{"id":4009,"date":"2015-10-07T17:46:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T23:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=4009"},"modified":"2016-11-04T12:36:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T10:36:06","slug":"a-gift-of-an-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/a-gift-of-an-afternoon\/","title":{"rendered":"A Gift of an Afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After several days of grey, damp, and cold weather, plus a grey, damp, and cold morning, this afternoon erupted with sun and temperatures in the high teens! And it&#8217;s not just a one-off, we might hit the low 20s by the weekend. I love Indian Summer!<\/p>\n<p>I made a sale on eBay today and decided to head out after work to ship it. I was going to go\u00a0to Willow Bunch when I realised I had enough errands to make it worth doing a couple of trips to Assiniboia this week. So that&#8217;s where I headed instead. And I wore sandals! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>This week has been so different from last week, energy-wise. I pretty much lost the Monday to Tuesday night of sleep last week and didn&#8217;t recover till the weekend. I spent the whole week in a bit of a fog where all my energy went to work, of which there was an inordinate amount. This week, I&#8217;m caught up on sleep and doing full nights, so I&#8217;m awake before my alarm. Not being woken by it makes all the difference. I&#8217;m productive during my day, have good focus, and still have energy to spare to do overtime, although it looks like I&#8217;m done putting out fires and I can take it easy the next couple of days&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The trip to town was a bit frustrating as the Co-Op gas bar has had some staffing changes and they rarely have anyone available to do propane. So I haven&#8217;t been able to get my 30lber refilled in my last two trips! Thank goodness we&#8217;re going into a warming trend or I would be seriously concerned about freezing! And I&#8217;d be really\u00a0worried if I was going to be spending the winter here. I&#8217;m going to have a chat with the manager next time I see her.<\/p>\n<p>One of my stops was to order two new tires for my truck. I had priced some at Walmart when I was in Moose Jaw and Kal Tire&#8217;s price of $122 per tire installed was competitive enough for me to feel that I wasn&#8217;t being a schmuck for supporting my local store.<\/p>\n<p>Off to make dinner. I know I&#8217;m almost a week early for Thanksgiving, but the roast chickens were on sale today, so I&#8217;m doing a bird with a few trimmings for dinner tonight. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After several days of grey, damp, and cold weather, plus a grey, damp, and cold morning, this afternoon erupted with sun and temperatures in the high teens! And it&#8217;s not just a one-off, we might hit the low 20s by the weekend. I love Indian Summer! I made a sale on eBay today and decided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1053,632,4,635,807,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assiniboia","category-canada","category-haven","category-north-america","category-saskatchewan","category-travel","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}