{"id":55996,"date":"2023-10-08T21:58:22","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T21:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=55996"},"modified":"2023-10-08T21:58:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T21:58:22","slug":"fall-winter-beard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=55996","title":{"rendered":"Fall\/winter ‘flora’ returns!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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My memory at times fails me, particularly when I try to recall events in my life … such as when I began growing a fall\/winter beard.<\/p>\n

I started it again this year a few days before the start of autumn. The autumnal equinox came and went a few days ago and my beard already was in full — or nearly full — swing.<\/p>\n

It will remain on my puss until the first day of spring, sometime in March.<\/p>\n

I’ve been known to cheat on growing the thing and then shaving it off. My dear wife disliked it when I was late starting in the fall, and\u00a0 she damn sure really didn’t like it when I shaved it off before the vernal equinox.<\/p>\n

But she got over it and liked me just the same — with or without the facial flora. At least that’s what she told me.<\/p>\n

It gets saltier each year I grow it, meaning it contains far more “salt’ than “pepper” these days.<\/p>\n

The mustache? I started that thing when I was still in the Army. I believe it began sprouting in July 1970. I kept it for 10 years before I shaved it off in a fit of stupidity. I recall coming out of the bathroom sans ‘stashe. My sons took a look at me and started laughing. They never had seen Dad without facial hair. They kept laughing until two or three days later I decided “it’s coming back.”<\/p>\n

Fifty-three years later, it’s still there, now accompanied by the beard that makes me proud.<\/p>\n

As a former colleague and friend of mine, the late Claude Duncan, once told me: “You may have your share of shortcomings, but growing hair isn’t one of them.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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My memory at times fails me, particularly when I try to recall events in my life … such as when I began growing a fall\/winter beard. I started it again this year a few days before the start of autumn. The autumnal equinox came and went a few days ago and my beard already was … Continue reading Fall\/winter ‘flora’ returns!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10024,10124,4375,4455,5280],"class_list":["post-55996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-fall","tag-kathy-anne","tag-spring","tag-summer","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55998,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55996\/revisions\/55998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}