{"id":116,"date":"2010-04-13T18:15:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T22:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/?p=116"},"modified":"2010-04-13T18:37:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T22:37:00","slug":"the-onset-of-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/2010\/04\/13\/the-onset-of-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Onset of Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good things are happening, leading us to summer.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The birds are back making nests, and I had to fill the bird feeder for the first time this year.\u00a0 It was still full when I left last week for Philly.<\/li>\n<li>The Tigers are 6-2, hitting well, with good relief pitching.\u00a0 Their only weak spot so far this year seems to be their starting pitching, which is supposed to be their greatest strength.\u00a0 It should come around.<\/li>\n<li>The Red Wings start their playoff series tomorrow, and were on a hot streak to end the regular season.<\/li>\n<li>The Pistons&#8217; season is over tomorrow, which usually happens in June.\u00a0 So they&#8217;re a bit early this year.\u00a0 That&#8217;s OK, we have other things going.<\/li>\n<li>Tax season is over Thursday.\u00a0 That&#8217;s GREAT &#8211; Denise will be happier.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But the biggest indicator that summer is on the way quickly is that the boat lift and dock went in today.\u00a0 If the weather is good, we may even uncrate the boat and get it in this weekend.\u00a0 I wanted to get a picture of the guys putting them in, but they were too fast for me.\u00a0 The water was REALLY COLD.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Our-dock.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-117\" title=\"Our dock\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Our-dock.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Our-dock.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Our-dock.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Our-dock.jpg?resize=150%2C112&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Our-dock.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Dads-dock.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-118\" title=\"Dads dock\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Dads-dock.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Dads-dock.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Dads-dock.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Dads-dock.jpg?resize=150%2C112&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Dads-dock.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good things are happening, leading us to summer. The birds are back making nests, and I had to fill the bird feeder for the first time this year.\u00a0 It was still full when I left last week for Philly. The Tigers are 6-2, hitting well, with good relief pitching.\u00a0 Their only weak spot so far&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/2010\/04\/13\/the-onset-of-summer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read <\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[67,68,66],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-watching-ice-melt","tag-boats","tag-lake-toys","tag-summer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1MnZf-1S","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}