I’ve recently began a number posts with a long list of terms or phrases each of which represents something on my mind about which I feel like blogging. On the previous occasions this led me to actually cover the some of the subjects. Today I’m having a hard time conjuring up the dozens of posts I’ve recently neglected to write about. I certainly wanted to follow up the last post five days ago with an item from one of our school board committee meetings that fit right in. At the moment I can’t think what it was either. For better than a week I’ve been telling myself that what I really wanted was a vacation from Duluth and ISD 709. That wasn’t available to me so instead I took a mental vacation thus the absence of posts. <\/p>\n
I played on the hammock with my grandsons. I helped mulch our gardens. I cleared out old canes from my daughter’s raspberry patch. I started watching a couple new seasons of some mini series with my better half including the third season of the contemporary spy series The Americans<\/strong> (I’ll never think about packing a suitcase the same again) and Orange is the New Black<\/strong>. These stories took me well away from Duluth as did two books I’ve made a good start on. The first I’m reading on my own is a major new tome<\/a> on the 369th Infantry Division that my Grandfather fought with in WW I. The other is Wild Swans<\/strong><\/a> which I’ve been reading to Claudia. You would have to be a minority American to appreciate the insecurity that was China over the last century. (I know, I know, Buddy. That’s too broad a statement and there have been generations of white Americans that have suffered too.)<\/p>\n I’m not quite ready to end my mini vacation. Its soooo beautiful outside now and will be again tomorrow. A glass of wine on the patio reading to Claudia sounds about right. I’ve earned it. I spent two hours finishing my mulching this afternoon after putting in a thousand yards in the pool. Oh, we have another swimmer<\/a> who has announced an intention to run for the Duluth School Board today. He’s a competitive swimmer so I imagined myself swimming against him as I swam laps. It takes me ten minutes to swim 500 yards so I doubt I’d be much competition for him.<\/p>\n I’d be remiss not to write about the offerings of Mark Myles and Art Johnston<\/a> in Saturday’s Budgeteer relating to Rep. Simonson’s column on the Edison Schools or today’s front page story<\/a> about the IRRRB and Iron Range School Superintendents. (I’ve commented before <\/a>on the IRRRB in my blog. One of its former heads was a campaign chair of mine……at least I think so. With 15 past runs for public office its a little hard to remember so many details.)<\/p>\n For now…….I’ll remain remiss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve recently began a number posts with a long list of terms or phrases each of which represents something on my mind about which…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-school-board","category-harrys-diary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13799"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13803,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13799\/revisions\/13803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}