{"id":12536,"date":"2026-05-04T15:00:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=12536"},"modified":"2026-06-08T15:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T20:18:08","slug":"weekend-recap-05-02-05-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=12536","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Recap 05\/02-05\/03"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday (05\/02)<\/strong> we went to ABT to look at binoculars. I had my sights on the Nikon Prostaff P3 10×42 ($160 retail) which were ok. When I asked to try the 8×42 version, the employee mistakenly handed me the Nikon Monarch M5 8×42 ($340 retail) instead and I fell in love with them.<\/p>\n

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Not one to buy something on a whim, I took his business card so I could go home and do more research. That’s when I learned about a term called called eye relief and how this affects whether you can see through a pair of binoculars with glasses on. I always have to take mine off for all the binoculars we own, but the pair I’m thinking of getting don’t require that which is a real plus. Not only that, but the hinge bends close enough to accommodate my close-set eyes. The glass is a higher quality too so everything was brighter and crisper even though the magnification was less. That makes them heavier, though, which is a trade-off. I’m still thinking about whether I want to buy them or look at more binoculars first, but it’s hard finding places that have them on display to try. ABT only had a few and they were all Nikon.<\/p>\n

(Update<\/strong>: a month later they are selling for $40 less).<\/em><\/p>\n

After ABT we walked around the nearby River Trail Nature Center before making a stop at McDonald’s to pick up some chocolate chip cookies for our friend, K, who we were visiting for the afternoon.<\/p>\n

Joe replaced her patio door screen and helped her mount a new outdoor camera. We had lunch from a Thai place.<\/p>\n

Sunday (05\/03)<\/strong> I bought three new hand soaps from Woodman’s. I don’t want to use Bath & Body Works soaps anymore so I’m phasing them out. Not only are they expensive, but their bottles tip over too easily. <\/p>\n

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The Softsoap ones were inspired by K; she had both scents in her house and I really liked them both. Mrs. Meyers is a brand I’ve seen a lot of people say they like. They had multiple scents and the honeysuckle smelled the best. They have an apple one I liked too but I will save that for the fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday (05\/02) we went to ABT to look at binoculars. I had my sights on the Nikon Prostaff P3 10×42 ($160 retail) which were ok. When I asked to try the 8×42 version, the employee mistakenly handed me the Nikon Monarch M5 8×42 ($340 retail) instead and I fell in love with them. Not one to buy something on a whim, I took his business card so I could go home and do more research. That’s when I learned about a term called called eye relief and how this affects whether you can see through a pair of binoculars with glasses on. I always have to take mine off for all the binoculars we own, but the pair I’m thinking of getting don’t require that which is a real plus. Not only that, but the hinge bends close enough to accommodate my close-set eyes. The glass is a higher quality Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,32,96,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excursions","category-friends","category-recaps","category-shopping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12536"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12543,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12536\/revisions\/12543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}