{"id":235,"date":"2008-08-01T21:20:20","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T01:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/?p=235"},"modified":"2008-08-01T21:23:17","modified_gmt":"2008-08-02T01:23:17","slug":"home-from-our-up-hide-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Home&#8221; from our U.P. hide-away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday and we&#8217;re back home.  I re-read my last post and it definitely needs an addendum. There were some very good parts of our U.P. visit.  <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday John and I finally found time to walk the beach together.  We were pleasantly surprised that the water is a lot higher than last year.  If we have another winter like the winter of 2007-08, the levels may restore the beauty we once enjoyed.  The sandy bottom is still there.  The muck at the edge of the water has improved a lot since last year and was totally gone from some areas.  Yes, there are some cattails, but if the water level continues to rise, they&#8217;ll go away.  We need another fierce Michigan winter or two with lots of snowfall.<\/p>\n<p>We had a lovely afternoon on the beach.  It was about 75 and sunny.  A soft breeze made it perfect.<\/p>\n<p>Too bad we didn&#8217;t have another day to relax. <\/p>\n<p>John worked really hard while we were up there.  I certainly have no room to complain.   He was doing the stuff that takes physical strength.  Yes, we both worked getting the antenna up, but most of the time, I stayed inside away from the mosquitoes, ticks, flies, and pollen (which I&#8217;m really allergic to).  <\/p>\n<p>He got the place back in good shape.  Hopefully when we come back in 2009, the water will be even higher and we can take more &#8220;long-walks.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday and we&#8217;re back home. I re-read my last post and it definitely needs an addendum. There were some very good parts of our U.P. visit. Yesterday John and I finally found time to walk the beach together. We were pleasantly surprised that the water is a lot higher than last year. If we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2008-07-to-08-mid-summer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}