{"id":1111,"date":"2022-02-21T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T19:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potlatchga.com\/?p=1111"},"modified":"2022-02-21T14:41:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T19:41:00","slug":"waiting-for-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/potlatchga.com\/?p=1111","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/potlatchga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1112\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/potlatchga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"image-png\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/potlatchga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/potlatchga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-45x45.png 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This has been an unusually cold winter here on St. Simons. It\u2019s out of character to see locals bundled up with stocking caps and sweaters this late in the season. Things have been made worse by the fact that the last several winters have been spring-like with warm and sunny weather. We still have the sun, but the warm seems to have deserted us for further south. Grumble, grumble.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone is waiting for paradise to return, thinking it must be just around the corner. Yeah, I know, we could be in upstate New York or Iowa, but we ain\u2019t and want to complain.<\/p>\n<p>This together with the sad state of our politics and international crises, has slowed my writing and turned my energies toward having fun. As a result I recently went out and bought an old jeep, something that was kind of on my bucket list. It\u2019s a 1985 CJ7 and it&#8217;s a beauty &#8211; got it from my stepson and his wife who got it from a neighbor who got it from someone else and so on. It\u2019s old and been around, but it\u2019s mine now. The odometer says it has 76,000 miles but there are probably another several hundred thousand before that. Right now It\u2019s in the shop where I suspect it will spend lots of time. I just had to do it!<\/p>\n<p>We also got involved in a cook-off with our Canadian friends. Officially known as the \u201cPasta Wars,\u201d it is now in its 5th iteration and going strong. At this point, I\u2019m really in over my head, but I\u2019m stumbling along against real gourmets way out of my class. More on this later.<\/p>\n<p>Keep trucking\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/potlatchga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-1.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1113\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/potlatchga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"image-1-png\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/potlatchga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/potlatchga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-1-45x45.png 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been an unusually cold winter here on St. Simons. It\u2019s out of character to see locals bundled up with stocking caps and sweaters this late in the season. Things have been made worse by the fact that the last several winters have been spring-like with warm and sunny weather. 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