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Alison’s handiwork to welcome me home – so sweet!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I flew back to Hot Springs Tuesday night, arriving Wednesday mid-day. Cousins James and Marybeth arrived later in the day and are staying with me while they attend his 60th high school reunion activities. We took BBQ to David and Alison’s Wednesday night, then we all crashed after a long travel day. . The weather here is gorgeous – not too hot, everything’s in bloom, and there’s a nice breeze off the lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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James and Marybeth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I’ve done some clothes shopping and am taking care of some appointments, so I haven’t had a lot of downtime. Scott and Julie came for happy hour Thursday night. I enjoyed sitting outside at David and Alison’s last evening, eating grilled salmon and feeling the breeze. I’ve gone to yoga twice at the new studio and it’s great, although I miss Karen, who has retired to Fayetteville. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I re-read “Vladimir” and started “A Far-Flung Life” by M.L. Stedman (set in Australia). I’ve been watching “Imperfect Women.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I helped this little guy across the road this morning while I was out for a walk. He was small! Probably a young one. I thought at first that he was dead because he was slow to pull his head in when I picked him up. As I looped back home, he was still sitting in the same spot where I left him, so I went back to check on him a couple of hours later, armed with water and apples, but he was gone! I hope he’s ok!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Good luck, little fella!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I flew back to Hot Springs Tuesday night, arriving Wednesday mid-day. Cousins James and Marybeth arrived later in the day and are staying with me while they attend his 60th high school reunion activities. We took BBQ to David and Alison’s Wednesday night, then we all crashed after a long travel day. . The weather […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8174"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8174"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8180,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8174\/revisions\/8180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}