{"id":238,"date":"2004-03-26T10:27:42","date_gmt":"2004-03-26T10:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=238"},"modified":"2013-11-28T02:41:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:41:15","slug":"spring-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=238","title":{"rendered":"Spring is here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring has arrived in the Bluegrass. I know the calendar says it started almost a week ago, but that&#8217;s wrong. Sunday was one of the coldest days I&#8217;ve spent in the saddle in a long time.  Spring, my ass! Actual temperature wasn&#8217;t bad (40ish), but that 20-mph wind made me (and others) glad I&#8217;d switched my flask contents to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildturkeybourbon.com\/flock\/bottxt10.htm\" Target=\"Offsite\">Wild Turkey Kentucky Spirit<\/a>.  But, just a few short days later, spring is unquestionably here; a flat-out screaming coyote run in 65-degree weather on Wednesday was getting uncomfortably close to overheating an unclipped horse.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned before, aside from the general warmth, one pleasant indicator of spring is the blossoming of bare navels on campus, and the last few days have provided ample views.  On a slightly related topic, I had the pleasure of seeing a very nicely fitting t-shirt today that said &#8220;My boyfriend thinks I&#8217;m stunning&#8221;.  I thought her boyfriend must be a wise and lucky man; I could certainly agree with his appraisal and envy his luck.  Then I got a closer look at the letters somewhat obscured in the cleavage, and realized it didn&#8217;t say stunning; it said &#8220;My boyfriend thinks I&#8217;m studying&#8221;.  That produced a whirlwhind of thoughts, all of which were probably best left unsaid.<\/p>\n<p>\nSpring always brings a mix of emotions.  Mainly, I like it. I sometimes say that the older I get, the less tolerant I am of extreme weather, and it&#8217;s getting to the point where I&#8217;m only happy in April and September. I like having hours of daylight when I get home from work.  I like being able to take advantage of the daylight without sweltering. But it&#8217;s not all roses and navels.  It also means the end of hunt season, and a shortage of new West Wing episodes.  But overall, I guess I&#8217;ll take it.<\/p>\n<p>\nAs the weather and available daylight improve, I&#8217;m looking around at various maintenance tasks, and decided that anything requiring a truck might as well wait a couple of weeks until I can leave truck and trailer separated for a while. During hunt season, they stay hitched for weeks, even months, at a time.  With the end of hunting drastically curtailing Arthur&#8217;s social life, the truck can perform farm chores without needing to be hooked up again anytime soon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring has arrived in the Bluegrass. I know the calendar says it started almost a week ago, but that&#8217;s wrong. Sunday was one of the coldest days I&#8217;ve spent in the saddle in a long time. Spring, my ass! Actual temperature wasn&#8217;t bad (40ish), but that 20-mph wind made me (and others) glad I&#8217;d switched&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=238\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spring is here<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9mOtr-3Q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}