some wandered off into the museum and came back.\u00a0 Many had not been to the museum before.\u00a0 Many had.\u00a0 Kate wanted the event to provide closure.\u00a0 She said it did.<\/p>\n<p>Then we loaded up the truck and drove home, the temperature dropping degree by degree to -13 as we got home.<\/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\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 Moon of the Cold Month\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -18 outside right now Woolly Mammoths on parade.\u00a0 The herd came to the event last night.\u00a0 Docents came, too.\u00a0 Tom and Allison and Kathleen and Wendy and Joy and Carreen and Grace and Jean-Ann and Paul. Paula came.\u00a0 John Pastorius came.\u00a0 Suwy came, not once, but twice, at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=9170\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kate Has Other Things To Do<\/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":[60,65,473],"tags":[111,740],"class_list":["post-9170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-family","category-retirement","tag-kate","tag-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9170","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=9170"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9174,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9170\/revisions\/9174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}