{"id":1886,"date":"2010-05-04T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T03:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/05\/04\/spring-is-sprung-the-grass-is-riz\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:40:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:40:23","slug":"spring-is-sprung-the-grass-is-riz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/05\/04\/spring-is-sprung-the-grass-is-riz\/","title":{"rendered":"SPRING IS SPRUNG, THE GRASS IS RIZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Star Wars Day! May the Fourth be with you! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>Spectacular cloudscapes, slanting sunshine, a sudden downpour of rain washed over Flyinge with a fleeting fat rainbow to top it off. The forsythias are so bright, they look like miniature suns. Cherry trees are blossoming: our little cherry is studded with white blooms up and down each branch; harbingers for a bumper crop, I hope! The bird cherry across the ditch has exploded like a stupendous slo-mo popcorn tree. Sparrows are nesting in one of the birdhouses on the side of the playhouse and pheasant calls ratchet through the evening air.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/206340_original.jpg\" width=500 border=0 height=375 title=\"Cherry blossoms\"  align=\"Middle\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/206743_original.jpg\" width=500 border=0 height=375 title=\"Spring sky\"  align=\"Middle\"><\/p>\n<p>The rice worked. Or the phone was better proof against a washing machine than I would ever have guessed. After a day and a half submerged in a bowl of rice, Anders reassembled the phone, plugged it in to charge and voila! It works.<\/p>\n<p>My to-do list at work is 3 pages long. My to-do list at home is much shorter and includes shopping (birthday present for Anders, pants for Martin, replacement soccer shoes for Karin), writing cards for people I&#8217;m thinking about, ordering flowers, and filing my US taxes. None of those are even written down. They&#8217;re just on mental post-it notes stuck haphazardly all over the surface of my brian. The actual <b>written<\/b> to-do list only has 4 items on it, and none of them are a priority.<\/p>\n<p><b>Things I&#8217;m Glad I Did<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>took a typing class in junior high<\/li>\n<li>agreed when Frida suggested I take desktop publishing classes<\/li>\n<li>met Anders<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Things I&#8217;m Looking Forward To<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>summer in the States and seeing old friends and relatives<\/li>\n<li>selling the Volvo and getting a new (to us) car<\/li>\n<li>Glee on Sundays<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>People Who Are Much on My Mind Right Now<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Becky<\/li>\n<li>Carol<\/li>\n<li>Debbie &#038; Ola<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And now, a random Karin photo:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/206276_original.jpg\" width=500 border=0 height=375 title=\"Karin in Red\"  align=\"Middle\"><\/p>\n<p><b>Bouquets of Bright Blossom Birthday Wishes to <a href=\"http:\/\/same_sky.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">same_sky<\/a>!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Star Wars Day! May the Fourth be with you! \ud83d\ude00 Spectacular cloudscapes, slanting sunshine, a sudden downpour of rain washed over Flyinge with a fleeting fat rainbow to top it off. The forsythias are so bright, they look like miniature suns. Cherry trees are blossoming: our little cherry is studded with white blooms up and down each branch; harbingers for a bumper crop, I hope! The bird cherry across the ditch has exploded like a stupendous slo-mo popcorn tree. Sparrows are nesting in one of the birdhouses on the side of the playhouse and pheasant calls ratchet through the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,3],"class_list":["post-1886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-obiterphotos","tag-wonderfulworld"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7003,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions\/7003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}