{"id":4105,"date":"2022-06-05T21:56:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T01:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisiswilmot.ca\/?page_id=4105"},"modified":"2022-06-05T21:56:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T01:56:04","slug":"balcony-or-patio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thisiswilmot.ca\/?page_id=4105","title":{"rendered":"“Balcony or Patio?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bacon Scrapins<\/em><\/strong> are the little bits of meat left in the greasy fry pan. They\u2019re tasty, but the \u2018nutrition\u2019 needs searching for. This tale is a bacon scrapin<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I first met Mike and Erica forty-five years ago. They lived down the hall and around the corner from my future wife in a high-rise apartment in the city. We got married the next year. They moved to a double-drive-with-a-pool, side-split in the country. We moved into a bungalow, \u2018sans garage\u2019, on the edge of the city.<\/p>\n

Mike and Erica raised their family in the country. My wife and I have moved five times since, each time to small rural towns. Both our families\u2019 kids have grown, left, married and presented us with grandchildren. A year ago, Mike and Erica sold the bungalow with the pool and got a deal on a two-bedroom condo on the sixth floor in Belmont Village \u2013 \u201cRight in the centre of it all!\u201d as Mike says. We\u2019re still in a bungalow in the countryside.<\/p>\n

Mike\u2019s something of a chef. He is a fan of the craft breweries and multi-cultured eateries in the city. Together, the four of us have enjoyed walking circuits of the Belmont Village area. It\u2019s close to Grand River Hospital in an emergency, a short jaunt to Waterloo Park, and on a clear evening you can hear the live band music. You can also see the cranes and skeletons of ever taller high-rises going up, closer and closer to their balcony.<\/p>\n

Mike ends his day looking out at the high-rises to south, east and west. He enjoys the clicking of the wheels on the rails as the diesel growls its way across the short bridge \u00bc block away. He is lulled by the tires of cars constantly passing below him.<\/p>\n

Me? There\u2019s something special about sitting in my zero-gravity chair, brewski in hand, tracking a blinking plane light as it slowly passes across the line of the Dipper, imagining where we could be going. Nothing beats gently dozing off to the gentle breeze – carrying that slight hint of manure across my patio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bacon Scrapins are the little bits of meat left in the greasy fry pan. They\u2019re tasty, but the \u2018nutrition\u2019 needs searching for. This tale is a bacon scrapin. I first met Mike and Erica forty-five years ago. They lived down the hall and around the corner from my future wife […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4072,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4105","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisiswilmot.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisiswilmot.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisiswilmot.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisiswilmot.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisiswilmot.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thisiswilmot.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4106,"href":"https:\/\/thisiswilmot.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4105\/revisions\/4106"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisiswilmot.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisiswilmot.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}