{"id":2700,"date":"2010-08-28T22:19:39","date_gmt":"2010-08-29T02:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=2700"},"modified":"2017-09-04T19:27:11","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T23:27:11","slug":"dash-to-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/28\/dash-to-the-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Dash To The Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We had a little window of time to dash to the beach last night before the rain came again … so we took the chance to run down to West Gulf Drive. I found my first Roseate Spoonbill feather within the first 5 minutes! I’m lucky. I feel lucky I found the feather and I’m lucky I have a wonderful husband to share these experiences with in my life.<\/p>\n

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I was reminded today of just how fortunate we are while attending a funeral service of an island friend who lived a long life and enjoyed every minute. As the Reverend remembered some funny stories and all of the joy he gave to so many people, she pointed out that when a person is remembered you always see the date after their name like this … 1931-2010. Their birth date and the date they died. In between those dates is a little dash. That dash represents their whole entire life…. birthdays, holidays, weddings, family reunions, trips to the beach, dinners with friends … everything. Our friend Bob had a very big dash.<\/p>\n

Finding a beautiful BANDED TULIP is a simple little dash but it means such great happiness to me.<\/p>\n

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Or seeing a HERMIT CRAB surfing the waves in his APPLE MUREX shell home.<\/p>\n

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We meet such nice people enjoying their dash.<\/p>\n

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Don (St Augustine, FL)<\/p><\/div>\n

We can’t forget moments like this to make our dashes full of joy.<\/p>\n

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Even if we only have a few minutes to dash to the beach, we should take it because it makes us both so happy. I hope you are enjoying your dash today too.<\/p>\n

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We had a little window of time to dash to the beach last night before the rain came again … so we took the chance to run down to West Gulf Drive. I found my first Roseate Spoonbill feather within the first 5 minutes! I’m lucky. I feel lucky I found the feather and I’m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[461,2047],"tags":[478,112,477,2120,479,463,2131,137,251,71,80,2130],"class_list":["post-2700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roseate-spoonbill","category-tulip","tag-aqua-water","tag-beach","tag-feather","tag-giveaway","tag-gulf-of-mexico","tag-notecards","tag-roseate-spoonbill","tag-sanibel-island","tag-seashell","tag-shelling","tag-shells","tag-write-from-the-beach","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Nubb-Hy","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2700"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27128,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700\/revisions\/27128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}