{"id":27357,"date":"2023-08-07T16:04:19","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T16:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=27357"},"modified":"2023-08-07T16:33:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T16:33:44","slug":"things-that-made-me-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=27357","title":{"rendered":"Things that made me smile!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This morning I was looking through old images on my computer and ran across some that made me smile, I hope you enjoy them too!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Above: \u00a0After years of traveling with Jack to do workshops across our great land, this is a common scene as we try to wrangle our luggage, camera gear and the projector in airports!<\/span><\/p>\n

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This one made me smile and brings a tear to my eye! \u00a0For years traveling to Colfax, Washington for the Palouse events, our favorite place to eat was the Top Notch, Pete and Candis Koerner ran a great little spot and he still has one of my best burgers in memory!!!! \u00a0Sadly, the Top Notch is now closed, leaving Colfax as a wasteland for food!<\/span><\/p>\n

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I found this little engraved stone and had to make a shot of it! \u00a0Never truer words were spoken!<\/span><\/p>\n

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In October Chester will be 5! \u00a0Here are a few early shots of him with family members! \u00a0He now weighs 85 lbs!<\/span><\/p>\n

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When Jack and I are in the field doing a workshop it is always a lot of laughs! \u00a0Our students seem to enjoy it and we are part time comedians! \u00a0This is at Nelson Ghost Town just south of Las Vegas!<\/span><\/p>\n

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This was at another ghost town, never really understood it, but couldn’t pass up the shot!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Finally, while walking in downtown Bar Harbor, Maine I saw this rain jacket with a hilarious proclamation, it is Waterproof Resistant! \u00a0Does that mean it resists being waterproof, well for $19.99 what do you expect!!!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hope you got a smile out of some of these, happy Monday!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Blessings,<\/span><\/p>\n

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the pilgrim<\/span><\/p>\n

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  This morning I was looking through old images on my computer and ran across some that made me smile, I hope you enjoy them too!   Above: \u00a0After years of traveling with Jack to do workshops across our great land, this is a common scene as we try to wrangle our luggage, camera gear […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27357"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27370,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27357\/revisions\/27370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}