{"id":7636,"date":"2021-03-17T18:08:52","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T23:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/?p=7636"},"modified":"2021-03-17T18:08:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T23:08:52","slug":"the-ides-of-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/17\/the-ides-of-march\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ides of March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week is the Ides of March, feared by Caesar, I guess, but not me.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday I took a picture of some heart ornaments in a tree that look kind of bruised, like how all of ours feel now.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/bruisedhearts2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"488\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/bruisedhearts2.jpg 488w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/bruisedhearts2-338x450.jpg 338w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/bruisedhearts2-113x150.jpg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Phil Lesh&#8217;s &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/JohnnyBirthday.mp3\">John&#8217;s birthdays<\/a>. Phil is 81. Phil&#8217;s kids and extended family band, that includes his two sons, Grahame &amp; Brian, who are about the same age as mine, John &amp; Al, made this totally cool video to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QxiGvmtkkhs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I watched the vid Tuesday morning, when winter had come back to Wisconsin &#8211; we got a bunch of wet snow starting on Monday afternoon &#8211; sitting in the dark, looking out the window, with the cat.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7639\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/inthedarkwithcat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"488\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/inthedarkwithcat.jpg 488w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/inthedarkwithcat-338x450.jpg 338w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/inthedarkwithcat-113x150.jpg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then I went for a walk, and bought a bag of Trader Schmoe&#8217;s almonds that I transferred to a jar (that had held the cherry pie filling for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/16\/round-food-for-pi-day\/\">Sunday&#8217;s pie<\/a>, that we got in September at Koepsel&#8217;s in Door County, instead of Seaquist, because they didn&#8217;t have any Trump signs, and Seaquist did) when I got home.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7638\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/traderschmoealmonds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"488\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/traderschmoealmonds.jpg 488w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/traderschmoealmonds-338x450.jpg 338w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/traderschmoealmonds-113x150.jpg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For breakfast, I had a handful of almonds and a bowl of oatmeal with half an apple cooked into it and a small sliver of pie to make the half even.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7637\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/evenhalfpie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"488\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/evenhalfpie.jpg 488w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/evenhalfpie-338x450.jpg 338w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/evenhalfpie-113x150.jpg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t finish Sunday&#8217;s PI Day post until Tuesday, and I had a few pictures leftover from Pi Day.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7603\" style=\"width: 498px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7603\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7603\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pidaycherrypiesecretsnack.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"488\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pidaycherrypiesecretsnack.jpg 488w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pidaycherrypiesecretsnack-338x450.jpg 338w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pidaycherrypiesecretsnack-113x150.jpg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7603\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Like this one, the cook&#8217;s secret snack &#8211; Christmas vegan mincemeat, dried fruit and lots of spices and booze to preserve it &#8211; spooned onto piecrust cookies &#8211; the trimmings from the pie, baked with cimmy sugar on top. They <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pidaycherrypieburnt.jpg\">burn easily<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week is the Ides of March, feared by Caesar, I guess, but not me. On Monday I took a picture of some heart ornaments in a tree that look kind of bruised, like how all of ours feel now. It&#8217;s Phil Lesh&#8217;s &amp; John&#8217;s birthdays. Phil is 81. Phil&#8217;s kids and extended family band, &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/17\/the-ides-of-march\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,78,37],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-ds83473gmail-com","4":"post-7636","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-blogpost","9":"post_tag-grateful-dead","10":"post_tag-pie","11":"post_tag-walking"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7642,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7636\/revisions\/7642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}