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<\/a><\/p>\nFriday on the Middle Road to Gardner, the relief of a little rain,<\/p>\n
a second Saturday’s shopping at Leon\u2019s<\/p>\n and then on the twelfth day we got all the way<\/p>\n to our log up the creek…though the second time, Monday<\/p>\n with an additional three dogs, wasn\u2019t exactly relaxing.<\/p>\n Tuesday that project was put on hold for an overly warm morn of errands in the \u2018burg and a farewell lunch at Val and Mark\u2019s, who are leaving their faithful goats to a dubious caretaker<\/p>\n and their farm fallow while they travel the world extravagantly for free.\u00a0 Me I can\u2019t imagine a much worse torture than spending months on end as a tourist on airplanes but to each their very own<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0Lunch was deliciously dystopian, assaultively salted and so abundant that L. eschewed food until Wednesday morning while I cut back to salad and bardolino for dinner.<\/p>\n My only exploration to date having been that ten minute detour to Indian Rock<\/a> last month I decided to merely contemplate the four new canvases until after our upcoming trip to New Mexico.\u00a0 Meanwhile a book<\/a> arrived, wherein Rudy raised the picture-taking bar considerably.<\/p>\n Chastened but undeterred I persisted<\/p>\n while the blonde redhead continued to dog our daily walks and<\/p>\n sunshine brought flowers.<\/p>\n Saturday saw more mosquitoes up the creek, a run into town for the USPO and El Depot, first cuttings and The Navigation<\/p>\n of our resident loonie’s Chokepoint Polluto going and coming<\/p>\n but no Leon, as the Bear’d gotten into the greenhouse, decimating carrots, romaine and more.<\/p>\n So, on…<\/p>\n on to a last day wherein we made it to the LoPine, first time for me in about a year.<\/p>\n Happily the season formerly known as “rainy” continues;<\/p>\n Nex’, New Mex’.<\/p>\n M<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ten days in we finally made it to the spring, mosquitoes [not shown] notwithstanding. Friday on the Middle Road to Gardner, the relief of a little rain, a second Saturday’s shopping at Leon\u2019s and then on the twelfth day we got all the way to our log up the creek…though the second time, Monday with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14093"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14158,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14093\/revisions\/14158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n