{"id":457,"date":"2016-02-12T23:14:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T04:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/newleafblog\/?p=457"},"modified":"2016-02-12T23:25:21","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T04:25:21","slug":"postmaster-badge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/newleafblog\/2016\/02\/12\/postmaster-badge\/","title":{"rendered":"Postmaster Badge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At 10:00 tonight, I opened my gate for Friday Night Forest&#8211;as I do each month on the second Friday. As I waited to see if anyone would come, I noticed the northern lights up in the sky.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-458\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/newleafblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20160212_HNI_0022.jpg\" alt=\"Northern lights above Forest.\" width=\"400\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/newleafblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20160212_HNI_0022.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/newleafblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20160212_HNI_0022-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>I didn&#8217;t just stand around waiting, though; I worked on my badges. I went diving in the ocean, I did some fishing, I caught a few bugs from rocks, and I bought some packs of paper and mailed away about 24 letters to Pashmina and Velma. I also caught some snowflakes here and there, enough to redeem them for two pieces of the ice set from Snowmam.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-459\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/newleafblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20160212_HNI_0024.jpg\" alt=\"Snowmam: As a token of my appreciation, please accept this ice floor.\" width=\"400\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/newleafblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20160212_HNI_0024.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/newleafblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20160212_HNI_0024-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>I haven&#8217;t been able to sell my ice set stuff for a while, though. Every day lately, the premium item at Re-Tail has been a random fish&#8211;it was a yellow perch today. Blah.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once it got to be 10:40, I gave up on receiving any visitors tonight and I closed my gate. And once I did, Phineas appeared in town! He gave me the Postmaster badge (gold) for writing lots of letters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-460\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/newleafblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20160212_HNI_0026.jpg\" alt=\"Getting the postmaster badge from Phineas.\" width=\"400\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/newleafblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20160212_HNI_0026.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/newleafblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20160212_HNI_0026-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>That was the only badge he had for me today, but I&#8217;m not complaining. I&#8217;m glad that I won&#8217;t have to write any more letters! Here is an updated picture of my current badges:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-461\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/newleafblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/badges-021216.jpg\" alt=\"Jeff's badges as of February 2016.\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/newleafblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/badges-021216.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/newleafblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/badges-021216-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My recent dream visitors were Migs from Migsland (yesterday) and Clayton from Lebanon (today). Thanks for stopping by, and have a great weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 10:00 tonight, I opened my gate for Friday Night Forest&#8211;as I do each month on the second Friday. As I waited to see if anyone would come, I noticed the northern lights up in the sky. I didn&#8217;t just stand around waiting, though; I worked on my badges. I went diving in the ocean, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/newleafblog\/2016\/02\/12\/postmaster-badge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Postmaster Badge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Postmaster Badge - Jeff&#039;s New Leaf Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/newleafblog\/2016\/02\/12\/postmaster-badge\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Postmaster Badge - Jeff&#039;s New Leaf Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"At 10:00 tonight, I opened my gate for Friday Night Forest&#8211;as I do each month on the second Friday. 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