{"id":11408,"date":"2012-09-21T17:50:55","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T00:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=11408"},"modified":"2012-09-21T17:50:55","modified_gmt":"2012-09-22T00:50:55","slug":"taking-time-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/21\/taking-time-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking time off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This coming week looks like a nice, long pause between rounds of deadlines. So I&#8217;m taking time off.<\/p>\n<p>I hesitate to do it because I have this terrible fear that all you lovely readers will stampede to somebody else&#8217;s blog if I miss more than a few days and never return. <\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I know better. If you&#8217;ve put up with me so far, I have faith you&#8217;ll put up with me a week from now. Besides, even in my absence, there will probably be conversations going on in the comment sections. And there are always <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/?tag=livifree07-20\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon links<\/a> in need of clicking. (Yeah, shameless plug. Sorry.)<\/p>\n<p>In any case, every time I say that blogging will be &#8220;lite,&#8221; that&#8217;s exactly when I get inspired to write something <del datetime=\"2012-09-21T00:51:08+00:00\">brilliant<\/del> <del datetime=\"2012-09-21T00:51:08+00:00\">insightful<\/del> <del datetime=\"2012-09-21T00:51:08+00:00\">devastatingly witty<\/del> else. So who knows? Possibly I&#8217;ll even get a chance to prep and advance-schedule a few blog entries to magically appear.<\/p>\n<p>Mostly, I&#8217;m going to stick around the house and perform serious Organizing of Stuff. Not just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2012\/09\/17\/time-to-check-the-preps\/\" target=\"_blank\">preparedness stuff<\/a>, as I wrote about the other day. But stuff-stuff. After two years of constant construction chaos, I want everything <i>finally<\/i> neat and in its place for the cabin-fever months ahead.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll also be working with a yard guy to take down old fencing, remove a nasty-looking tree, and lay the groundwork for as large a veggie, chicken, and (maybe) bee area as my tiny property will hold.<\/p>\n<p>But I might also go wild &#038; crazy and take Ava out to the ocean. There&#8217;s an interesting beach within day-trip distance, but I haven&#8217;t gone there since returning to the NorthWET. It&#8217;s about time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This coming week looks like a nice, long pause between rounds of deadlines. So I&#8217;m taking time off. I hesitate to do it because I have this terrible fear that all you lovely readers will stampede to somebody else&#8217;s blog if I miss more than a few days and never return. Yeah, I know better. If you&#8217;ve put up with me so far, I have faith you&#8217;ll put up with me a week from now. Besides, even in my absence, there will probably be conversations going on in the comment sections. And there are always Amazon links in need of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/21\/taking-time-off\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Taking time off<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-improvement","category-rural-and-small-town-living","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}