{"id":289,"date":"2009-09-27T13:36:02","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T18:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/?p=289"},"modified":"2020-01-03T17:29:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T22:29:53","slug":"289","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/?p=289","title":{"rendered":"End of september"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have not written anything in a while. I have been busy with the new house&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It still does not feel like\u00a0 my home. The sounds, the smells, the look and feel\u00a0 are not mine. Sorting through a long wish list has been sobering: everything costs more than you would think. Choosing paint colours is a challenge. Those tiny paint chips hardly give you an idea of what an entire room will look like. Right now everything is base coat white which feels very &#8220;lab like&#8221;. Hopefully this week colours should make an appearance&#8230;and will\u00a0 be tolerable. When everything is said and done I think it is a roll of the dice&#8230;and if it is horrible&#8230;you just start over.<\/p>\n<p>As there is no furniture yet, I have spent a lot of time looking out the windows&#8230;besides lots of neighbours&#8217; windows looking back there is a shrub with mysterious fruit that glisten in the afternoon sun&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/fruits.jpg\" title=\"fruits.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/fruits.jpg\" alt=\"fruits.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Up at the cabin I have finally given up on the puzzle I started months ago. It is a different version of\u00a0 Arcimboldo&#8217;s Fruit Face Man which I had put on the cover of my cookbook. This is the first puzzle I have been unable to finish&#8230;.but there just is too many black pieces. I am disappointed in myself but it was a relief to put the pieces away, and not have them in my face as a constant reminder of my inabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Moving on means finishing some things and, sometimes,\u00a0 just giving up on others&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/puzzle.jpg\" title=\"puzzle.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/puzzle.jpg\" alt=\"puzzle.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have not written anything in a while. I have been busy with the new house&#8230; It still does not feel like\u00a0 my home. The sounds, the smells, the look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5073,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/5073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}