{"id":9343,"date":"2026-01-24T22:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T04:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/?p=9343"},"modified":"2026-01-24T22:04:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T04:04:22","slug":"on-top-of-spaghetti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/2026\/01\/24\/on-top-of-spaghetti\/","title":{"rendered":"On Top of Spaghetti"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We got up fairly early today. Eaddie spent the night with Maristella, so Summer and I ate some leftovers for an early lunch. I got a fire going for Summer while she cross stitched all day, and got a load of laundry done. We walked up the cul-de-sac with Muad&#8217;Dib to let him get out a little bit, but Summer didn&#8217;t want to go any further than that. We could tell the streets were going to be sheets of ice after a day or two of refreezing, because they were already packed down hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Later in the afternoon, we started making the spaghetti to let it simmer a while. I thought it was going to be really liquidy, so I left the lid cocked just a little bit. That ended up being a bad idea, because it dried out and burned on the bottom. Fortunately, even as blackened as it was, it didn&#8217;t ruin the whole pot. We added some more pasta sauce we found in the pantry, and I added some water, and later some pasta water to help it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Summer had been struggling all day, and wanted to eat on the couch. I didn&#8217;t want to make a mess, and had cleaned the dining table for us to eat, so I ate out there by myself. The food was great though, in spite of me trying to burn the place down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eaddie never made it back home, even by foot as they had discussed yesterday. The ice continued, so we&#8217;ll see how it looks tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Connect, dammit!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got up fairly early today. Eaddie spent the night with Maristella, so Summer and I ate some leftovers for an early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51,82,96,29,36,83,42,71],"class_list":["post-9343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-cleanup-on-aisle-5","tag-depression","tag-dog","tag-family","tag-food","tag-home","tag-pets","tag-sad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9344,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9343\/revisions\/9344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}