{"id":35204,"date":"2026-05-13T08:25:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35204"},"modified":"2026-05-12T16:14:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T21:14:32","slug":"one-step-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/13\/one-step-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"One Step Forward&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I might have mentioned that I am slowly, over the course of the last few years but more actively in the last couple of weeks, cleaning my garage.  Which includes culling the various things that I collected to make into clocks\/woodburn\/etch\/make into candles&#8211;hell, I don&#8217;t even know why I collected so much of it.  I guess it was intentions to make crafts, which lasted up until <em>Creative Juice<\/em> and <em>That&#8217;s Clever<\/em> went off the cable and air.<\/p>\n<p>One of the other things was collecting, from scattered locations, various pairs of shoes in the garage.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/boxofgarageshoes.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Many of them were &#8220;outside shoes,&#8221; from when we would get a new pair of shoes for the boys (now <em>men<\/em>), and we&#8217;d tell them to use the old ones to work in the garden.  Not that they did; not much gardening has been done at Nogglestead that I have not done (although my beautiful wife has, in recent years, worked very hard on the flower garden that&#8217;s outside her office window).  And, to be honest, although I bought a pair of work boots the first year I lived here and I&#8217;ve worn them in the past (they don&#8217;t have many miles on them, though, as I&#8217;ve also abandoned gardens in the middle of the year in years past), I have taken to doing my yard work in sneakers as well.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, they&#8217;d been kicked into distant corners of the garage, under piles of donations, under stacks of miscellania, behind unused wood, and tripped over at times.  Six or seven pairs of worn, undonateable shoes that they&#8217;ve mostly or completely outgrown.  I&#8217;ve asked them to go through the box, and we&#8217;ll discard most if not all of them.  <\/p>\n<p>So: Progress on the garage, but:<\/p>\n<p>My wife has reclaimed a pair of sandals.  <em>And put them back in the garage.<\/em>  Which means she now has two pairs of outdoor shoes to kick around out there.<\/p>\n<p>One step forward, and two shoes back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I might have mentioned that I am slowly, over the course of the last few years but more actively in the last couple of weeks, cleaning my garage. Which includes culling the various things that I collected to make into clocks\/woodburn\/etch\/make into candles&#8211;hell, I don&#8217;t even know why I collected so much of it. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35205,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35204\/revisions\/35205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}