{"id":6362,"date":"2024-06-28T18:39:27","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T00:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=6362"},"modified":"2024-06-28T18:47:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T00:47:47","slug":"roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2024\/06\/28\/roles\/","title":{"rendered":"Roles"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>1. Where They Are<\/h3>\n<p>Their annual trip north is underway: Trudy, Izzy and The Man.<\/p>\n<p>Tonite finds them in western Kentucky at the Corps of Engineers Eureka Campground on the northern shores of Lake Barkley. If you time things right you can gawk at coal barges being pushed east thru the canal. Miss Izzy timed things right today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jumpingfish.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2024\/06\/i-s5dQhFZ\/A\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Izzy gawks at coal barges\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2024\/06\/i-s5dQhFZ\/0\/KNXctJWgqDFk6sBnbKBRJwqx3dwHLMt6KCXQS52Fx\/M\/IMG_3150-M.jpg\" alt=\"Izzy gawks at coal barges being pushed thru the canal by a tugboat with a boat racing by waving to the tugboat captain\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And you might enjoy dinner with a breeze coming off the water as afternoon gives way to late-in-the-day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jumpingfish.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2024\/06\/i-xr5GgbH\/A\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"looking out over Lake Barkley\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2024\/06\/i-xr5GgbH\/0\/KTDs8QVwCv5hvcH8pC8LwFCBx34WsShVsCFpm7mDM\/M\/IMG_3153-M.jpg\" alt=\"the view from our campsite looking into the breeze coming off Lake Barkley\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>2. The Roles They Play<\/h3>\n<p>As usual, the role of the Fair and Industrious Trudy has been <em>trip <strong>planner<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/em><i>extraordinaire<\/i>. The destinations for eight nights of camping were selected and reserved by her. She picked the routes, meticulously cultivating varieties of intentionally slow back-country roads to ensure that getting there is part of the fun.<\/p>\n<p>Izzy&rsquo;s role has been that of <em>faithful <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">napper<\/span> <strong>companion<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The man&#8217;s role has mostly been behind the wheel which includes backing the trailer, but sadly it seems, does not include following instructions. As Trudy will quietly confide (with the man safely out of ear shot), he seems to be responsible for heading west and south, which when you&rsquo;re traveling north and east is distinctly unhelpful making him the <em><strong>prolonger<\/strong> of getting there is part of the fun<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Where They Are Their annual trip north is underway: Trudy, Izzy and The Man. Tonite finds them in western Kentucky at the Corps of Engineers Eureka Campground on the northern shores of Lake Barkley. If you time things right you can gawk at coal barges being pushed east thru the canal. Miss Izzy timed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6362"}],"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=6362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6364,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6362\/revisions\/6364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}