{"id":620,"date":"2010-03-04T19:29:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T00:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amperzen.com\/blog\/?p=620"},"modified":"2010-03-04T19:29:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T00:29:09","slug":"did-you-ever-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amperzen.com\/blog\/did-you-ever-wonder\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you ever wonder&#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As readers of this blog may or may not know, we collect bears.\u00a0 We also have a number of Tigers living in our house.\u00a0 If any of you also have stuffed furry friends in their abodes, you may know just how often having a few critters about can be handy when things go wrong or are out of place &#8212; after all they&#8217;re home all day when you&#8217;re not.<\/p>\n<p>So, did you ever wonder what they get up to when you&#8217;re not home?<\/p>\n<p>Well, I work at home so I&#8217;m here most of the time.\u00a0 But, I&#8217;ve noticed that things go missing.\u00a0 Things are often not where I put them.\u00a0 I swear I put things back after I use them but somehow I have to search the whole house to find what should have been on my table\/desk or near my reading chair.<\/p>\n<p>So, imagine my surprise last week when I went upstairs to get my phone (I&#8217;d left it on the shelf by the bed) to find this little scenario.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Tigers trying to figure out a sock pattern\" src=\"https:\/\/amperzen.com\/blog\/images\/2010\/Tigers_knitting.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of stuffed tigers trying to figure out a sock pattern book\" width=\"425\" height=\"299\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well, this finally explains the missing knitting needles, yarn, and the occasional pattern book.\u00a0 What I really can&#8217;t figure out is why I don&#8217;t have extra hand-knit (excuse me tigger-knit) socks in my drawer.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I think I live in an alternate dimension &#8212; or the Twilight Zone without the weird music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As readers of this blog may or may not know, we collect bears.\u00a0 We also have a number of Tigers living in our house.\u00a0 If any of you also have stuffed furry friends in their abodes, you may know just how often having a few critters about can be handy when things go wrong or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,14,23,9],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-hearth-and-home","category-knitting","category-socks","tag-fantasy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Did you ever wonder...? 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