{"id":219,"date":"2011-06-13T12:53:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T19:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/?p=219"},"modified":"2011-11-07T12:51:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T20:51:38","slug":"patio-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/2011\/patio-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Patio Parties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A birthday celebration was the inaugural event for the &#8220;pathio&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 I wrapped garden stakes in colourful crepe paper ribbon and Dave blew up balloons.\u00c2\u00a0 The balloons were affixed to the top of the stakes and put in the ground along the path and around the patio.\u00c2\u00a0 We wove additional paper ribbon around the underside of the umbrella and the table was decorated in cheery Spring splendor.\u00c2\u00a0 The sun came out just before our birthday guest arrived making everything look all the more inviting.\u00c2\u00a0 One day we&#8217;ll look back at these photos and chuckle how bare everything looks without the plants but at least we are already enjoying our new front yard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/2011\/patio-party\/img_4474\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-220\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-220\" title=\"IMG_4474\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_4474-400x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_4474-400x365.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_4474-175x159.jpg 175w, https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_4474-1024x934.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/2011\/patio-party\/img_4477\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-221\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-221\" title=\"IMG_4477\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_4477-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_4477-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_4477-175x131.jpg 175w, https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_4477-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/2011\/patio-party\/img_4479\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-222\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-222\" title=\"IMG_4479\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_4479-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_4479-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_4479-175x131.jpg 175w, https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_4479-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>HALLOWEEN weekend was a great opportunity to bring our neighbors together for a Meet &amp; Greet Coffee Klatch.\u00c2\u00a0 The weather was beautiful and everyone arrived with something wonderful to eat.\u00c2\u00a0 We welcomed the two newest families to our neighborhood, one which also had a new baby born at the beginning of the month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/2011\/patio-party\/hood-party\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-255\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-255\" title=\"Coffee Klatch\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Hood-Party-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Hood-Party-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Hood-Party-175x131.jpg 175w, https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Hood-Party-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Halloween night the weather was cool.\u00c2\u00a0 This was ideal for the campfire we enjoyed on the patio where we waited for and\u00c2\u00a0 greeted Trick or Treaters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/2011\/patio-party\/halloween\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-256\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-256\" title=\"Halloween\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Halloween-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Halloween-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Halloween-175x131.jpg 175w, https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Halloween-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A birthday celebration was the inaugural event for the &#8220;pathio&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 I wrapped garden stakes in colourful crepe paper ribbon and Dave blew up balloons.\u00c2\u00a0 The balloons were affixed to the top of the stakes and put in the ground along the path and around the patio.\u00c2\u00a0 We wove additional paper ribbon around the underside of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-yard-patio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}