I am extremely thankful that I didn’t overdo it yesterday.<\/p>\n
Well, not as much as I have done in the past. <\/p>\n
Anyway, the week is almost up and I go back to the grind on Monday but it has been a lovely time off, each day warmed by firewood provided by Mr B<\/a> and Midwest Chick<\/a>, who helped us fill our woodpile the last two years. Each time I go out to the woodpile I appreciate their contribution, and I look forward to having lower heating bills this winter because of it. <\/p>\n There’s little on earth that I enjoy more than sitting in front of a fire, unless it’s smelling the burning of the hardwood. When we were in Africa, burning the native exotics had a specific and distinctive smell, and I sometimes put my hands on some scraps of that wood I can use just to remember it. <\/p>\n Partner shared our dinner with us yesterday, and it was fine to have him here, we had PIE and watched old PBS mystery programs ( we’re both big fans of Wallender and Inspector Lewis). <\/p>\n And now I’m pointedly not shopping. Hope the rest of you are also that smart. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am extremely thankful that I didn’t overdo it yesterday. Well, not as much as I have done in the past. Anyway, the week is almost up and I go back to the grind on Monday but it has been a lovely time off, each day warmed by firewood provided by Mr B and Midwest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}