{"id":8685,"date":"2022-04-12T05:04:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T09:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=8685"},"modified":"2022-04-12T01:05:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T05:05:13","slug":"tues-apr-12-2022-lots-of-driving-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2022\/04\/12\/tues-apr-12-2022-lots-of-driving-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Tues. Apr. 12, 2022- lots of driving today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warmish, but maybe clearer than yesterday.\u00a0 Maybe not.\u00a0 One forecast has rain over us for the next two days at least. As usual, we&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>Spent the day doing indoor stuff.\u00a0 Had some banking in the morning, and early pickup for D2 in the afternoon, so that pretty much precluded getting out and doing anything that would take more than a single hour.\u00a0 The early rain meant I wasn&#8217;t going to work outside either.<\/p>\n<p>Today I&#8217;ve got to do most of this week&#8217;s pickups.\u00a0\u00a0 Since I&#8217;m going up to the BOL on Thursday, I&#8217;ll get the stuff that is up that way then, but I have to get the rest before that.\u00a0 And I&#8217;ve got to sort and box a few bins worth of stuff to drop off at one auctioneer today, so there is that as well.\u00a0\u00a0 It never rains but it pours.<\/p>\n<p>Add the shopping, and prep for the Easter weekend (not going to the BOL, D2 wants another holiday here at home, and no septic system&#8230;)\u00a0 and it&#8217;s going to be a busy couple of days.<\/p>\n<p>And there must be some shopping.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve let my stocking levels of some staples drop because we&#8217;re eating less of them, and because we got busy and were out of town last week.\u00a0\u00a0 The result is fewer eggs in the house than at any time during the last two years.\u00a0 Milk is similarly low, and there are a couple of other things, like supplements, that I let run down.\u00a0 Of course I need EXTRA eggs now for Easter too.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Easter, I better get a lamb roast out of the freezer.<\/p>\n<p>No guests for Easter this year though.<\/p>\n<p>Life goes on, even with the threat of WWIII, during a worldwide pandemic, with runaway inflation and the prospect of famine on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>Preps smooth out the ups and downs, and provide a great deal of comfort.\u00a0 When they run low, I get extra nervous though, so there is balance in the world \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Go out and stock up.\u00a0\u00a0 There may come a day when &#8220;Prepping, it&#8217;s what&#8217;s for dinner&#8221; saves the day.<\/p>\n<p>Stack it up.<\/p>\n<p>n<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warmish, but maybe clearer than yesterday.\u00a0 Maybe not.\u00a0 One forecast has rain over us for the next two days at least. As usual, we&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>Spent the day doing indoor stuff.\u00a0 Had some banking in the morning, and early pickup for D2 in the afternoon, so that pretty much precluded getting out and doing anything that would take more than a single hour.\u00a0 The early rain meant I wasn&#8217;t going to work outside either.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2022\/04\/12\/tues-apr-12-2022-lots-of-driving-today\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Tues. Apr. 12, 2022- lots of driving today &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":[83,81,96,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-and-fall","category-ebay","category-lakehouse","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8685","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=8685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8686,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8685\/revisions\/8686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}