{"id":13047,"date":"2024-04-26T01:49:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T06:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=13047"},"modified":"2024-04-26T04:25:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T09:25:07","slug":"favorite-pup-take-me-out-and-water-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=13047","title":{"rendered":"favorite pup, take me out, and water on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/53679874968\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Naya\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53679874968_2759c2033d_w.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Naya\"\/><\/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 got to spend several days looking after my friend Neal&#8217;s dog, Naya. <\/p>\n<p>2. We made it to our first baseball game of the season this week. The Nats were not impressed enough by this to win, but their starter did put in five solid, run-free innings before the bullpen doomed his best outing of 2024. Regardless, it was nice to be in the park with our friend Pat and his nearly 20-year-old son, Jack. (We also went with Jack to his very first baseball game oh so many years ago.)<\/p>\n<p>3. The faucet at the garden had been off for the season, which means we&#8217;ve been hauling gallons of water from home in our solar shower the last few weeks. Today, after I put the last of the plants we bought two weekends ago into the ground, I found it had been turned on in the past day or so! The garden appreciated a good dousing!<\/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. 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