{"id":10616,"date":"2020-10-02T01:39:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T06:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=10616"},"modified":"2020-10-02T03:50:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T08:50:43","slug":"waving-their-pool-noodles-fall-fairies-and-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=10616","title":{"rendered":"waving their pool noodles, fall fairies, and tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/50407526557\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Pool Noodle Football\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50407526557_20a1934176_w.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"183\" alt=\"Pool Noodle Football\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Three beautiful things from my past week:<\/p>\n<p>1. Rudi and I have seen these guys playing in the park by the garden once before. They seem to have a weekly pool noodle football game. As best as we can tell, it&#8217;s a variation on flag football, but with less touching, presumably for sake of COVID-19. Either way, it amuses me greatly to see these guys running around waving their pool noodles in the air.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/50406663083\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Pool Noodle Football\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50406663083_26090211b9_w.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"270\" alt=\"Pool Noodle Football\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>2. At my request, Rudi picked up Halloween-hued fairy lights from Target. We&#8217;ve only strung one of the three strands so far, but the orange, green, and purple lights make the early darkness more bearable.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/50407516932\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Pool Noodle Football\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50407516932_c1db203571_w.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"282\" alt=\"Pool Noodle Football\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>3. Sarah and I refused to let the pandemic keep us from our annual fall tradition of picking apples and buying cider doughnuts.<\/p>\n<p><center><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/50407378296\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Sarah at the Apple Orchard\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50407378296_c7d3da0021_w.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Sarah at the Apple Orchard\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>How about you? What&#8217;s been beautiful in your world lately?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three beautiful things from my past week: 1. Rudi and I have seen these guys playing in the park by the garden once before. They seem to have a weekly pool noodle football game. As best as we can tell, it&#8217;s a variation on flag football, but with less touching, presumably for sake of COVID-19. 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