{"id":20019,"date":"2021-03-19T16:07:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T23:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=20019"},"modified":"2021-03-19T16:07:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T23:07:07","slug":"friday-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2021\/03\/friday-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A good work week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sleeping is improving: I am eating a carby-cheesy supper to help&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have Auggie&#8217;s cremains and as in past losses &#8230; these are strangely comforting.  At some point, I will let them go, but for now &#8230; I hold on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Otherwise &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Holy cow &#8230; some stuff that is not monumental at all, but requires some attention:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My mailbox which has been listing to starboard &#8230; finally gave way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BUT, I was fortunate, that after a morning of phone calls with zero results, I obtained &#8230; thanks to my local hardware &#8230; the name and number of HandyBears Handyman family and I do believe that I hit the jackpot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On other fronts &#8230; an issue with my bathroom sink plumbing was also resolved.  This is no small thing as all of the local contractors are crazy busy.  I happened to call my plumber when he was to be passing by and he &#8230; and another stopped and fixed and I am so, so happy to be back in business in my bathroom sink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The State.of.Montana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The governor saw fit to lift the mask mandate, while saying that he intended to mask and encouraged mask wearing, etc., i.e. covered his backside to all comers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some local businesses are adhering to science, some are not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am again grateful for my little spot of sanity (my 8 acres and adjacent 40 acres of state land) as well as my work committment AND for Emmett&#8217;s companionship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We soldier on!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fri8982.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20022\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fri8982.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fri8982-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fri8982-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fri8982-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fri8982-53x40.jpg 53w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"702\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fri8983.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fri8983.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fri8983-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fri8983-150x117.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fri8983-768x599.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fri8983-51x40.jpg 51w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well. A good work week. Sleeping is improving: I am eating a carby-cheesy supper to help&#8230; I have Auggie&#8217;s cremains and as in past losses &#8230; these are strangely comforting. At some point, I will let them go, but for now &#8230; I hold on. Otherwise &#8230; Holy cow &#8230; some stuff that is not [&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-20019","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\/20019","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=20019"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20024,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20019\/revisions\/20024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}