{"id":2874,"date":"2026-08-10T20:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T00:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=2874"},"modified":"2026-08-10T20:55:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T00:55:33","slug":"belated-wishes-for-happy-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=2874","title":{"rendered":"Belated Wishes for Happy Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two major holidays were celebrated over the weekend:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">August 8 is National Sneak Some Zucchini Into Your Neighbor&#8217;s Porch Day. It was created by Tom Roy who, with his wife Ruth, <a href=\"https:\/\/lebtown.com\/2023\/10\/25\/lebanon-county-couple-finds-joy-in-creating-hoodie-hoo-and-other-holidays\/?srsltid=AfmBOorCQkDMSdI8haNYbFYke-j4vIc8O24_syz758KDNOatDWNgN-ac&amp;lts=jnjdfrblsz\">has created lots of different holidays<\/a>. I feel a close connection to them as they lived for many years in  Mt. Gretna, Pennsylvania, one of my favorite places on earth. Enjoy this video I made in 2013! I found it when I was searching for blog posts and had long forgotten about it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ayin7wmtyXI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nationaldaycalendar.com\/celebrations\/national-book-lovers-day-august-9\">August 9 is National Book Lovers Day.<\/a> I often joke that my husband convinced me to move into our old, sometimes challenging farmhouse, because it had a library where my books could be out for the world to see. I have had a lifelong love affair with books and a few of those on my shelves have been with me for decades. Now, as we consider downsizing, I am considering how to cull what has become a sprawling collection that long ago outgrew the library. There seem to be books everywhere! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Giving away books I have read is no problem. But, it may be time to give away books that I haven&#8217;t read. As I sort through piles, I consider the possibility that I will probably never read certain books. It may be time to release them to the wild to find someone who will read them. So far, it hasn&#8217;t been as hard as I thought it would be. Some books just don&#8217;t speak to me the way they did when I acquired them. And, unlike when I began my book collecting, books are widely available at the click of a button. I don&#8217;t have to worry that losing the physical book means never having the opportunity to read it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hardest pile to whittle has been the professional books. I have a collection of some classic books about educational technology including manuals for teaching with this new thing called the Internet. I will share some of the titles in a future blog post. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, it is not too late to share some zucchini with your neighbor before curling up with a good book. And, if you are intrigued by these holidays, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/nationaldaycalendar.com\/\">browse the full calendar at National Day Calendar<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two major holidays were celebrated over the weekend: August 8 is National Sneak Some Zucchini Into Your Neighbor&#8217;s Porch Day. It was created by Tom Roy who, with his wife Ruth, has created lots of different holidays. I feel a close connection to them as they lived for many years in Mt. Gretna, Pennsylvania, one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=2874\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Belated Wishes for Happy Holidays<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[74,578],"tags":[786,785,784],"class_list":["post-2874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-just-for-fun","tag-holidays","tag-mt-gretna","tag-zucchini"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4X3L0-Km","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2874"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2877,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874\/revisions\/2877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}