{"id":681,"date":"2007-02-24T22:19:58","date_gmt":"2007-02-25T05:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=681"},"modified":"2007-02-24T22:19:58","modified_gmt":"2007-02-25T05:19:58","slug":"a-good-day-and-a-delightful-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=681","title":{"rendered":"A Good Day and A Delightful Evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NASCAR\" id=\"image680\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/dsc02325a.jpg?w=604&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On our way home from Soda Springs we were stopped behind this SUV at the railroad tracks waiting for a train to pass. I noticed the bumper sticker &#8230; &#8220;Is it Sunday yet?&#8221; along with the license plate bracket which said the driver was from Montpelier, Idaho. A closer look at the sticker and I saw &#8220;NASCAR&#8221;. That&#8217;s the new religion in much of the US these days. My brother Perry and his wife Chris have gotten this fever as well. For at least the third year in a row, they&#8217;re headed next week to Las Vegas to a Nascar race. Hopefully this year he&#8217;ll take winter clothes with him! Last year they about froze&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The visit with dad and mother today was very nice. We got there about 11:30 and left to come back to Pocatello about 3:00. Dad was pretty perky this afternoon. Nina had made some cookies (three kinds: chocolate chip, molasseses, and Snickerdoodles) for him, so he was quite happy. Mother said he could have one &#8230; he managed to get two down before she put the cookies away. Dad has a growth on his neck that needs to come off as it&#8217;s starting to give him some pain. He&#8217;s meeting with the doctor on Monday to get everything set up. They&#8217;ll do the surgery in the operating room at the hospital, but he should be able to come home the same day.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight we had tickets to a Season of Note performance titled <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Samarabalouf\" href=\"http:\/\/theatreraymondkabbaz.com\/EventPageSamarabalouf.html\">Samarabalouf<\/a>. This was an absolutely delightful performance. I took some <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"video clip\" href=\"\/pics\/samarabalouf.wmv\">video<\/a> with my little Sony camera. It&#8217;s about two and a half minutes long and gives a taste of their music. We had a great time and would definitely go see this group again. They definitely had the whole crowd on their feet by the end of the concert and then they played a good ten-minute encore.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Well worth our time to have been there. A good day and a delightful evening for sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On our way home from Soda Springs we were stopped behind this SUV at the railroad tracks waiting for a train to pass. I noticed the bumper sticker &#8230; &#8220;Is it Sunday yet?&#8221; along with the license plate bracket which said the driver was from Montpelier, Idaho. A closer look at the sticker and I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=681\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Good Day and A Delightful Evening<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pnKxs-aZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}