{"id":209669,"date":"2014-10-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/?p=209669"},"modified":"2014-10-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T00:00:00","slug":"acorns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/?p=209669","title":{"rendered":"Acorns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was perfect in so many respects.\u00a0 It started off with a great night of sleep, attending our group at church.\u00a0 It was our congregation’s 25th anniversary.\u00a0 We spent an hour talking about these questions: 1) What brought you to this church?\u200b 2) What keeps you at this church?\u00a0 Great discussion.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jan and I then went home and I put on my walking shoes and we drove up Rockford where I walked 9.7 miles as part of the North Country Trail.\u00a0 I walked from Wabasis Lake to Edgerton, a town that no longer exists, just east of I-131.\u00a0 I saw what looked like a pair of white storks in a swamp.\u00a0 There was an abundance of Banded Woollybears on the road.\u00a0 They\u00a0tend to be plentiful in the autumn.\u00a0 It hibernates as larva and pupates in the Spring.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For some reason I walked passed a lot of Northern Red Oak (Quercus rubra) and picked up some acorns.\u00a0 They are eaten by turkey, blue jay, and ruffed grouse.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Jan had gone to a restaurant and had lunch.\u00a0 She brought me a Mellow Yellow and an hour later I was at the intersection of the White Pines Trail and Thirteen Mile.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the way to our monthly small\u00a0group (Four couples and growing friendship) we stopped at Robinette’s Apple Orchard and purchased some fudge.\u00a0 We had a dynamite discussion on what it is we do when we pray.\u00a0 Three pages of notes.\u00a0 Great stuff.\u00a0 We had a wonderful but simple meal and then went over to our daughter and celebrated our grandson’s 15th birthday.\u00a0 Finally, at 10:00 P.M. we got home and I watched one of my few tv shows, <\/span>The Good Wife<\/span>.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

I went to bed about an hour after Jan\u00a0and found her warming up my side.\u00a0 A day like this does not come every day combining the Spirit, friendship, nature, family, physical exercise, food, stimulating discussion…and acorns in my pocket.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was perfect in so many respects.\u00a0 It started off with a great night of sleep, attending our group at church.\u00a0 It was our congregation’s 25th anniversary.\u00a0 We spent an hour talking about these questions: 1) What brought you to this church?\u200b 2) What keeps you at this church?\u00a0 Great discussion. Jan and I then …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":209670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_block_theme_hide_title":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-209669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-founders-corner","tag-hiking","with-featured-image"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Acorns.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Acorns.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Lou Haveman","author_link":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/?author=5"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/209670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louhaveman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}