{"id":5669,"date":"2020-03-27T17:21:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T23:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=5669"},"modified":"2020-03-27T17:51:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T23:51:48","slug":"a-leisurely-stroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2020\/03\/27\/a-leisurely-stroll\/","title":{"rendered":"A Leisurely Stroll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a full day of environmental consulting from home, the fair and industrious Trudy headed out to Costco. I did not go along &mdash; no need to double the size of our target, and anyway, my contribution was in the 60+ line at Whole Foods and hour before opening this morning. (Age has its privileges. But I am not <strong><em>over<\/em><\/strong> 60 yet, so I am not yet in <strong><em>that demographic<\/em><\/strong>. I have two days left.)<\/p>\n<p>Instead of a Costco run, Izzy and I took a leisurely stroll.<\/p>\n<p>We saw two girls taking a video of a caterpillar climbing the trunk of a tree. We saw yellow and red Indian Blankets blanketing a neighbors&rsquo; yard. We saw Prairie Verbena with lavender blossoms and Blue Eyed Grass colonizing the soccer fields.<\/p>\n<p>We looked for Oak saplings in the grassland that the middle school kids are creating in that field. Last fall, I did some <em>guerrilla acorn planting<\/em> there, but there was nothing to show for it except the grasses waving in the wind and a fluttering bird that we startled. That the little grassland is now an avian habitat is something, I suppose, but I was hoping for evidence of Oaks.<\/p>\n<p>We saw a man throwing a frisbee. He threw it hard, and his barking dog would excitedly dash off only to stop well short of halfway from where the disc landed. Not much of a frisbee dog. Izzy seemed never noticed. Not much of a frisbee dog, either.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, somewhere in the distance, I heard bagpipes. At least I <em>think<\/em> I did.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, stop it. there are two days before I am formally <em>over sixty<\/em>. You may snicker at the bagpipes then.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a full day of environmental consulting from home, the fair and industrious Trudy headed out to Costco. I did not go along &mdash; no need to double the size of our target, and anyway, my contribution was in the 60+ line at Whole Foods and hour before opening this morning. (Age has its privileges. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5669"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5672,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5669\/revisions\/5672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}