{"id":40,"date":"2008-01-13T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-13T17:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"2008-01-13T17:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-13T17:18:00","slug":"winter-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":">Winter Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">EVERY DAY IS A STRUGGLE;<br \/>THEREFORE WE MUST BE KIND TO EACH OTHER.<br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><\/span><\/span><br \/><\/span><\/span>My son noticed this saying posted on the wall of the little hamburger place where we ate before the opera last week.  At the time I thought it was a little overstated.  Surely <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">every<\/span> day is not a struggle.  But now as this I begin to tire of winter so early in the season this year, I imagine that each day is going to be harder and longer on the slow road to April!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already got a pretty bad case of the winter blues and it&#8217;s only mid-January.  Yikes!  I&#8217;ve got a long way to go&#8230;. So, look at these colors!  The hot red and yellow, the soothing white and purple. \u00a0I think it was May last year when we visited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longwoodgardens.com\/\">Longwood Gardens.<\/a>  I&#8217;m trying to remember how it smelled on that glorious day in May.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/R4pJN9flcLI\/AAAAAAAAAPM\/8aW81Wvg6kI\/s1600-h\/DC+2006+013+Longwood+Gardens.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/R4pJN9flcLI\/AAAAAAAAAPM\/8aW81Wvg6kI\/s320\/DC+2006+013+Longwood+Gardens.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5155013227673120946\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/R4pJOtflcMI\/AAAAAAAAAPU\/2lQTX2Wpp38\/s1600-h\/DC+2006+009+Longwood+2.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/R4pJOtflcMI\/AAAAAAAAAPU\/2lQTX2Wpp38\/s320\/DC+2006+009+Longwood+2.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5155013240558022850\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now would be a good time for spinning.  I&#8217;ve got a rather imposing project going on my spinning wheel, something I admit I&#8217;m avoiding right now.  But my lovely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-wheel-thing.com\/products\/Spindles\/Spindlewood.html\">Steve<\/a> spindle might be just the thing to cheer me!  The fiber I haven&#8217;t finished spinning is a combination of merino and silk.  It&#8217;s a very pretty grey\/green with white silk streaks.  And the finished yarn would make a wonderful lace shawl.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/R4pJcNflcOI\/AAAAAAAAAPk\/VtEIY6iBbi0\/s1600-h\/Steve+spindle+005.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/R4pJcNflcOI\/AAAAAAAAAPk\/VtEIY6iBbi0\/s320\/Steve+spindle+005.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5155013472486256866\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have borrowed my son&#8217;s monitor for the past couple of weeks since mine died.  He is going to pack his up and take it back to school today, so I will be visually impaired until mine returns from being fixed.  So&#8230;..I won&#8217;t be here, and hopefully I&#8217;ll be spinning&#8230;.<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/><\/span><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/R4pIWNflcKI\/AAAAAAAAAPE\/iu8jdZ_cyVw\/s1600-h\/Steve+spindle+002.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/R4pIWNflcKI\/AAAAAAAAAPE\/iu8jdZ_cyVw\/s320\/Steve+spindle+002.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5155012269895413922\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>>EVERY DAY IS A STRUGGLE;THEREFORE WE MUST BE KIND TO EACH OTHER. My son noticed this saying posted on the wall of the little hamburger place where we ate before the opera last week. At the time I thought it was a little overstated. Surely every day is not a struggle. But now as this [&hellip;]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fine-craft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}