{"id":15663,"date":"2015-02-09T09:34:19","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T15:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=15663"},"modified":"2015-02-09T09:34:19","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T15:34:19","slug":"yard-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2015\/02\/yard-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Yard work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I write this, on Monday morning, it is pouring rain.  I mean pouring!  It is about 34F so the good news is that it is a warm stream of moisture, hence rain.  If it was snow, it would be wet, heavy and no fun at all&#8230;not that the pouring rain is fun, but it doesn&#8217;t need to be shoveled.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, though, was mostly pleasant.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Feb15\/Yard0667.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Feb15\/Yard0667.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It has been above freezing for 4 days and nights so the ice situation improves daily and my sidewalk is completely clear of ice.  New thing this year is that I cleared significantly on both sides of the walk so there was somewhere for the snowmelt to go and I would have a chance to get the walk cleared.  The other reason was to allow me room to back the Jeep up to the front porch and make loading\/unloading easier without the death defying walk on ice carrying groceries.  Win-Win!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Feb15\/Yard0659.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Feb15\/Yard0659.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By early afternoon, it was nice enough that I decided to do a bit of yard cleanup.  The amount and size of the downfall from the big melt after the big snow was an unsightly mess.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Feb15\/Yard0664.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Feb15\/Yard0664.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The area of the yard and Beardog point that we all enjoy is suddenly much nicer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Feb15\/Yard0668.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Feb15\/Yard0668.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A little sun and blue sky didn&#8217;t hurt our enjoyment, either!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I write this, on Monday morning, it is pouring rain. I mean pouring! It is about 34F so the good news is that it is a warm stream of moisture, hence rain. If it was snow, it would be wet, heavy and no fun at all&#8230;not that the pouring rain is fun, but it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pets","category-the-chairs","category-yard-and-garden"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15663"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15666,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15663\/revisions\/15666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}