{"id":12443,"date":"2008-05-01T10:37:32","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T17:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/05\/01\/visitations-6.html"},"modified":"2008-05-01T10:37:32","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T17:37:32","slug":"visitations_6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/01\/visitations_6.html","title":{"rendered":"Visitations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mary, our dear friend from college, is in town. She was at the big museum convention downtown, so with that wrapping up yesterday we drove up and picked her up (and marveled at all the change down there &#8212; been probably 4-5 years since I was around the convention center and all), swung by <em>Le Central <\/em>for dinner, and headed back home.<\/p>\n<p>And, as has been noted, today it&#8217;s snowing.<\/p>\n<p>Not a lot of particular activities planned. Margie&#8217;s taking a few days off, and we have a Game Day planned on Saturday. I think the baseball game plans have been snowed out, but who knows what the ladyfolk are concocting at home.<\/p>\n<p>Just nice to have her out here. She&#8217;s not visited since Katherine&#8217;s baptism (!), and though we see her over the holidays and at KOA, it&#8217;s fun to have her on our own turf to chit-chat and catch up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary, our dear friend from college, is in town. 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