{"id":15773,"date":"2015-04-11T15:48:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T21:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=15773"},"modified":"2015-04-11T15:48:44","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T21:48:44","slug":"end-of-the-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2015\/04\/end-of-the-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"End of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tax day cometh and with it so much to do in addition to the usual, so it was a FULL week.<\/p>\n<p>BUT, the weather&#8230;the WEATHER!! &#8211; it was beautiful and in defiance of the forecast it was mostly sunny and warm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Apr15\/WEnd1297.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Apr15\/WEnd1297.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Friday afternoon with a forecast of a stormy weekend, I stopped work early and enjoyed the outdoors with Bear and Auggie.  I am fortunate to have flexibility in my work schedule and decided I&#8217;d rather enjoy the sun and work over the weekend in the rain\/snow if the weekend forecast was to be believed.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to tax day etc., I saw my local herbalist this week and came away with a regimen that included 7 nights of hot baths.  <\/p>\n<p>My little house has a LARGE walk in shower, but no bathtub.<\/p>\n<p>Huh.<\/p>\n<p>The herbalist folks suggested a kiddie pool.  That led me to my local &#8220;home and ranch supply&#8221; place and lo and behold that place had a SALE on a 100 gallon stock tank (Rubbermaid) &#8230; as in a watering trough for stock: horses, cows, etc.<\/p>\n<p>I bought one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Apr15\/WEnd1313.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Apr15\/WEnd1313.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ya&#8230; Montana hot tub&#8230;I can hear neighbors Mike and Nancy laughing!!  (THEY have a REAL hot tub :)! )<\/p>\n<p>But, it worked and it was wonderful and I wish I&#8217;d thought of it sooner.  My instructions were to soak for 30 minutes in as hot of water as I could stand.  <\/p>\n<p>So I did.  <\/p>\n<p>On the front porch.  <\/p>\n<p>And it felt SO good!  Afterward, I took a quick rinse off shower, went to bed and slept wonderfully.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait until tonight, to repeat.<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon &#8211; Saturday &#8211; it is blustery and cool and feels more like Fall, than Spring.  The gusts are causing the pine trees to rain pine cones which sent Bear and Auggie inside&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Apr15\/WEnd1315.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Apr15\/WEnd1315.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; to nap.<\/p>\n<p>End of the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tax day cometh and with it so much to do in addition to the usual, so it was a FULL week. BUT, the weather&#8230;the WEATHER!! &#8211; it was beautiful and in defiance of the forecast it was mostly sunny and warm. Friday afternoon with a forecast of a stormy weekend, I stopped work early and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-porch-musings","category-pets","category-weather"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15773"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15779,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15773\/revisions\/15779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}