{"id":63,"date":"2015-08-28T17:09:07","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T21:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/?p=63"},"modified":"2015-08-28T17:09:07","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T21:09:07","slug":"23-my-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"23. My Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Lake4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-64\" src=\"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Lake4-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Lake4\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Lake4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Lake4.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In April 2013, I moved into a condo overlooking a lake.\u00a0 And when I say overlooking, walls on two sides are filled with big windows through which you can see the lake.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a big lake.\u00a0 When I walk to the other side and back, I travel a little over a mile.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s lovely.\u00a0 The wildflowers growing by it change by the week.\u00a0 I regularly see birds and bunnies when I walk by and have also seen squirrels, deer, and foxes.<\/p>\n<p>And those birds!\u00a0 I never get tired of seeing a great blue heron who likes to hang out here.\u00a0 (More on that later!)\u00a0 But I also see great egrets, goldfinches, cardinals, red-winged blackbirds, woodpeckers, robins, mallards, Canada geese, and other interesting or seemingly ordinary birds.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, the lake gave me back my health!\u00a0 In August 2011 I had a stroke.\u00a0 I had the stroke because of an accident, not from lack of fitness &#8212; but the stroke itself destroyed my fitness level.<\/p>\n<p>When I moved into this condo, the lake was so enticing, I was able to get myself to walk around it regularly.\u00a0 I had never in all my life done a regular exercise program before.\u00a0 I feel much more fit than I was after the stroke and before I started walking.<\/p>\n<p>My lake is a daily blessing I&#8217;m so thankful for.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Lake3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-65\" src=\"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Lake3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Lake3\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Lake3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Lake3.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In April 2013, I moved into a condo overlooking a lake.\u00a0 And when I say overlooking, walls on two sides are filled with big windows through which you can see the lake. It&#8217;s not a big lake.\u00a0 When I walk to the other side and back, I travel a little over a mile.\u00a0 But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,8,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}