{"id":573889486,"date":"2016-07-11T23:41:26","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T04:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573889486"},"modified":"2017-02-28T16:55:49","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T22:55:49","slug":"we-built-stuff-but-i-didnt-take-pictures-of-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2016\/07\/11\/we-built-stuff-but-i-didnt-take-pictures-of-that\/","title":{"rendered":"We built stuff, but I didn&#8217;t take pictures of that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My folks came to town to see the new place this weekend. My step-father helped us build out our attic. We added about 100 square feet of storage space, which will be great for storing decorations and clothes and whatnot. Took us a part of one afternoon and, before long, we had the traditional ceremony of passing the first item, a pair of exterior Christmas trees, through the doorway and into a corner. <\/p>\n<p>We also took them sight-seeing, and lingered in places like this:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july16\/july19.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>For lunch on Sunday we went to Dat&#8217;s, a local Cajun-esque place. It is a delightful mixture of rundown and homey and the food is pretty good. The company is better. How often do <em>you<\/em> get to eat with Dean Martin? <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july16\/july20.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also this little cookie store in town, one of those things you probably couldn&#8217;t do anywhere but a college town. It is in an old house with uneven floors and a desperate need of dusting and a coat of paint. But! You can get cookies! Delicious, custom-ordered cookies. And they have a flowchart to help you out:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july16\/july21.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>What we ordered:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july16\/july22.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the folks were great. Lovely to have them visit. We made them to promise to come back when we knew more about the place ourselves, so we could give a proper tour. And, also, the next time they are here, we won&#8217;t build things. But my step-father loves to build things. <\/p>\n<p>The Yankee and I had a nice short little ride this evening. Around the curve and down the hill we go:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july16\/july23.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>There she is, ahead of me as always:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july16\/july24.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And this was right before we literally ran out of road. It became a strange ride, really. Usually you just go out and have a nice time and then come home. This time we got lost, the paved road turned into gravel. Another road turned into a closed road. Riding your bike isn&#8217;t usually frustrating, but it can be bemusing. And also, terribly attractive:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july16\/july25.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Allie stayed home while we were on our ride:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july16\/july26.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My folks came to town to see the new place this weekend. My step-father helped us build out our attic. We added about 100 square feet of storage space, which will be great for storing decorations and clothes and whatnot. Took us a part of one afternoon and, before long, we had the traditional ceremony [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,38,46,3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573889486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-family","category-food","category-monday","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573889486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573889486"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573889486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573889489,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573889486\/revisions\/573889489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573889486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573889486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573889486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}