{"id":3934,"date":"2016-01-19T20:07:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T20:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=3934"},"modified":"2016-01-19T20:07:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T20:07:13","slug":"celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=3934","title":{"rendered":"Celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Tuesday afternoon. \u00a0Bob and I are sitting in a Starbucks in Ft. Lauderdale while he downloads new charts for Cuba and updates his ‘Active Captain’ app. \u00a0I am looking through photos from 2015 and realizing how much we celebrated over the past 6 months. \u00a0It was a very celebratory year, and my 60th birthday (just a few days ago) finished up the family milestones as the new year begins.<\/p>\n

After Bob turned 60 in June (I was busy cooking and did not get any<\/em> photos), I had some wonderful old friends visit in July. \u00a0We’ve known each other for about 25 years, and we made plans to spend part of our weekend going to the NEWS (New England Weavers Seminar) conference in Northampton….. 4 women of a certain age going to a weaving conference! \u00a0It was awesome! Here we are at dinner in Middletown on our way back to my house.<\/p>\n

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Then came our older son’s wedding in August. \u00a0We almost never get photos of our two sons together. \u00a0It was a rare and wonderful moment.<\/p>\n

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Right before Thanksgiving, Bob threw me an early birthday party since it was going to be one of those once a decade birthdays, and I would not be able to see my friends and family when the actual birthday happened. \u00a0Here is chef Michael, just starting the hot hors doeuvres before dinner. \u00a0What a night!<\/p>\n

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A photo with one of my old friends and three of my new friends–all weavers!<\/p>\n

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Michael is about to cut the cake…<\/p>\n

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And my favorite pairing: \u00a0white wine and chocolate cake!<\/p>\n

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A few days before my real birthday last week, Bob and I had a marvelous dinner at Pistache in West Palm Beach. \u00a0This photo is all about the dinner: duck breast in cherry sauce with truffle polenta…and the harbor park in the background.<\/p>\n

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While we are waiting for the weather window to sail to the Bahamas, I’ve been slowly<\/em> honing my tatting skills. \u00a0I’m definitely improving…and now I’ve got enough tatting to go across the back of my green T-shirt and start going down one side of the front V-neck! \u00a0Only about a million more little rings and chains to go!<\/p>\n

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I worked on it a bit this morning before we came ashore.<\/p>\n

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It’s Tuesday afternoon. \u00a0Bob and I are sitting in a Starbucks in Ft. Lauderdale while he downloads new charts for Cuba and updates his ‘Active Captain’ app. \u00a0I am looking through photos from 2015 and realizing how much we celebrated over the past 6 months. \u00a0It was a very celebratory year, and my 60th birthday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-holiday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3934"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3954,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934\/revisions\/3954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}