{"id":185,"date":"2019-03-01T12:20:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T19:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/?p=185"},"modified":"2019-04-18T19:41:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T02:41:35","slug":"these-are-a-few-of-my-favorite-things-wk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/01\/these-are-a-few-of-my-favorite-things-wk\/","title":{"rendered":"These are a few of my favorite things (wk9)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week has been the first warm and<\/del> sunny days we’ve had in a while. The break is needed as this “El Nino” year is somewhat crazy. I honestly don’t care if it is climate change or something else. It’s definitely different.<\/p>\n

Here are a few of my favorites right now:<\/p>\n

What I added this week:<\/strong><\/p>\n

A recommendation from my Peanut is an app called “Workout for Women<\/a>” I’ve used it for most of this week and the workouts are free (with some non-invasive ads), it connected to Apple Health automatically, and is very easy to use. There are not always step-by-step instructions but it is straightforward enough that the exercises are easy to follow.<\/p>\n

What I am listening to:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Spotify playlist for Umbrella Academy. A crazy mix of music from the 60s to the 80s, and quite a fun selection of Electro.<\/p>\n

What I am reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n

All My Love, Detrick<\/a>\u00a0by Roberta Kagan – a book written about the world and how it affects two families of different religions during the Holocaust.<\/p>\n

What I’m working on:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Perfecting homemade yogurt <\/a>in the new gas oven. Something I’ve wanted to do since started planning the remodel. I have made it two times so far and am quite happy with the results, even a bit more so when I drain it into Greek style. Thick, creamy and luscious, and I’m using the extra whey to acidify the garden for some camellias and hydrangeas. This is apparently a hotly debated technique, so we shall see if it helps or hinders. I am using the hydrangeas as the test bed as they actually change color when the soil is acidic.<\/a><\/p>\n

I hope to be able to write a post about all this after just a couple more attempts.<\/p>\n

The quote that sums it up for me in the now:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.” — who knows<\/a><\/p>\n

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This week has been the first warm and sunny days we’ve had in a while. The break is needed as this “El Nino” year is somewhat crazy. I honestly don’t care if it is climate change or something else. It’s definitely different. Here are a few of my favorites right now: What I added this … Continue reading “These are a few of my favorite things (wk9)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,23,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking","category-favorite-things","category-garden"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9fbjV-2Z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}