{"id":4064,"date":"2012-04-22T18:41:15","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T01:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/22\/yard-maintenance-day\/"},"modified":"2012-04-22T18:41:15","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T01:41:15","slug":"yard-maintenance-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/22\/yard-maintenance-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Yard Maintenance Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/yard-pile.jpg' title='yard-pile.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/yard-pile.jpg' alt='yard-pile.jpg' width='320' class='right' \/><\/a>Well, today was the day I set aside to do some yard maintenance on the California house. There were weeds to pull\/spray, three palm trees that had drooping fronds and\/or fruit pods to be removed. There were several runaway cereus cacti plus one umbrella tree both of which were hanging over the property line.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image: pile of stuff we took down &#8211; click to enlarge<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I started on the weeds and graduated to the palms after that. When I finished trimming the trees, Verna and I tackled the umbrella tree and the cereus cacti. The pile seen in the image will stay where it is until the next trip out when I will chunk everything up into refuse container sized pieces. Another option is to hire a crew to do that and haul everything. We&#8217;re still thinking about it.<\/p>\n<p>After a visit to my Mom&#8217;s for her 92nd birthday tomorrow, we will head back toward the desert on Tuesday with scheduled visits to Joshua Tree National Park and our &#8220;river rat&#8221; friends (Jim and Karen) on the Colorado River. We can&#8217;t wait to leave the cold temperatures, the marine overcast and drizzle behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, today was the day I set aside to do some yard maintenance on the California house. There were weeds to pull\/spray, three palm trees that&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}