If that looks a bit mysterious, it’s not.\u00a0\u00a0 I’m 77 today on the 7th of March.\u00a0\u00a0 (OK, it’s now the 8th because I forgot to post this earlier.\u00a0 DUH.)\u00a0\u00a0 A notable birthday not because of the numbers, but because my mother died at age 77, and last year I realized I was getting twitchy about this year’s birthday.<\/p>\n
I feel much better about it now, despite that it was a mostly-cloudy day considerably colder than recently, and woke me up with a high wind and heavy (but very brief) rain sometime after midnight last night.<\/p>\n
Not a good day for a birthday ride, but tomorrow may be.\u00a0 The blustery wind for most of the day had the horses skittish and me uncomfortable…some trees are already putting out pollen and there’s dust as well to make my eyes sting.\u00a0\u00a0 I miss the combined birthday party that I used to share with friends whose birthdays were the same week as mine…people coming here, and we’d walk on the land and have barbecue, and so on.\u00a0 But I’ve enjoyed the peaceful rides out with Rags, and none of us wants to make anyone else sick.<\/p>\n
(And then I STILL didn’t manage to hit PUBLISH.\u00a0 It’s now a cold, cloudy, dreary March 8.\u00a0\u00a0 But it was a good birthday anyway!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If that looks a bit mysterious, it’s not.\u00a0\u00a0 I’m 77 today on the 7th of March.\u00a0\u00a0 (OK, it’s now the 8th because I forgot to post this earlier.\u00a0 DUH.)\u00a0\u00a0 A notable birthday not because of the numbers, but because my mother died at age 77, and last year I realized I was getting twitchy about Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-beyond-writing","category-uncategorized","tag-life-beyond-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1188,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions\/1188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}