{"id":2606,"date":"2011-05-03T11:51:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T17:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2606"},"modified":"2011-05-03T11:52:42","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T17:52:42","slug":"why-i-have-not-been-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2606","title":{"rendered":"Why I Have Not Been Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everything in my normal life stopped last Friday,<\/a> and it is just starting to get back to normal. A 560-acre forest fire is not like all the tornadoes down South\u2014for one thing, you can fight<\/em> a forest fire to some extent\u2014but it is a big disruption when it is close to your house\u2014within half a mile, in our case.<\/p>\n

After our evacuation order was canceled<\/a>, and M. and I were back home, we started feeling the desire to clean everything. Not that it was smoked up, the house just felt grubby and messy after a long winter.<\/p>\n

When I made my quick trip home on Saturday morning<\/a>, the power was off, the house cool and dark,\u00a0 shaded from the early morning sun by the ridge to the east. The previous morning’s dirty dishes were still on the counter, stuff was tossed around from our quick evacuation packing.<\/p>\n

And so I though, “As soon as I get back here permanently, assuming that I do, it’s time to start paying attention to the house, the garden, and the physical plane in general.”<\/p>\n

Of course, when we came home, it was snowing<\/a>, but we’ll take all the moisture that we can get.<\/p>\n

I do have some blog posts stored in my head and will be getting to them over the next three days. Then it’s festival time<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everything in my normal life stopped last Friday, and it is just starting to get back to normal. A 560-acre forest fire is not like all the tornadoes down South\u2014for one thing, you can fight a forest fire to some extent\u2014but it is a big disruption when it is close to your house\u2014within half a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,23],"class_list":["post-2606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blogging","tag-colorado"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-G2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":469,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=469","url_meta":{"origin":2606,"position":0},"title":"Back on trackM. and I\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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