{"id":13344,"date":"2025-06-27T01:59:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T06:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=13344"},"modified":"2025-06-27T05:11:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T10:11:26","slug":"afternoon-at-the-theater-growing-up-and-old-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=13344","title":{"rendered":"afternoon at the theater, growing up, and old dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three beautiful things from my past week:<\/p>\n<p>1. Rudi returns home from his French cycling trip! We celebrate by going on an afternoon date to the movies.<\/p>\n<p>2. The ducklings at the Constitution Garden pond are two weeks older than when I first sighted them. I think this makes them tweens. Large enough to have outgrown the cute and cuddly phase, but still small enough to be needing to hang close to mama duck.<\/p>\n<p>3. I open a new jug of milk and give the kittens the pull tab to play with. Ember rockets around the tub with it in glee. When I wake up the next day, I remember to look under the drain cover, because she is clever enough to pull it up, hide her toy in the drain, and then put the cover back. (Rudi and I were slow on the uptake and spent her first few months here declogging the tub drain as a result.)<\/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 returns home from his French cycling trip! We celebrate by going on an afternoon date to the movies. 2. The ducklings at the Constitution Garden pond are two weeks older than when I first sighted them. I think this makes them tweens. 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