{"id":4169,"date":"2009-07-08T11:32:13","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T15:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=4169"},"modified":"2009-07-08T11:32:13","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T15:32:13","slug":"lakewalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/lakewalk","title":{"rendered":"Lakewalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a chunk of the morning working on the garage. After clearing out a 40-year-old worktable, I discovered that it was over a square foot of extremely sticky, viscous grease-oil sludge, with decades worth of junk (nails, can lids, lightbulbs, etc.) trapped in it. I scraped up a lot of it (it takes the paint off the floor!), then decided to take a break.<\/p>\n<p>Since it&#8217;s such a lovely day \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 70 degrees, sunny, nice breeze \u00e2\u20ac\u201d I decided to take Rufus out to a trail on Skyline Drive and walk up to <a href=\"http:\/\/findlakes.com\/ramapo_lake_new-jersey~nj00216.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Ramapo Lake<\/a>. Ru decided that he needed to cool down a little, and, well . . .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chimeraobscura\/3700789209\/in\/set-72157621004636697\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3657\/3700789209_909d7f44e8.jpg?w=490\" alt=\"\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chimeraobscura\/sets\/72157621004636697\/\" target=\"_blank\">full set of pix<\/a> from the walk. Now, back to home-work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a chunk of the morning working on the garage. After clearing out a 40-year-old worktable, I discovered that it was over a square foot of extremely sticky, viscous grease-oil sludge, with decades worth of junk (nails, can lids, lightbulbs, etc.) trapped in it. I scraped up a lot of it (it takes the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/lakewalk\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lakewalk&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[61,3],"tags":[212,770,111],"class_list":["post-4169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-rufus-and-or-otis","category-suburbs","tag-greyhound","tag-ramapo-lake","tag-rufus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4C7K-lakewalk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5469,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/dirty-water-dog","url_meta":{"origin":4169,"position":0},"title":"Dirty Water Dog","author":"Gil","date":"July 29, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm taking Thursday and Friday off and having a mini-stay-at-home-vacation. 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