{"id":3344,"date":"2017-04-30T08:53:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T12:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=3344"},"modified":"2017-04-30T08:55:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T12:55:00","slug":"sunday-30-april-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2017\/04\/30\/sunday-30-april-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday, 30 April 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">08:53 &#8211;<\/span> It was 64.5F\u00a0(18C) when I took Colin out at\u00a00645 this morning, sunny and calm. There were half a dozen cows up near the back fence. Colin and the cows just looked at each other. When I checked\u00a0the thermometer yesterday mid-afternoon, it was up to 82.2F (28C), the first time we&#8217;ve hit\u00a080F this year.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m closing out the books for April. Barring any more orders coming in today, we&#8217;ll finish April slightly above April of last year. YTD, we&#8217;re roughly 33% above last year&#8217;s numbers for kit units and revenue, and slightly above the 2015 YTD numbers. We&#8217;re still well behind the 2014 numbers, but even so we&#8217;ll have a pretty decent year if the current trend continues.<\/p>\n<p>We had barbecue chicken for dinner last night, using a can of Costco chicken and a pint of our homemade barbecue sauce. It tasted fine. As I commented to Barbara, the flavor of the sauce is strong enough that it doesn&#8217;t really matter what kind of meat we use with it. I&#8217;d even try barbecue diced-Spam if Barbara would let me get away with it. She&#8217;s not a big fan of Spam, although I have a couple of cases of it in our LTS pantry.<\/p>\n<p>We have a quiet day planned.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>08:53 &#8211; It was 64.5F\u00a0(18C) when I took Colin out at\u00a00645 this morning, sunny and calm. There were half a dozen cows up near the back fence. Colin and the cows just looked at each other. When I checked\u00a0the thermometer yesterday mid-afternoon, it was up to 82.2F (28C), the first time we&#8217;ve hit\u00a080F this year.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m closing out the books for April. Barring any more orders coming in today,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2017\/04\/30\/sunday-30-april-2017\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Sunday, 30 April 2017 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[39,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-science-kits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}