{"id":42,"date":"2006-08-24T09:13:46","date_gmt":"2006-08-24T14:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/24\/ups-man\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:09:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:09:04","slug":"ups-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/24\/ups-man\/","title":{"rendered":"UPS Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How exciting is it when the UPS man comes?\u00a0 We all get into it, even the dogs- Right after I had Cole I was sitting on the couch nursing him and I saw one of my dogs out front chasing a UPS truck down the street.\u00a0 I ran out there (with baby still attached to boob) and started yelling for him to come back.\u00a0 He gets too close and gets clipped by the wheel which sends him rolling to the curb.\u00a0 I am still screaming and finally, <em>finally <\/em>the UPS man decides to stop.\u00a0 My dog Astro was ok, and Andy fixed the fence where he was escaping (let me tell you- that half coyote dog is a genius).\u00a0 So now our UPS experiences are better.\u00a0 Except yesterday when I was expecting a fabric shipment.\u00a0 I opened the door to find this sweet little box from Garnet Hill.\u00a0 Hmmm\u00a0\u00a0tempting as it was to stick it under my shirt, I dutifully took it next door to my neighbor Kitty Jo.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t you just love that name?\u00a0 Her husband&#8217;s name is Rex.\u00a0 Love it.\u00a0 Anyway they are cool, my parents age, and they love kids and dogs and always have an assortment of both coming and going from their house.\u00a0 When I got to her porch I saw my huge package sitting there.\u00a0 She opened the door and I handed her my trade and lugged my big rolls of fabric back home.<\/p>\n<p>But the good thing, new fabric!\u00a0 Check these out.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a class=\"tt-flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/223675940\/IMG_0614.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"500\" alt=\"IMG_0614\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/92\/223675940_2c6bccfa61.jpg\" width=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am so loving the brown and salmon and light blue polka dot, and the atomic looking one- so much fun!<\/p>\n<p>So sign up for the email because as soon as these babies make it to the web site, an email is going out.\u00a0 Now when will they make to the website, well that&#8217;s another story.\u00a0 We have to talk to my tired husband about that one.\u00a0 In the meantime if you see something you want, shoot me an email and we can work it out.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How exciting is it when the UPS man comes?\u00a0 We all get into it, even the dogs- Right after I had Cole I was sitting on the couch nursing him and I saw one of my dogs out front chasing a UPS truck down the street.\u00a0 I ran out there (with baby still attached to boob) and started yelling for him to come back.\u00a0 He gets too close and gets clipped by the wheel which sends him rolling to the curb.\u00a0 I am still screaming and finally, finally the UPS man decides to stop.\u00a0 My dog Astro was ok, and Andy fixed the fence where he was escaping (let me tell you- that half coyote dog is a genius).\u00a0 So now our UPS experiences are better.\u00a0 Except yesterday when I was expecting a fabric shipment.\u00a0 I opened the door to find this sweet little box from Garnet Hill.\u00a0 Hmmm\u00a0\u00a0tempting as it was to stick it under my shirt, I dutifully took it next door to my neighbor Kitty Jo.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t you just love that name?\u00a0 Her husband&#8217;s name is Rex.\u00a0 Love it.\u00a0 Anyway they are cool, my parents age, and they love kids and dogs and always have an assortment of both coming and going from their house.\u00a0 When I got to her porch I saw my huge package sitting there.\u00a0 She opened the door and I handed her my trade and lugged my big rolls of fabric back home. But the good thing, new fabric!\u00a0 Check these out. \u00a0 I am so loving the brown and salmon and light blue polka dot, and the atomic looking one- so much fun! So sign up for the email because as soon as these babies make it to the web site, an email is going out.\u00a0 Now when will they make to the website, well that&#8217;s another story.\u00a0 We have to talk to my tired husband about that one.\u00a0 In the meantime if you see something you want, shoot me an email and we can work it out. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elisalou"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20780,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/20780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}