{"id":12171,"date":"2012-11-21T02:18:05","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T09:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=12171"},"modified":"2012-11-21T02:18:05","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T09:18:05","slug":"one-more-wish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/21\/one-more-wish\/","title":{"rendered":"One more wish &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I could make one more Christmas wish, it would be that when you buy from my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/registry\/wishlist\/2SOJZIOIMIUZ5\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon wish list<\/a>, you add a note to identify yourself and (even better) give me a way to contact you.<\/p>\n<p>Wonderful gifts have begun arriving, but some senders aren&#8217;t outing themselves. Or I have a name but no contact info.  <\/p>\n<p>So to all I&#8217;ve been able to thank personally and all I may never know &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For the two-disc set of <i>Hunger Games<\/i> DVDs &#8230; thank you, Mr. or Ms Anonymous. (I watched the movie the other day and it was even better than in the theater.)\n<li>For delicious, fabulous California dried apricots, thank you, SC.\n<li>For <i>more<\/i> delicious, fabulous California dried apricots, and the book <i>Northwest Foraging<\/i>, thank you, MJ.\n<li>For security-enhancing, survival-packed, non-GMO garden seeds, thank you, NC!\n<li>For the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2012\/11\/20\/of-apples-and-storms\/#comment-22088\" target=\"_blank\">really-seriously-desperately needed<\/a> Victorio food strainer, thank you, K.\n<li>And thank you, Mystery Gifter, for the equally desperately needed apple corer-peeler-slicer. I am truly set to tackle those cider apples now.\n<li>Though there was no name attached, I <i>think<\/i> I know who deserves thanks for the giant &#8212; and completely unexpected &#8212; bucket o&#8217; tennis balls. Funny thing; I didn&#8217;t have that on my wish list. So it appears that Ava (who, after all, is half border collie and therefore unusually smart for a dog) has managed to get her paws on a computer and create an Amazon wish list of her own.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well, Ava will have to wait for Christmas to play with her new toys. But a couple of those other things are going to be put to work <i>today<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>And for everybody whose gifts are still on the way, keeping me as excited as a kid on Christmas Eve &#8230; thank you now and I hope I get to thank you more personally later.<\/p>\n<p>If any of you Secret Santas want to reveal yourselves, I&#8217;ll be happy to hear from you in the comment section. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I could make one more Christmas wish, it would be that when you buy from my Amazon wish list, you add a note to identify yourself and (even better) give me a way to contact you. Wonderful gifts have begun arriving, but some senders aren&#8217;t outing themselves. Or I have a name but no contact info. So to all I&#8217;ve been able to thank personally and all I may never know &#8230; For the two-disc set of Hunger Games DVDs &#8230; thank you, Mr. or Ms Anonymous. (I watched the movie the other day and it was even better&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/21\/one-more-wish\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One more wish &#8230;<\/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":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12171","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=12171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}