{"id":626,"date":"2006-08-14T23:45:34","date_gmt":"2006-08-14T22:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.tjerngren.net\/wp\/?p=626"},"modified":"2006-08-15T00:24:17","modified_gmt":"2006-08-14T23:24:17","slug":"long-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/?p=626","title":{"rendered":"<b>Long Time<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s shameful the way I&#8217;ve neglected my blog lately, and I assure you that I am indeed ashamed.  I can&#8217;t say for sure what&#8217;s kept me from posting.  We have been pretty busy with friends and family and home improvements and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mosaicminds.net\">Mosaic Minds<\/a> and getting ready for back-to-school\/back-to-work and various other activities, but there&#8217;s been nothing so pressing that I couldn&#8217;t have carved out time for a new entry here and there.  I think mostly we can chalk my negligence up to the heat.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, though the heat wave broke for the rest of Sweden some time back, it&#8217;s still hot and miserably humid up here in Norrland.  It&#8217;s rained maybe three times the entire summer, and not at all in recent memory.  There&#8217;s not a green lawn in sight and the river through town is pathetically low.  Every day we wake up to blue skies and hot sun, and it doesn&#8217;t show signs of stopping.  We could probably single-handedly save the threatened potato harvests, if only we could figure out a way to collect our perspiration &#8230; at least then we could feel that all this sweating was to a good purpose.  Did I mention it&#8217;s miserable?<\/p>\n<p>In cheerier news, Tage celebrated his fourth birthday yesterday.  We had a little&#8211;well, not so little, considering the size of this family, but you get the idea&#8211;family party on our front porch, and a good time was had by all.  The birthday boy received a veritable wealth of presents, but the hands-down best gift came from his two-year-old cousin, Irma:  a whoopie cushion!  He had never seen such a thing before, but as he has only quite recently discovered the unmatchable delights of farting and fart jokes, such a gift could hardly have come at a better time.  In the short time he&#8217;s had it, it&#8217;s already provided hours of fun and uncontrollable laughter.<\/p>\n<p>So, now we&#8217;ve got two birthdays down and just Lydia&#8217;s left until we&#8217;re off the hook for another year.  As luck would have it, she has decided to forego a big peer party this year in favor of a small bowling outing for her and her best friend and me and Helena.  It feels like I&#8217;m getting off so easy there that I almost have to pinch myself to believe it.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I&#8217;ll leave you with a few pictures from Tage&#8217;s party yesterday.  <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kids.tjerngren.net\/tage\/images\/spidermancake13august2006.jpg\" border=1 alt=\"Spiderman\"\/><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kids.tjerngren.net\/tage\/images\/tagecandles13august2006.jpg\" border=1 alt=\"Blowing out the candles\"\/><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kids.tjerngren.net\/tage\/images\/tagewhoopiecushion13august2006.jpg\" border=1 alt=\"Whoopie!!\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s shameful the way I&#8217;ve neglected my blog lately, and I assure you that I am indeed ashamed. I can&#8217;t say for sure what&#8217;s kept me from posting. We have been pretty busy with friends and family and home improvements and Mosaic Minds and getting ready for back-to-school\/back-to-work and various other activities, but there&#8217;s been&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/?p=626\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Long Time<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","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=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}