{"id":10964,"date":"2021-09-07T08:43:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T15:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=10964"},"modified":"2022-10-17T10:27:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T17:27:38","slug":"yawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2021\/09\/07\/yawn\/","title":{"rendered":"Yawn&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hope everyone had a good Labor Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was quiet here, thankfully. We didn&#8217;t even have the usual garage sales. That was a bit strange, but it meant that the neighborhood was quiet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even the crazy folks on the next block weren&#8217;t screaming obscenities or arguing with the voices in their heads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was forced to be quiet because I&#8217;m nursing a bum knee. It&#8217;s getting better but only incrementally. On the plus side, if I stay off it I&#8217;m not in pain. That means I can, in a mostly guilt free way sit on my butt. Even the dog has figured out that something is very wrong with dad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, I got antsy and used my chain saw to help a neighbor, (who&#8217;s just recovered from knee surgery,) thin out some plants that grow between our properties. I heard him trying to get his chain saw running several times, to no effect. He was grumbling but not cussing about it. I figured that the neighborly thing to do was help out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was nice, he totally got that I&#8217;d be moving slow and was content to point out what he wanted to cut down, then let me get situated and do the cutting. He handled removing the material. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It worked out well. I really needed to be outside being productive, if only for a short while. I only paid a small price for being up and active. Spending the rest of the late afternoon with my knee up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know, we&#8217;re not supposed to &#8220;work&#8221; on Labor Day but ehh I needed to do something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_2238-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10965\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_2238-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_2238-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_2238.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re already seeing signs of Fall. Some of the trees are just starting to change. On the one hand that&#8217;s nice because it means that it will start cooling off and usually brings the fire season to a close. On the other hand, it means time&#8217;s getting short for me to get summer projects done that have been delayed due to various injuries and disasters here at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve got maybe another month and a half to get some caulking &amp; painting done before the paint won&#8217;t setup correctly due to temperature swings. Much as I hate to do it, I may have to force the knee into service a little before it&#8217;s ready.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have a good short week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hope everyone had a good Labor Day. It was quiet here, thankfully. We didn&#8217;t even have the usual garage sales. That was a bit strange, but it meant that the neighborhood was quiet. Even the crazy folks on the next block weren&#8217;t screaming obscenities or arguing with the voices in their heads. I was forced &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2021\/09\/07\/yawn\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yawn&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,111,89],"tags":[177,176,221],"class_list":["post-10964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-holidays","category-smelling-the-roses","tag-general","tag-holidays","tag-smelling-the-roses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10964"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10991,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10964\/revisions\/10991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}