{"id":16269,"date":"2015-09-24T19:56:49","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T01:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=16269"},"modified":"2015-09-24T19:56:49","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T01:56:49","slug":"almost-friday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2015\/09\/almost-friday-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Work continues to be crazy busy, but easing a bit&#8230;mostly due to the fact that I&#8217;ve broached the worst part of the learning curve for our new way of doing things.  There is an October 1 deadline so it is still head down and fingers flying.<\/p>\n<p>However.  One must eat and sleep and rub the stomachs of Bear and Auggie, walk in the woods and partake of this last week of almost summer-like weather &#8211; 74F today!<\/p>\n<p>The walking plan with my neighbor hit a snag last week and she is moving to a new job which will put the kibosh on morning walking.  I&#8217;ve taken to doing things like aerobic yard raking and next week will start a plan of a 2-4 mile walk with Bear at lunchtime.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, though, my neighbor&#8217;s chickens are still a-laying on schedule and this morning I got a fresh 2 dozen:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep15\/Almost2301.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep15\/Almost2301.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The photo does not do it justice.  There is the largest egg I&#8217;ve ever seen.  I got out my kitchen scale and most of the eggs weighed 48-62 grams.  The monster weighed in at 80 grams!  I plan to poach it on Sunday.  Yes, there will be photos.  I&#8217;m wondering if it is a double.  We will see.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep15\/Almost2302.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep15\/Almost2302.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Auggie is running the bookmaking on single, double or a long shot triple&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep15\/Almost2304.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep15\/Almost2304.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think I noted that it was 74F today.  Shade-time for the Beardog!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep15\/Almost2307.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep15\/Almost2307.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A lovely afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep15\/Almost2312.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep15\/Almost2312.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yet another photo of the fuschia.  They show signs of fading a bit, but still &#8211; beautiful!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep15\/Almost2321.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep15\/Almost2321.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to his bookie duties, Auggie is mostly back on track with his daily rounds.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep15\/Almost2322.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep15\/Almost2322.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is exhausting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep15\/Almost2314.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep15\/Almost2314.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Almost Friday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work continues to be crazy busy, but easing a bit&#8230;mostly due to the fact that I&#8217;ve broached the worst part of the learning curve for our new way of doing things. There is an October 1 deadline so it is still head down and fingers flying. However. One must eat and sleep and rub the [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-porch-musings"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16269","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=16269"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16274,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16269\/revisions\/16274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}