{"id":32500,"date":"2022-05-20T03:50:31","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T03:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/?p=32500"},"modified":"2022-05-20T04:12:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T04:12:44","slug":"things-even-out-eventually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/?p=32500","title":{"rendered":"Things even out&#8230;eventually."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cloak, burdened with a load of mud from its<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nevada_State_Route_49\"> Jungo Road Adventure<\/a>, needed a lot of scraping and scrubbing by Linda sooner rather than later to forestall permanent damage, or<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040029.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32502\" src=\"http:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040029.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040029.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040029-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040029-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040029-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040029-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>at least until Seth and Sonny [one or the other or both of whom had been showing up,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040030.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32503\" src=\"http:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040030.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040030.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040030-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040030-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040030-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040030-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040044.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32506\" src=\"http:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040044.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040044.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040044-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040044-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040044-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040044-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040045.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32507\" src=\"http:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040045.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040045.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040045-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040045-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040045-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040045-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>usually at meditation time, every day since Don and Daisy&#8217;d departed] brought Dave&#8217;s resuscitated water trailer by late Saturday with a power washer and in short order managed to<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040047.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32508\" src=\"http:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040047.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040047.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040047-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040047-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040047-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040047-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>finish the de-gumbo-ing.\u00a0 Finally Sunday, Aggie&#8217;s 14th birthday, was a day without anyone<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040030a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32504\" src=\"http:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040030a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040030a.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040030a-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040030a-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040030a-624x832.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and a lovely day for dogs to render themselves ever more high maintenance with the quirky<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040031.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32505\" src=\"http:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040031.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040031.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040031-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040031-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040031-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040031-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040052.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32509\" src=\"http:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040052.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040052.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040052-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040052-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040052-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040052-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>but low maintenance birthday girl on the porch for lunch and later, as Birthday for Dogs,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040054.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32510\" src=\"http:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040054.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040054.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040054-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040054-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040054-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040054-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040058.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32511\" src=\"http:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040058.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040058.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040058-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040058-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040058-624x832.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>aged salmon from the freezer all around, while for us a most pleasant [though I was a little bummed, having somehow damaged my wrist loading limbs into the Chevy earlier] dinner<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040059.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32512\" src=\"http:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040059.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040059.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040059-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040059-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040059-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040059-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040063.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32513\" src=\"http:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040063.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040063.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040063-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040063-1024x543.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040063-768x407.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040063-624x331.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>out in anticipation of the Total Lunar Eclipse.\u00a0 Which I most disastrously by minutes missed soon after the above photo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cloak, burdened with a load of mud from its Jungo Road Adventure, needed a lot of scraping and scrubbing by Linda sooner rather than later to forestall permanent damage, or at least until Seth and Sonny [one or the other or both of whom had been showing up, usually at meditation time, every day 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