{"id":5930,"date":"2015-08-14T02:01:09","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T07:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=5930"},"modified":"2015-08-14T04:02:40","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T09:02:40","slug":"oasis-old-friends-and-like-a-lemonade-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=5930","title":{"rendered":"oasis, old friends, and like a lemonade stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/20374498888\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"A Scoop from Tarrytown&#x27;s Main Street Sweets\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5720\/20374498888_aac3e27a96_n.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"280\" align=left alt=\"A Scoop from Tarrytown&#x27;s Main Street Sweets\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/20374496480\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Soft-serve with Sprinkles\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5802\/20374496480_8eeb35edcf_n.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"280\" alt=\"Soft-serve with Sprinkles\" align=right hspace=2><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Three (more) beautiful things from my past week:<\/p>\n<p>1. We eat Sunday supper on the back deck at my folks&#8217;. Torches (and copious amounts of bug spray) ward away mosquitoes. The weather is perfect. Our barbecue is delicious. And the heavy-duty strand of lights my parents and I hung the day before off the side of the house allow us to see clearly even after the sun has set. <\/p>\n<p>2. Eri and I meet up Friday evening along the Hudson River. We drink smoothies and sit in the park and meet a gigantic and friendly cat on a leash (and his equally friendly owner) and eat veggie burgers and fries outside. Karen and I meet up for lunch on Sunday in my old town. We walk along Main Street and end up at a cafe that moved in after I left and eat tasty crepes and drink Avery sodas on their front patio. We conclude our visit with a trip to the coffeehouse, my favorite spot on the planet to get steamed milk.<\/p>\n<p>3. We pull over to pick up a couple ears of corn from a pair of boys who&#8217;ve set up a stand in their front yard. A self-propelled car left over from toddler days holds spare ears.<\/p>\n<p>How about you? What&#8217;s been beautiful in your world this week?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Three (more) beautiful things from my past week: 1. We eat Sunday supper on the back deck at my folks&#8217;. Torches (and copious amounts of bug spray) ward away mosquitoes. The weather is perfect. Our barbecue is delicious. 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