{"id":656,"date":"2004-03-26T22:29:01","date_gmt":"2004-03-27T03:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=656"},"modified":"2005-01-15T13:30:24","modified_gmt":"2005-01-15T18:30:24","slug":"spring-is-busting-out-all-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=656","title":{"rendered":"Spring Is Busting Out All Over!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been pushing 70F here in western Minnesota.  I haven&#8217;t gone for any walks because I&#8217;ve had indoor duties but I did take Edda and Freya out on their cat leashes to see the bird feeder and I washed and aired the two afghans I&#8217;ve been working on.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afghansforafghans.org\">second<\/a> still needs to be bordered but I need to wait to get the yarn for that.  In the meantime, I&#8217;ve started my next project with some of the leftovers from the donor afghan.  I&#8217;m working on squares and once I reach 64, I&#8217;m going to make them into a blanket.  I haven&#8217;t quite decided the color scheme yet &#8212; all I know is that it will be a black and [insert color] checkerboard pattern.  I&#8217;m leaning toward blue so that it matches our sheets.  I&#8217;m also still working on squares for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peacefulwaters.org\/domesticated\/index.php?m=200403#42\">the exchange<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is supposed to be stormy but that gives me an excuse to work on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0972304401\/qid=1080361564\/sr=8-1\/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14\/103-6267505-3414242?v=glance&#038;s=books&#038;n=507846\">my book<\/a> (which is probably more interesting as a Silicon Valley native and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucsc.edu\">UCSC alum<\/a> because I get all the inside jokes) and make more squares.  Sunday is church and the annual <em>klub<\/em> dinner for one of the churches.  (Several members have explained to me that <em>klub<\/em> tastes like ham-flavored wallpaper paste but I&#8217;ll &#8220;like it once I acquire the taste&#8221;.  Well&#8230; when they explain it so&#8230; interestingly&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been pushing 70F here in western Minnesota. I haven&#8217;t gone for any walks because I&#8217;ve had indoor duties but I did take Edda and Freya out on their cat leashes to see the bird feeder and I washed and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=656\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-minnesota-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-aA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}