{"id":177,"date":"2004-07-10T19:38:29","date_gmt":"2004-07-10T17:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.tjerngren.net\/wp\/?p=177"},"modified":"2004-07-10T19:38:29","modified_gmt":"2004-07-10T17:38:29","slug":"let-the-sun-shine-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"Let the sun shine in!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been warm and sunny all day long with scarcely a cloud in the sky.  I could hardly believe my eyes when I got out of bed this morning and was greeted by clear blue skies.  I think I&#8217;d almost forgotten what how nice a real summer day could be.  <\/p>\n<p>After lunch we drove down to L&ouml;v&aring;nger, a town about a half-hour south of here, to go to the annual handcrafts fair they have at the old church village there.  There were a few things I was interested in buying, but I wasn&#8217;t interested enough to make a trip to the ATM to take out money, so we left empty-handed.  A couple of years ago I got a great little applewood butter knife there that one of the dogs ended up eating, and I was tempted to replace it, but not tempted enough apparently.  Places like that are always easier to navigate without the kids in tow, and I had taken Asbj&oslash;rn along as well, which made it that much harder to do a thorough browsing of all the stands.  It&#8217;s probably just as well, though, since my pocketbook doesn&#8217;t really need the hit just now.<\/p>\n<p>I had wanted to check out the local flower shop while we were there, but they closed by the time we got over to that side of the street.  When will I start remembering that everything in Sweden closes early on Saturdays?  I was pretty disappointed that I didn&#8217;t make it in there, and now I&#8217;ve got myself convinced that the place was chock-full of rare and beautiful geranium varieties.  Oh, the pain of missing out!<\/p>\n<p>When we got home I spent most of the rest of the afternoon outside puttering around and Olof worked in the garage sanding the door for Lydia&#8217;s new room.  I&#8217;m pretty happy with my lawn and flowerbeds these days.  This is the first year since we bought the house that I&#8217;ve done much in the way of beautification projects, and I&#8217;m really started to feel inspired to make a flower extravaganza out there next summer.  I&#8217;d forgotten until recently how much fun greenhouses and flower gardening can be.<\/p>\n<p>I took a picture of the front of the house a couple of hours ago to remind myself later that it doesn&#8217;t <i>always<\/i> rain here.  Also, I usually take pictures from my balcony or out an upstairs window, so posting a picture of my own house is a nice change of pace.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/home.tjerngren.net\/revelry\/images\/housesunnyday10july2004.jpg\" border=1><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a picture of my faithful companion, Asbj&oslash;rn, waiting patiently for me to come back on the porch:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/home.tjerngren.net\/revelry\/images\/asbjoernonporch10july2004.jpg\" border=1><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been warm and sunny all day long with scarcely a cloud in the sky. I could hardly believe my eyes when I got out of bed this morning and was greeted by clear blue skies. I think I&#8217;d almost forgotten what how nice a real summer day could be. After lunch we drove down&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/?p=177\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Let the sun shine in!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}