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Yesterday, the temperature rose a degree or two above freezing, so a little bit of snow melted, and some of the ice in driveways, but then at night it was quite slick again.\u00a0 <\/span>This morning is bright and clear, but still well below freezing. \u00a0<\/span>There is no school today as it is end of term.\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019m happy to be \u201coff.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The year is shaping up with commitments to classes to keep our teaching licenses, plans for the garden and house projects, and a wedding we plan to attend in the fall.\u00a0 <\/span>Our grandchildren are getting taller and taller, and more and more accomplished in their pursuits.\u00a0 <\/span>We went to a 7th<\/sup> grade band concert in which one of them played, and were surprised and pleased by its quality.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019d like to build a tree house in the backyard, but we\u2019ll see if Dear Husband is up to it this year.\u00a0 <\/span>Those boys are certainly big enough to help with this project, and it is for them. I\u2019m thinking of four posts sunk into the ground with concrete, four bracing pieces, perhaps diagonally set between each two posts, and four pieces connecting the four posts at the top.\u00a0 <\/span>Then the floor boards crossing and connecting to the long pieces.\u00a0 <\/span>Finally a railing around the edge, and a ladder to climb to it. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>All this surrounding a tall\u00a0 <\/span>Arbor Vita tree.\u00a0 <\/span>We can see the remains of an earlier tree house from long, long ago in that tree.\u00a0 <\/span>I can picture it easily, but I\u2019m not strong enough to build it myself.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n What are your thoughts today?\u00a0 <\/span>How is your year shaping up?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n As ever,\u00a0 <\/span>Julia<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday, the temperature rose a degree or two above freezing, so a little bit of snow melted, and some of the ice in driveways, but then at night it was quite slick again.\u00a0 This morning is bright and clear, but still well below freezing. \u00a0There is no school today as it is end of term.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}