{"id":1656,"date":"2012-05-01T08:48:15","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T08:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=1656"},"modified":"2012-05-02T02:25:37","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T02:25:37","slug":"long-time-no-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=1656","title":{"rendered":"Long Time, No Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, y’all, sorry for the unintended hiatus. \u00a0I didn’t blog for what felt like a week and it turned into a month, lickety-split. \u00a0The passage of time is scary, fast.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I hope that y’all are having a good Spring!<\/p>\n

Mine, so far, has been Spring Break (boys), Spring Break (me), Easter, IEPs, meetings, busy, busy, busy.<\/p>\n

I’ve been doing a little ruminating, too. \u00a0Those of you who know me in person know that my personality goes more toward the Red Riding Hood direction, skipping along with no thought of a Big Bad Wolf. \u00a0That is true — most of the time. \u00a0But, Spring is the time of planning for next year and so the ruminations have been rather fast and furious, lately. \u00a0I don’t know how the Chicken Littles among us do it…..just a little Chicken Little for me \u00a0and I’m done for. \u00a0So, back to Little Red Riding Hood….though, I am a little bit older and, hopefully, wiser than Little Red, so maybe I’ll pack a stun gun in my picnic basket and get back to skipping. \u00a0Do you hear me, ruminations? \u00a0I’m packing. \u00a0Be warned.<\/p>\n

Sounds like a plan to me.<\/p>\n

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Mama Susie and #3 and #4 at Cane Creek Nature Preserve<\/p><\/div>\n

This is some of what we did on Spring Break. \u00a0Can you believe that this gorgeous place is 10 miles from where my parents live? \u00a0North Alabama is beautiful and unexpected. \u00a0You drive down winding country roads, past some chicken houses, and several Baptist churches before going down a rutted road. \u00a0Then, you suddenly come upon 700 acres of pure, undisturbed gorgeousness and the nicest hosts you’ll ever meet. \u00a0There are beautiful caves, a canyon, a lovely creek with very chilly water and smooth stones for barefoot walking on, waterfalls, rare wildflowers, and lots of \u00a0hills for climbing.<\/p>\n

I can’t wait to go back….in the fall\/winter when the bugs are asleep — totally, completely asleep. \u00a0Usually I’m a big fan of bugs. \u00a0I find them very entertaining, captivating, really. \u00a0They don’t bother me in general, except for the little ticks. \u00a0Why? \u00a0Because little ticks look a lot like freckles…..which I have like, a million of. \u00a0So, it gets a little confusing for me. \u00a0Other than that, bugs don’t bother me. \u00a0For instance, I now have ants in my kitchen. \u00a0 They don’t seem to be the type to get into the sugar bowl or onto the mangos, so, you know, we’ll live in peace.<\/p>\n

Speaking of mangos, I had a lovely one today in a salad with some avocado.<\/p>\n

Speaking of avocado, I got 9 today at Aldi for 10 cents each.<\/p>\n

Speaking of Aldi, I love it. \u00a0Big time.<\/p>\n

Speaking of big time….I’m big time rambling now, so I’ll go.<\/p>\n

But not for a month again.<\/p>\n

Happy first day of May, y’all!<\/p>\n

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Well, y’all, sorry for the unintended hiatus. \u00a0I didn’t blog for what felt like a week and it turned into a month, lickety-split. \u00a0The passage of time is scary, fast. Anyway, I hope that y’all are having a good Spring! … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1663,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions\/1663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}