{"id":72,"date":"2006-07-24T11:44:39","date_gmt":"2006-07-24T16:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2006-07-24T11:44:39","modified_gmt":"2006-07-24T16:44:39","slug":"country-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/country-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Country weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We spent the weekend with good friends up at their country property north of Caledon, ON.<\/p>\n<p>Just one night, but a welcome relief from the daily grind.  We picked raspberries until I think it could be awhile before I consume them again.  Poor Finney has started to get carsick over the last few car trips and very quietly and without angst brought up dinner and a slew of raspberries in the car last night on the way home.  She didn&#8217;t even whimper.  Within a minute or so she was her chipper self again.  There are reserves many adults will never tap in their lifetimes in that little girl&#8230;  But she did cry mericilessly for about 1.5 hrs on the trip up, though.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Finn\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/Finn230706.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\nOwen was the older child, and very much seemed so (piteous crying over dropped toys aside&#8230;.).  He seems happier these past two months (more?) than all of last year.  Perhaps this is residual moving-from-Toronto atmospherics, but you just can&#8217;t know for sure.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Owen\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/Owen230706.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n              O.M.C.H. &#8211; Berry Picker extraordinaire<\/p>\n<p>We went for swims and splashes in the pond on our friends&#8217; property and had lots of fun hunting down frogs, who eventually just got bored and stopped swimming away and were caught more easily after awhile.  At first, a few swam into the stream of cold water entering the pond through a pipe and seemed struck with &#8220;Jah-heezuz!  That is truly freaking cold!&#8221; and stopped dead in their tracks making them especiually easy to catch.  They just floated, stunned by the arrival of Iceland into central Ontario&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Finn\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/Frog.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Of course, we took lots of picks of kids frolicking everywhere, but we&#8217;ll save those for their parents to post, if they wish.<\/p>\n<p>  Back to work&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spent the weekend with good friends up at their country property north of Caledon, ON. Just one night, but a welcome relief from the daily grind. We picked raspberries until I think it could be awhile before I consume them again. Poor Finney has started to get carsick over the last few car trips [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}