{"id":66114,"date":"2022-12-17T08:03:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T15:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=66114"},"modified":"2022-12-18T08:50:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T15:50:18","slug":"we-are-recovering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=66114","title":{"rendered":"We Are Recovering Today But Will Be Ready For This Evening!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Fact:\u00a0 Christmas trees usually grow for close to 15 years before they can be sold.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dang, we must be party animals as we didn&#8217;t get up until almost 7:00 AM, and Mary stayed comatose until 8:30 AM.\u00a0 \u00a0The funny part is that we had one glass of wine each last night; we were tired.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/Christmas\/Christmas2022\/2022-12-16-birthday\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Take a look at the party from the trusty iPhone!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We love our friend and my neighbor for 30 years, Vicky.\u00a0 Everyone else knows her, also!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_66115\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66115\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-66115\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2022-12-16-006-comics-650x488.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2022-12-16-006-comics-650x488.jpg 650w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2022-12-16-006-comics-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2022-12-16-006-comics-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2022-12-16-006-comics.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-66115\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fun Fun Fun<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We had our morning coffee and sat down to discuss the plans for the day.\u00a0 Mary has a new way of getting my attention.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66123\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pix-5147.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"482\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pix-5147.jpg 482w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pix-5147-132x150.jpg 132w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/>We finished cleaning up after the party and stayed close to the fire.\u00a0 When we were getting ready to go out for dinner with the Capps, I realized I still had my jammies on; I had NOT done that in decades!\u00a0 This retirement is fun!<\/p>\n<p>We talked to Colleen on the bat phone, and all is well on the east coast, albeit a little on the cool side.<\/p>\n<p>At 6:30 PM, we headed for Huntington Beach to meet the Capps at Vitorio&#8217;s Italian Restaurant.\u00a0 We sat in the piano bar and were entertained by a delightful piano player who could play anything; I challenged him with &#8220;Amazing Grace,&#8221; and not only did he play it, he gave me a history lesson in how it came to be!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_66116\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66116\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-66116\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2022-12-17-001-650x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2022-12-17-001-650x366.jpg 650w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2022-12-17-001-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2022-12-17-001-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2022-12-17-001.jpg 1360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-66116\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The restaurant has been in existence for 45 years!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We spent almost three hours chatting away!\u00a0 Bill and Mary are lovely folks we met through the Elks many years ago.<\/p>\n<p>We went VFR home and got ready for bed; I turned on the TV to watch a movie, and Mary was already crashed, so I removed her glasses and tucked her in, and I lasted another hour before the Sandman visited.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is Scrooge (A Christmas Carol) at Southcoast Repertory Theater.\u00a0 I am restarting a thirty-year tradition.\u00a0 We are going with a group of fourteen family and friends!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_66119\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66119\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-66119\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2022-12-18-001-650x567.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2022-12-18-001-650x567.jpg 650w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2022-12-18-001-150x131.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2022-12-18-001-768x670.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2022-12-18-001.jpg 1284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-66119\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary and I share our family and friends!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fact:\u00a0 Christmas trees usually grow for close to 15 years before they can be sold. Dang, we must be party animals as we didn&#8217;t get up until almost 7:00 AM, and Mary stayed comatose until 8:30 AM.\u00a0 \u00a0The funny part &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=66114\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[227,230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dining-out","category-working-around-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66114"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66125,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66114\/revisions\/66125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}