{"id":4406,"date":"2012-05-24T17:49:36","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T00:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettiesworld.com\/?p=4406"},"modified":"2017-06-28T23:01:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T06:01:10","slug":"designs-dinner-plans-and-departures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/?p=4406","title":{"rendered":"Designs, Dinner Plans, and Departures&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob is learning to use<a href=\"http:\/\/sketchup.google.com\/intl\/en\/product\/gsu.html\"> Google SketchUp<\/a>.\u00a0 He just started today, and seems to be catching on quickly &#8211; can&#8217;t wait to see what kinds of designs he produces.\u00a0 Check out these <a href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/gallery.sketchup\">galleries <\/a>&#8211; there&#8217;s an amazing amount of complexity for a freeware program!<\/p>\n<p>We are expecting a friend from the neighborhood to join us for a sub supper &#8211; hope she is able to make it, as she&#8217;s nearly an hour late already. However, the last time we got together I recall there were some issues with arrival times as well.\u00a0 It&#8217;s all good&#8230; we&#8217;re copacetic, we go with the flow.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow we leave for a much needed family weekend at the ranch.\u00a0 It will be glorious to be away together for three days and four nights &#8211; just us, just relaxing, walking, shooting pics, shooting cans, watching the sun set across the valley, the twinkling of the lights at the power plant, and the starry hosts of the milky way in the dark night sky.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adoptedjoy.com\/?attachment_id=4408\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4408\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4408\" title=\"MILKYWAY\" src=\"http:\/\/adoptedjoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/MILKYWAY.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/MILKYWAY.jpg 576w, https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/MILKYWAY-261x180.jpg 261w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a>Update:<\/p>\n<p>Woohoo! She made it!! \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 So good to see our friend.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob is learning to use Google SketchUp.\u00a0 He just started today, and seems to be catching on quickly &#8211; can&#8217;t wait to see what kinds of designs he produces.\u00a0 Check out these galleries &#8211; there&#8217;s an amazing amount of complexity for a freeware program! We are expecting a friend from the neighborhood to join us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,598,6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-netties-world","category-ranch","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4406"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4412,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4406\/revisions\/4412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}