{"id":1662,"date":"2018-08-31T07:34:30","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T14:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/?p=1662"},"modified":"2018-08-31T07:34:30","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T14:34:30","slug":"an-up-and-down-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/2018\/08\/31\/an-up-and-down-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"An Up and Down Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"\">It is late Thursday afternoon. I\u2019ve spent the day wrestling with the A-List. \u00a0<br class=\"\" \/><br class=\"\" \/>In the course of the last week or so we\u2019ve found a number of deceased animals on our property\u2014a dying rat (good riddance to him!) \u00a0Two days ago, Jojo came trotting up from the back yard carrying a dead squirrel half as big as she is. \u00a0This morning our property manager found a dying rabbit. \u00a0<br class=\"\" \/><br class=\"\" \/>I write murder mysteries. \u00a0Is it possible someone is tossing out poison? \u00a0Are Mary and Jojo at risk? \u00a0I tried contacting Game and Fish. \u00a0No response.<br class=\"\" \/><br class=\"\" \/>So today, when the dogs went out into the yard, I went along with them. \u00a0They disappeared into the brush at the back of the pond, and I went after them.<br class=\"\" \/><br class=\"\" \/>There are stairs in our backyard\u2014lots of them. \u00a0I always warn visitors not to look at the sights until they are done with the steps. \u00a0Did I bother to heed my own advice on this occasion? \u00a0\u00a0No, I did not. \u00a0I was busy looking for dogs in bushes. \u00a0I tripped on one step and landed with both knees on the next one up. <br class=\"\" \/><br class=\"\" \/>I\u2019ve been gradually regaining some range of movement in my right shoulder\u2014due in large measure to help from Dan Kritsonis, our personal trainer. \u00a0I\u2019ve also been blessed with some long distance coaching from one of my fans\u2014Doranne Long, a physical therapist from Grants Pass, Oregon, and the author of Your Body Book, <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/yourbodybook.com\/\">http:\/\/yourbodybook.com<\/a>.<br class=\"\" \/><br class=\"\" \/>Fortunately for me, I fell on my left side rather than my right, and I did no damage to my right wrist, arm, or hand, due to landing on the soft earth of a very recently dug mole hole. \u00a0(Obviously the moles are NOT being poisoned!)<br class=\"\" \/><br class=\"\" \/>Thanks again to Dan, I didn\u2019t have haul out my phone and call Bill to deliver those dreaded Baby Boomer words, \u201cI\u2019ve fallen and I can\u2019t get up.\u201d \u00a0Because I could get up and did get up. \u00a0I limped back inside and have been icing my knees ever since with one of them bruised just above the knee cap and the other just below.<br class=\"\" \/><br class=\"\" \/>So this is how my Thursday has been. \u00a0A few bumps in the in the road, but hey. \u00a0I\u2019m on the right side of the grass.<br class=\"\" \/><br class=\"\" \/>Have a good one.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is late Thursday afternoon. I\u2019ve spent the day wrestling with the A-List. \u00a0In the course of the last week or so we\u2019ve found a number of deceased animals on our property\u2014a dying rat (good riddance to him!) \u00a0Two days ago, Jojo came trotting up from the back yard carrying a dead squirrel half as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pets"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3nsBA-qO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1663,"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions\/1663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}