{"id":3872,"date":"2016-02-21T17:01:54","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T22:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/?p=3872"},"modified":"2016-02-21T17:01:54","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T22:01:54","slug":"random-stuff-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/?p=3872","title":{"rendered":"Random Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying desperately trying to catch up on my blogging&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I had uploaded a lot of pictures in July and never done any of the blogging to go with them, so I&#8217;m trying to tackle those before I upload anything else (though to be fair, I&#8217;m not sure there&#8217;s anything I really want to talk about for a few months there).<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, here&#8217;s some pictures that don&#8217;t really go with anything else.<\/p>\n<p>I bought some fleece blankets at Kroger, one with owls on it, and I was going to use the blankets to make something for my Australian owl-loving friend&#8230;then I realized that I had no idea what I would make that wouldn&#8217;t take up more room in an expensive-to-mail package than enjoyment she would get out of it. \u00c2\u00a0I used the blankets and our old pillows to solve an ever-present problem in our house: cat toys batted under doors and the resultant whining cats.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/16627938908_b07e78fb9e_z.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3762\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3762\" src=\"https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/16627938908_b07e78fb9e_z.jpg\" alt=\"16627938908_b07e78fb9e_z\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/16627938908_b07e78fb9e_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/16627938908_b07e78fb9e_z-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brian and I got each other Zoo Pal animal sponsorships for Valentine&#8217;s Day &#8211; I got him an otter and he got me an octopus:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/16475919405_39b1fd0ba2_z.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3754\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3754\" src=\"https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/16475919405_39b1fd0ba2_z.jpg\" alt=\"16475919405_39b1fd0ba2_z\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/16475919405_39b1fd0ba2_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/16475919405_39b1fd0ba2_z-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One thing that&#8217;s sometimes nice about working nights is the sunrise:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/16300424654_9a6c61f60e_z.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3744\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3744\" src=\"https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/16300424654_9a6c61f60e_z.jpg\" alt=\"16300424654_9a6c61f60e_z\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/16300424654_9a6c61f60e_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/16300424654_9a6c61f60e_z-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, the same garbage that makes it so hard to send drivers out to make delivers is actually beautiful&#8230;Here&#8217;s some hoary frost. \u00c2\u00a0 It was very foggy and the fog was crystallizing on everything:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/16268764286_fe36cb4732_z.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3737\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3737\" src=\"https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/16268764286_fe36cb4732_z.jpg\" alt=\"HoarFrost\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/16268764286_fe36cb4732_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/16268764286_fe36cb4732_z-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At some point when it was still cold outside last winter, this happened:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/16289652239_40f3fb6a1d_z.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3739\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3739\" src=\"https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/16289652239_40f3fb6a1d_z.jpg\" alt=\"This was exciting\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/16289652239_40f3fb6a1d_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/16289652239_40f3fb6a1d_z-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying desperately trying to catch up on my blogging&#8230; I had uploaded a lot of pictures in July and never done any of the blogging to go with them, so I&#8217;m trying to tackle those before I upload anything &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/?p=3872\">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":[10,8,37,12,23,11,14,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cats-and-more-cats","category-domesticity","category-honeybear","category-nature","category-parentals","category-random-fun-things","category-stupid-stuff","category-valentines-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}