{"id":1051,"date":"2006-06-08T05:50:38","date_gmt":"2006-06-08T05:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2006\/06\/evening-on-the-porch.html"},"modified":"2006-06-08T05:50:38","modified_gmt":"2006-06-08T05:50:38","slug":"evening-on-the-porch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2006\/06\/evening-on-the-porch.html","title":{"rendered":"Evening on the Porch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was Kris&#8217; birthday yesterday, and Laura and Mark came up for dinner on the porch. I made mushroom caps filled with basil, a salad, and I cooked up Chinese in the wok. Then we went for a long walk at Independence Grove Forest Preserve &#8212; where we saw an Eastern Bluebird nest with some babies poking their heads out. <!--more|inline-->A little<strike>ice cream<\/strike> custard at Culver&#8217;s led us back to the porch for some good time talking. 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