{"id":3,"date":"2009-07-21T14:27:58","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T18:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/?p=3"},"modified":"2009-07-21T23:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T03:01:00","slug":"preparing-for-take-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/?p=3","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for Take-Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4\" title=\"The carrot people\" src=\"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/DSC08846-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"My mom and stepdad in Vancouver with a harvest of carrots. The ones on the right are ball carrots and can be grown in shallow boxes. (Check out the book: Square Foot Gardening)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/DSC08846-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/DSC08846.jpg 639w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_4\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 310px;\">\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">My mom and stepdad in Vancouver with a harvest of carrots. The ones on the right are ball carrots and can be grown in shallow boxes. (Check out the book: Square Foot Gardening)<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Futura; color: #040404;\">\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal Futura; margin: 0px;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Suddenly it seems real. We&#8217;re leaving in ten days for our big trip. Here in Vancouver Morgane and I have had our own beds, but soon we&#8217;ll be truly on the road.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal Futura; margin: 0px;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Futura; color: #040404;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Futura; color: #040404;\">\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal Futura; margin: 0px;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">It scares me a little. People keep telling us that we&#8217;re brave. Now I think maybe they&#8217;re right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Futura; color: #040404;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Futura; color: #040404;\">\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal Futura; margin: 0px;\">\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal Futura; margin: 0px;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">But when I talk to people who&#8217;ve been on a long trip, their eyes light up and they look so happy for us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Futura; color: #040404;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Futura; color: #040404;\">\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal Futura; margin: 0px;\">\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal Futura; margin: 0px;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Anyway, I&#8217;m still in Vancouver and promised to take M to Lonsdale Quay. She can play in the colourful balls while I read. It&#8217;s ANOTHER beautiful, sunny day and I don&#8217;t even care anymore. How crazy is that?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mom and stepdad in Vancouver with a harvest of carrots. The ones on the right are ball carrots and can be grown in shallow boxes. (Check out the book: Square Foot Gardening) Suddenly it seems real. We&#8217;re leaving in ten days for our big trip. Here in Vancouver Morgane and I have had our &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/?p=3\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Preparing for Take-Off&#8221;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6,"href":"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghislaindemers.com\/ramblingthree\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}