{"id":8909,"date":"2016-07-26T10:55:49","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T07:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=8909"},"modified":"2016-09-09T14:11:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T11:11:11","slug":"lively-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/lively-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Lively Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Max and his young daughter arrived for the weekend mid-Saturday morning, so it was a very lively weekend. Of course, I&#8217;m trapped in the middle of a huge project, so I was glued to my computer all weekend. We all let one another do our own thing and I just continued with my normal routine, including walking the dogs.<\/p>\n<p>Late Saturday evening, Max invited me to join him and some friends for a BBQ. I&#8217;d already had dinner, so I just sampled a few things, including <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rakia\">rakia<\/a>, a Bulgarian fruit brandy that was quite good.<\/p>\n<p>I really did need to be up and at &#8217;em Sunday because of work, so I begged off close to midnight and, thanks to the rakia, pretty much passed out. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Even though there were two young and vivacious girls having a slumber party above me, the night was quiet and I slept well and woke up under my own steam. I took the dogs out Sunday morning and then just worked steadily through the day. It&#8217;ll be long days until this project is done, but it&#8217;s too important to turn down. Max did laundry both mornings, which set me behind a bit in my schedule since the washer is in my kitchen, where I work, and it&#8217;s hard to type with the machine going.<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u00a0morning was also pretty much a write-off, work-wise, because Max&#8217;s friend was here to start working on fixing his leaky roof. So lots of chainsawing going on! With all that Mexico experience behind me, I worked through as much of the noise as I could and caught up on other things when I couldn&#8217;t. By one, I was alone again and it was blissfully quiet, but I still had to work until past ten p.m.<\/p>\n<p>I expected more roof work today, but so far nothing. I&#8217;m typing steadily and hoping to get enough ahead to be able to take a day trip to Sofia later this week, but I&#8217;m not holding my breath. Can&#8217;t complain about work going well, though! And I&#8217;m really glad to have the dogs as an excuse to go hiking\u00a0twice a day. By five or so, I&#8217;m bleary eyed and it&#8217;s lovely to break for an hour to stretch my legs.<\/p>\n<p>So not much going on here, I&#8217;m afraid, just life as usual, but in a different setting. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max and his young daughter arrived for the weekend mid-Saturday morning, so it was a very lively weekend. Of course, I&#8217;m trapped in the middle of a huge project, so I was glued to my computer all weekend. We all let one another do our own thing and I just continued with my normal routine, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,636,917,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulgaria","category-europe","category-malak-izvor","category-travel","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}