{"id":3485,"date":"2017-07-28T08:13:06","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T12:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=3485"},"modified":"2017-07-28T08:13:06","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T12:13:06","slug":"friday-28-july-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2017\/07\/28\/friday-28-july-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday, 28 July 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>08:13 &#8211;<\/strong><\/span> It was 68.9F (20.5C) when I took Colin out at 0700, bright and sunny. Barbara is due back from Winston around lunch time, with the loot from her Costco run. Colin and I did have PB&#038;J sandwiches for dinner last night, although we were unable to find any wild women and parties, as usual.<\/p>\n<p>With Barbara away, Colin and I spent the evening re-watching classic movies that Barbara refuses to watch. First up was <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Thing_from_Another_World\">The Thing from Another World (1951)<\/a>, starring the delightful Margaret Sheridan, who alas died young. That movie gets my vote as the second-best movie of any genre that was made in the 1950&#8217;s. (The best, of course, was Invasion of the Body Snatchers.) Second up was <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tarantula_(film)\">Tarantula<\/a>, with Leo G. Carroll.<\/p>\n<p>Colin liked the first one better. Giant carnivorous vegetables don&#8217;t bother him, even though this one ate dogs, but he doesn&#8217;t like giant spiders that stomp on automobiles.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/us21roadmarket.org\/\">US21 Road Market<\/a>, AKA the 100-mile yard sale, starts today and runs through Sunday. Actually, it&#8217;s longer than 100 miles. It nominally runs from Harmony, North Carolina to Wytheville, Virginia, which is about 90 miles, but in reality it continues south of Harmony. There&#8217;ll be tents, tables, and stalls set up the full length of the road, probably several hundred of them, most in clusters.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Barbara and I bought a 30-year-old TroyBilt 7HP rototiller, made in the US back when TroyBilt was till a top-notch product. We spent $50 having the B&#038;S engine torn down and rebuilt, and it&#8217;s as good as new. This afternoon, we&#8217;ll probably head over to the nearest cluster and see what&#8217;s on offer. That&#8217;s within easy walking distance, in the parking lot across from Grace&#8217;s house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>08:13 &#8211; It was 68.9F (20.5C) when I took Colin out at 0700, bright and sunny. Barbara is due back from Winston around lunch time, with the loot from her Costco run. Colin and I did have PB&#038;J sandwiches for dinner last night, although we were unable to find any wild women and parties, as usual.<\/p>\n<p>With Barbara away, Colin and I spent the evening re-watching classic movies that Barbara refuses to watch.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2017\/07\/28\/friday-28-july-2017\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Friday, 28 July 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485","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=3485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}