{"id":1250,"date":"2010-09-24T22:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:18:27","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:18:27","slug":"a-day-off-2-and-an-adoption-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1250","title":{"rendered":"A Day Off #2 and an Adoption Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I work a 9\/80 schedule. In other words I work 80 hours in 9 days over two weeks. So I get every other Friday off. I love it!!!! Sweetie and I generally spend it together and we spend it doing fun stuff.<\/p>\n<p>This Friday, after I took SuperPizzaBoy to school, we had breakfast and puttered around the grocery store for a little while. Then we loaded up the bicycles and headed off for the Arkansas River trails.<\/p>\n<p>The River Parks in Tulsa are beautiful. They are one of the great features of the city.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5020990559\/\" title=\"20100924_10 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/5020990559_41f007f9b8-225x300.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"20100924_10\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5020989317\/\" title=\"20100924_9 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/5020989317_c3a607980d-225x300.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"20100924_9\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a perfect day, warm, dry, sunny.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5020985215\/\" title=\"20100924_6 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/5020985215_f14c2fe505-225x300.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"20100924_6\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just love cranes, don&#8217;t you??? A new restaurant is being built over the river. It is going to be way cool when completed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5021590690\/\" title=\"20100924_5 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/5021590690_d1c7576a7a-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"20100924_5\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sights on the River.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5021587752\/\" title=\"20100924_3 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/5021587752_8bf365f1fc-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"20100924_3\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Old Route 66 marks the north end of the River Trails.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5020992881\/\" title=\"20100924_12 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/5020992881_a28c590227-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"20100924_12\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I always like to go by the &#8220;Bear Fountain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards we refueled on Diet Doctor Pepper, dropped the bikes off, picked up our Pomeranian, Rascal,  and went to pick SuperPizzaBoy up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5020995579\/\" title=\"20100924_14 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/5020995579_02627c35bd-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"20100924_14\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hey Bud, if you had a better day than we did, you had a great day!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5020996909\/\" title=\"20100924_15 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/5020996909_643a553814-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"20100924_15\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nope, we are not at the end yet. Sorry, I know that I need to get my story told in 5 seconds, but you have stuck around this long, stick around a little longer. I promised an Adoption Story and that is coming up!<\/p>\n<p>SPB is having his friend Nick over for a sleepover so we went to pick up Nick. I love picking up Nick, he and his family are very nice and they also have critters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5021607210\/\" title=\"20100924_18 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/5021607210_695d6ac9a8-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"20100924_18\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They also have dogs, cats, chickens, peacocks, and Guineafowl. I posted about the helmeted guineafowl <a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1258\">last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, today I got to talking to Nick&#8217;s Dad. He said one of the peacocks had laid some eggs but they never hatched so he want to a farm supply store and got some guinea eggs and substituted them for the peacock eggs.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the eggs hatched and the peacock acts like the mother of the guinea chicks and the chicks think the peacock is mom. It is hilarious. I got a little close to the chicks and Mom was hollering at me, she was not happy at all. Sorry about the blurry photo. It was the best I could do without totally stressing her out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5021004395\/\" title=\"20100924_22 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/5021004395_e988eef9af-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"20100924_22\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What do you like to do on your days off?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I work a 9\/80 schedule. In other words I work 80 hours in 9 days over two weeks. So I get every other Friday off. I love it!!!! Sweetie and I generally spend it together and we spend it doing fun stuff. This Friday, after I took SuperPizzaBoy to school, we had breakfast and puttered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,313,285],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","category-superpizzaboy","category-sweetie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}