{"id":72,"date":"2006-08-14T11:27:37","date_gmt":"2006-08-14T15:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/2006\/08\/14\/love-that-vacation-stuff\/"},"modified":"2006-08-14T11:27:37","modified_gmt":"2006-08-14T15:27:37","slug":"love-that-vacation-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/2006\/08\/14\/love-that-vacation-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Love that vacation stuff!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a167'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As usual, we had a wonderful vacation last week!&nbsp; The time we spent in Maine was so amazingly relaxing!&nbsp; We did a trolley tour of Portland which was lots of fun (okay, except for going over the Casco Bay Bridge).&nbsp; I didn&#8217;t realize how big Portland is and we already started discussing what we&#8217;re going to do next year!&nbsp; Three cheers to Kathy for letting us use her place!<\/p>\n<p>We also got in two Sea Dogs games and President Bush (not &#8220;W&#8221;) and Barbara were there and he threw out the first pitch at the game Wednesday night.&nbsp; It was pretty exciting to have been so close to a President!<\/p>\n<p>We got back late Saturday morning and I immediately went to the couch and caught a nap.&nbsp; Sorry but I&#8217;m just not used to the late night stuff.&nbsp; Yeah, I took another one in the afternoon but I think I finally got caught up!<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, we started staining our deck (it&#8217;s 12&#8217;x24&#8242; so it&#8217;s going to take awhile).&nbsp; We&#8217;re actually using what they call a &#8220;toner&#8221; which is darker than a &#8220;clear&#8221; yet keeps the natural look &#8211; very nice!&nbsp; Another couple weeks and the landscaper will be there to tear out the side and back yard, grade and hydroseed &#8211; so exciting!&nbsp; I love this outdoor stuff!<\/p>\n<p>Frosty and Shadow are continuing to get along wonderfully!&nbsp; I have to give a three cheers to Carol and her two youngest boys for taking such good care of them while we were gone.&nbsp; Not only did they go and feed them every morning but they would go back in the afternoon to play with them, too!&nbsp; Carol even admitted that she played the &#8220;chase the shadow&#8221; game with Frosty (so named prior to Shadow&#8217;s arrival!).&nbsp; I know how happy that made them because we didn&#8217;t even get a little bit of the cold shoulder from them when we returned!<\/p>\n<p>So, that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been up to.&nbsp; How about you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As usual, we had a wonderful vacation last week!&nbsp; The time we spent in Maine was so amazingly relaxing!&nbsp; We did a trolley tour of Portland which was lots of fun (okay, except for going over the Casco Bay Bridge).&nbsp; I didn&#8217;t realize how big Portland is and we already started discussing what we&#8217;re going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":361,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[677],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curtincallstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}