{"id":317,"date":"2007-06-11T10:51:56","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T10:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/?p=317"},"modified":"2007-06-11T10:52:38","modified_gmt":"2007-06-11T10:52:38","slug":"nothing-could-be-finer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"Nothing Could be Finer…"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Monday morning. <\/span>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m back in town after ten days away. <\/span>Work starts back up for me in less than an hour and a half. <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/o:p>Ah. <\/span>This is the life.<\/p>\n

You may be confused by this statement but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not.<\/p>\n

I love to take vacations. <\/span>I love seeing new places and being with friends. <\/span>I love meeting new people and experiencing new things. <\/span>I love traveling around our country. <\/span><\/p>\n

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But, like the song so melodically says \u00e2\u20ac\u0153nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> in the morning\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

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I had a reprieve from the heat while I was in NJ. <\/span>They were having a heat wave there some of the time I visited, but the humidity was so different than ours that you would never have known it was 90 degrees on one or two of those days we was there.<\/p>\n

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As we left Saturday morning at 5:30 a.m. (yes, I am a morning person!) to return to South Carolina<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> the temperatures were in the 50s. <\/span><\/p>\n

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By the time we hit the NC\/SC border it was 100 degrees.<\/p>\n

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However, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the only thing I did not miss about our dear State.<\/p>\n

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Now don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get me wrong. <\/span>I LOVED visiting with extremely hospitable friends \u00e2\u20ac\u201c new and old. <\/span>I thrilled at the horse races, Washington<\/st1:state>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Crossing, the quaint villages along the Delaware<\/st1:state><\/st1:place> and the shopping in NY City and the countryside were much different than here. <\/span>There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a Northern flair there that is unique unto itself\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

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But there were no grits, few places with REAL ice tea, no Southern hospitality and very few Southern drawl friends like I have here. <\/span>There were no cowboys\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6and the gun laws were so tight in NJ and the surrounding area that one couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even take a pistol for protection\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a whole other story. <\/span><\/p>\n

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So, all said and done, I am glad to be heading back to work and getting into a routine unique to my Southern heritage back here in good ole South Carolina\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6that is until I am on the road again shortly.<\/p>\n

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My wish for you today<\/strong> is that you have a chance to explore our country. <\/span>It will give you a better appreciation for the community, the county and the state you live in\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6where nothing could be finer.<\/p>\n

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~ Joellen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Monday morning. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m back in town after ten days away. Work starts back up for me in less than an hour and a half. Ah. This is the life. You may be confused by this statement but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,27,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-events","category-living-life-to-the-fullest","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}