{"id":313,"date":"2016-08-01T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/01\/a-walk-by-river\/"},"modified":"2020-10-28T02:41:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T02:41:31","slug":"a-walk-by-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/01\/a-walk-by-river\/","title":{"rendered":"A Walk By The River"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It has been hot, the kind of hot where you step outside and it feels like you are stepping into a steam bath. \u00a0The kind of hot where iced tea and ice cream seem like necessary adjuncts to everyday life. \u00a0The kind of hot where pools are not refreshing because the water has warmed up so much. \u00a0The kind of hot where you are grumpy for a large majority of the time. \u00a0Just me? \u00a0I hope not.<\/p>\n

I hate heat.<\/p>\n

My husband, in a bid to save me and my family from my grumpiness, suggested I take my camera up to the river and ignore the world for a while. \u00a0He said he would stay home with the kids. \u00a0I am going to assume that was pure kindness and not a conspiracy to give everyone a break from my bad attitude. \u00a0Either way, it worked. \u00a0I puttered along the river trail at the speed of glacier ice, took a few photographs, and finally remembered that the great outdoors can be pleasant even if you are dripping with sweat.<\/p>\n

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There were almost no people on the trail. \u00a0Maybe they were all discouraged by the relentless heat. \u00a0It made for a pleasant time for me. \u00a0It was so quiet that all the birds and small animals just went about their business and ignored me.<\/p>\n

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We have had so little rain that everything looks a little faded and dusty. \u00a0I actually think it is a bit unfair that we have had no rain and yet the dew point has been so very high. \u00a0If we aren’t going to get rain can’t we at least have dry heat? I can cope better with that. \u00a0Hmmm, I feel the bad attitude creeping back in. \u00a0The wildflowers still look pretty though.<\/p>\n

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I returned home as a kinder, gentler, if slightly over-heated person. I managed to maintain that better attitude through a stop at the grocery store, the cooking of dinner, and the cleaning of the kitchen. \u00a0Sometimes we just need a bit of time to ourselves to potter along at the speed of glacier ice and appreciate the little things.<\/p>\n

What do you do when you need a bit of a break?<\/p>\n

Do you hate the heat too? \u00a0And tell me, why is it socially acceptable to complain about winter and the cold but as soon as you say you hate hot weather people look at you as if you said you hated puppies and kittens?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It has been hot, the kind of hot where you step outside and it feels like you are stepping into a steam bath. \u00a0The kind of hot where iced tea and ice cream seem like necessary adjuncts to everyday life. \u00a0The kind of hot where pools are not refreshing because the water has warmed up so much. \u00a0The kind of hot where you are grumpy for a large majority of the time. \u00a0Just me? \u00a0I hope not. I hate heat. My husband, in a bid to save me and my family from my grumpiness, suggested I take my camera up to the river and ignore the world for a while. \u00a0He said he would stay home with the kids. \u00a0I am going to assume that was pure kindness and not a conspiracy to give everyone a break from my bad attitude. \u00a0Either way, it worked. \u00a0I puttered along the river trail at the speed of glacier ice, took a few photographs, and finally remembered that the great outdoors can be pleasant even if you are dripping with sweat. There were almost no people on the trail. \u00a0Maybe they were all discouraged by the relentless heat. \u00a0It made for a pleasant time for me. \u00a0It was so quiet that all the birds and small animals just went about their business and ignored me. We have had so little rain that everything looks a little faded and dusty. \u00a0I actually think it is a bit unfair that we have had no rain and yet the dew point has been so very high. \u00a0If we aren’t going to get rain can’t we at least have dry heat? I can cope better with that. \u00a0Hmmm, I feel the bad attitude creeping back in. \u00a0The wildflowers still look pretty though. I returned home as a kinder, gentler, if slightly over-heated person. I managed to maintain that better attitude through a stop at the grocery store, the cooking of dinner, and the cleaning of the kitchen. \u00a0Sometimes we just need a bit of time to ourselves to potter along at the speed of glacier ice and appreciate the little things. What do you do when you need a bit of a break? Do you hate the heat too? \u00a0And tell me, why is it socially acceptable to complain about winter and the cold but as soon as you say you hate hot weather people look at you as if you said you hated puppies and kittens?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2811,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/2811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}