{"id":3239,"date":"2019-07-08T14:46:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T18:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=3239"},"modified":"2019-07-08T14:47:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T18:47:38","slug":"first-sunday-in-july-our-life-is-full-of-leaves-etc-july-6-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=3239","title":{"rendered":"FIRST SUNDAY IN JULY: OUR LIFE IS FULL OF LEAVES…ETC. JULY 6, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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AHH! THE FIRST SUNDAY IN JULY.<\/div>\n

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(Of all the Sundays of the year\u202652 of them\u2026the first Sunday in July is the most dazzling to Marjorie and me.)<\/div>\n

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alan  skeoch<\/div>\n
July 7, 2019<\/div>\n

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So let\u2019s make a  game of it.  SEE IF YOU CAN FIND<\/div>\n

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1) Our farm attic  gothic window with stained glass and top hat boxes.  (easy\u2026first p;icture0<\/div>\n
2) Our front lawn in Toronto<\/div>\n
3) Our big swam with water lilies<\/div>\n
4) Our new crop of flax<\/div>\n
5) Our other family farm with stone silo<\/div>\n
6) Our wilderness trails<\/div>\n
7) Our trip through Limehouse\u2026cross RR bridge, up escarpment road<\/div>\n
8) Our peculiar collection of shapes stuffed in the old green house<\/div>\n
9) Our living room in the old  Freeman farm house<\/div>\n
10) Our effort to grow milk weed for the Monarch butterflies<\/div>\n
11) Our days of glory on the football field \u2026 yes, both Marjorie and i \u2026she was<\/div>\n
an SPS cheerleader but no picture<\/div>\n
12) Our stuffed porcupine (on a beam, high above the guy in plaid shirt)<\/div>\n
13) Our walnut trees<\/div>\n
14) Our water trough vegetable gardens<\/div>\n
15) Our favourite game on a board made by hand<\/div>\n
16)Our  version of \u201cThe Tangled Garden\u201d<\/div>\n
17) Our almost forgotten International W6 tractor<\/div>\n
18) Our abandoned  threshing machine hidden on a tree clad hill<\/div>\n
(once belonged to Angus McEchern on farm next to ours)<\/div>\n
19)  Our fanning mill, our pump organ, our wood wheeled wagon<\/div>\n
20) Our recently refurbished cream separator<\/div>\n
21) Our poppies that appeared without our knowledge but are welcome<\/div>\n
22) Our gravel clad bridge between the two big ponds<\/div>\n
23) Our old  three furrow drag plough <\/div>\n
24) Ourselves<\/div>\n
25) Our old farmhouse beside our ancient walnut tree<\/div>\n

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IF YOU CANNOT BE BOTHERED\u2026THEN JUST FLIP THROUGH THE PICS\u2026THEY ARE RELAXING.<\/div>\n

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alan and marjorie<\/div>\n

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AHH! THE FIRST SUNDAY IN JULY. (Of all the Sundays of the year\u202652 of them\u2026the first Sunday in July is the most dazzling to Marjorie and me.) alan  skeoch July 7, 2019 So let\u2019s make a  game of it.  SEE IF YOU CAN FIND 1) Our farm attic  gothic window with stained glass and top […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}