{"id":12540,"date":"2026-02-17T03:09:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T08:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=12540"},"modified":"2026-02-17T02:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:17:12","slug":"tues-feb-17-2026-lets-get-this-show-on-the-toad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2026\/02\/17\/tues-feb-17-2026-lets-get-this-show-on-the-toad\/","title":{"rendered":"Tues. Feb. 17, 2026 &#8211; let&#8217;s get this show on the toad."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cool again, and clear for the next few days if the weather liars can be trusted. It was partly cloudy\/ mostly clear yesterday and very nice.   Low 70sF was the best it could do.  I&#8217;d like a bit more than that today, please.<\/p>\n<p>Lost the whole day yesterday.  Morning was more blood sugar monitor weirdness.  Then D2 had an appointment in the afternoon that I was pretty sure I&#8217;d have to take her to.  Because D1 wasn&#8217;t home yet.  So I had to stay close to home and I did in fact have to take her.<\/p>\n<p>W picked her up.  I made dinner, pork loin roast frozen in 2023, and it was delicious.  The sides were overdone because no one got home on time, but still tasty.  I did apple slices pan fried in bacon fat with bacon bits and brown sugar.  It&#8217;s a great way to use some apples with bruises or that are getting softer.  1\/2 inch thick seems to be just right.  Core before slicing.  The rings look very nice on a plate. I deglazed the pan with Jack Daniels, so they were &#8216;bacon bourbon pan fried apple slices&#8217; and they went very well with the pork.  Baked potatoes with butter and chopped chives from the garden finished the plate.<\/p>\n<p>Yum.<\/p>\n<p>I did cut my hair, so that was one chore done.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we&#8217;ll  try again to make some progress.  It could happen.<\/p>\n<p>Stack.<\/p>\n<p>nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cool again, and clear for the next few days if the weather liars can be trusted. It was partly cloudy\/ mostly clear yesterday and very nice.   Low 70sF was the best it could do.  I&#8217;d like a bit more than that today, please.<\/p>\n<p>Lost the whole day yesterday.  Morning was more blood sugar monitor weirdness.  Then D2 had an appointment in the afternoon that I was pretty sure I&#8217;d have to take her to.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2026\/02\/17\/tues-feb-17-2026-lets-get-this-show-on-the-toad\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Tues. Feb. 17, 2026 &#8211; let&#8217;s get this show on the toad. &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,83,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-decline-and-fall","category-march-to-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12541,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12540\/revisions\/12541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}