{"id":656,"date":"2008-10-08T04:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T04:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=656"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:18:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:18:04","slug":"time-for-a-tease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=656","title":{"rendered":"Time for a tease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/goldenrod.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5254606044303501330\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/goldenrod-199x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/susankwilliams.blogspot.com\/\">Susan&#8217;s counter thingy<\/a> says that the Cape May Weekend is just 15 days away and I hear that <a href=\"http:\/\/hastybrook.blogspot.com\/\">Lynne<\/a> has already started packing and <a href=\"http:\/\/katdocsworld.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/cape-may-fund-growing.html\">KatDoc is saving quarters<\/a> for all the tolls on the Parkway&#8230; and I&#8217;m resisting the urge to visit ahead of the rest of the flock.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d really like to go now while it&#8217;s still warmish and the Monarchs and Buckeyes are moving through. I&#8217;m sure Bunker Pond is still full of egrets and that there&#8217;s plenty of Peregrines soaring past the lucky people crowded in the shadow of the lighthouse and Merlins cruising low over the dunes in the late afternoon. Have a peak at some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdcapemay.org\/sightings\/\">most recent numbers here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than that, I&#8217;ll think I&#8217;ll probably spend the next couple weekends wandering around the Pine Barrens. <a href=\"http:\/\/pineypower.com\/\">October is a great month to visit<\/a> and there&#8217;s lots to see and do with the beginning of the cranberry harvest there.<\/p>\n<p>I just got distracted with the duck numbers in that Cape May link, sorry.<\/p>\n<p>Girls&#8230; you&#8217;ve got to find time to visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.njaudubon.org\/research\/seawatch.html\">Seawatch at Avalon<\/a> while you&#8217;re here&#8230; it&#8217;s such a spectacle! I remember standing out in the pouring rain on Friday of last year&#8217;s weekend, wondering why you all weren&#8217;t there with me to witness the tens of thousands of scoters flying past in the fog and rain. It was just unbelievable and very wet.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude09 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/susangetswet.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5254631508503568002\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 204px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 267px\" height=\"282\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/susangetswet-240x300.jpg\" width=\"236\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Something else we should all look forward to is more goofy pics of Susan playing in the surf. Though I suspect I may instead have my camera trained on Lynne as she dips her toes in the Atlantic for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>So girls&#8230; what&#8217;s on your to-do-in-Cape May-lists?<\/p>\n<p>Heather, you still in? <a href=\"http:\/\/dendroica.blogspot.com\/\">John<\/a>? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawkowlsnest.com\/\">Patrick<\/a>? Patrick&#8217;s away on his honeymoon&#8230; what am I thinking?<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude09<\/span><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan&#8217;s counter thingy says that the Cape May Weekend is just 15 days away and I hear that Lynne has already started packing and KatDoc is saving quarters for all the tolls on the Parkway&#8230; and I&#8217;m resisting the urge to visit ahead of the rest of the flock. I&#8217;d really like to go now &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=656\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Time for a tease<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,25,8,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}