{"id":2104,"date":"2009-07-30T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=2104"},"modified":"2009-07-30T11:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T15:10:00","slug":"eggplants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=2104","title":{"rendered":"Eggplants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more Bicycling, skating, gardening.--><\/p>\n<p>The cycling lessons proceed apace.  Yesterday I was able to let go of Em&#8217;s seat for microseconds at a time.<\/p>\n<p><b>Me: <\/b> &#8220;Can I tell you a secret?&#8221;<br \/>\n<i><b>Em: <\/b> &#8220;Yeah, what?&#8221;<\/i><br \/>\n<b>Me: <\/b> &#8220;I let go of your seat, just for a second.  You were doing it by yourself for a second there!&#8221;<br \/>\n<i><b>Em, appalled:<\/b>  &#8220;Don&#8217;t let go!!&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I thought she might be proud, but she was just horrified.  You could see the process &#8211; &#8220;Mom, why would you do that when I <b>expressly<\/b> told you not to let me go?&#8221;  Oh well.  Anyway, she&#8217;s improving, and we&#8217;re keeping at it.<\/p>\n<p>Today we&#8217;re ice skating.  This is the second time we&#8217;ve done this.  She&#8217;s really latched on to skating, which makes me wish we&#8217;d done it earlier in the season.  But that&#8217;s okay, the rinks will still be there.  If she keeps wanting to skate, we can look into inline skates for her, as well as maybe a walkie talkie, just in case we lose contact while she&#8217;s rolling around.<\/p>\n<p>D&#038;D did take place on Tuesday, with the usual entertaining results.  I didn&#8217;t injure any of my party members, probably because I was, oh, what&#8217;s the word&#8230; DEAD.  However, the party really picked up the slack in that regard.  Kudos, guys!  I&#8217;ll post an update when I get a little free time.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/93468786@N00\/3771590475\/\" title=\"eggplant by emisanboo, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2463\/3771590475_1350a39997_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"eggplant\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"right\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nWe have about a dozen green tomatoes in the garden right now.  We had a couple that were just about perfectly ripe, but opted to leave them on the vine another day.  Then some creature decided to take a bite out of about six different tomatoes.  It couldn&#8217;t just eat all of one, no, it had to ruin the lot.  Thanks, critters.<\/p>\n<p>On the up side, eggplants Bert and Ernie here were ready to come off the vine.  My husband is going to make <a href=\"http:\/\/allrecipes.com\/Recipe\/Eggplant-Sandwiches\/Detail.aspx\" target=\"blank\">eggplant and tomato sandwiches<\/a> tonight.  Because of the aforementioned varmints I&#8217;ll have to get a tomato from the store, but we have massive amounts of fresh basil leaves from the garden, so it&#8217;ll still be garden fresh.<\/p>\n<p>Time to do a little homework &#8211; the school sent home a summer workbook &#8211; and then get ready to go skating.  Hope you have just as great a day!<br \/>\n<br clear=all><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[87],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}