{"id":1474,"date":"2011-02-04T18:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T02:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/04\/where-did-the-time-go-2\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T11:58:15","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T19:58:15","slug":"where-did-the-time-go-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/04\/where-did-the-time-go-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Where did the time go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Gosh, I hadn&#8217;t realized it had been so long since my last post! A couple of days after that one, though, I went to Phoenix for Quilting in the Desert, staying with a dear friend and her three dogs for almost a week. You may remember that I have a little cocker spaniel; however, what you don&#8217;t know is that I used to have Dobermans, so it&#8217;s not as though I&#8217;ve never been around large dogs. In fact, up until not too long ago, we had a big lab-chow mix! Phyl&#8217;s family includes a Golden Retriever and two black standard poodles. What is always a surprise to me about them is that they&#8217;re so light on their feet! I was used to big dogs having a certain amount of &#8220;heft&#8221; to them, but these poodles can jump on me, and I have absolutely no chance of being knocked over. (G)<g><\/g><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">As for Phyl and me, we stayed pretty busy during my stay. We each had a class to attend, and we went out to dinner a couple of times (YUM!) and to the theater (great play!) once. We did our own mini-shop-hop one day, updated some computer stuff for each of us, and did our own &#8220;class&#8221; on wool appliqu\u00e9 (Phyl was the instructor, and I was the student). Above all, we laughed and had a great time. \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IMG_0122.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"302\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IMG_0122-300x284.jpg?resize=320%2C302\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">I don&#8217;t know where my head was, but I completely forgot to take pictures of most of what we did. But I did take a picture of the three dogs waiting for their treat. I guess that tells you where my priorities were. \ud83d\ude09 <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gosh, I hadn&#8217;t realized it had been so long since my last post! A couple of days after that one, though, I went to Phoenix for Quilting in the Desert, staying with a dear friend and her three dogs for almost a week. You may remember that I have a little cocker spaniel; however, what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":788,"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":"","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":[303],"tags":[24,235,224],"class_list":{"0":"post-1474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-family","8":"tag-camp","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-travel","11":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IMG_0122.jpg?fit=640%2C605&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-nM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1267,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2014\/11\/24\/weekend-fun\/","url_meta":{"origin":1474,"position":0},"title":"Weekend fun","author":"Sandy","date":"November 24, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"My very good quilting buddy, Phyl, invited me to go with her to attend an event hosted by the Bernina Connection in Phoenix. 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