{"id":44,"date":"2007-07-25T06:54:42","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T13:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=44"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:21:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:21:07","slug":"taking-back-the-front-porch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2007\/07\/taking-back-the-front-porch\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking back the Front Porch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/July20to312007\/Wasp2Ladders.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"adders\" height=\"278\" style=\"width: 220px; height: 278px\" title=\"Ladders\" \/>\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/July20to312007\/Wasp2Outfit250230.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Outfit\" height=\"230\" style=\"width: 250px; height: 230px\" title=\"Outfit\" \/>By popular demand&#8230;the outfit&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Day 2 was much less stressful &#8211; it was cooler by 10 degrees and my anxiety level was less due to the success of day 1 &#8211; there were no visible wasps &#8211; a second dose of the foamy spray, knocked down the remaining 2 nests and done.\u00a0 I did do another walk around and found one mini-nest &#8211; stragglers from yesterday rebuilding??? Not sure but I will have to keep a watch.<\/p>\n<p>Last night I went out with a glass of ginger ale spiked with maraschino cherries &#8211; all quiet&#8230;\u00a0 spritzed some fresh hair spray &#8211; still quiet.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see &#8211; hard to believe there aren&#8217;t some colonies in one of the wood piles but maybe reducing the population on the house will do the trick.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/July20to312007\/Wasp2FlowersBob270243.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Flowers and Bob\" height=\"243\" style=\"width: 270px; height: 243px\" title=\"Flowers and Bob\" \/>\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>At the moment, the front porch is ours!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 By popular demand&#8230;the outfit&#8230;. Day 2 was much less stressful &#8211; it was cooler by 10 degrees and my anxiety level was less due to the success of day 1 &#8211; there were no visible wasps &#8211; a second dose of the foamy spray, knocked down the remaining 2 nests and done.\u00a0 I did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,20,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-montana","category-weather","category-yard-and-garden"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","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=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22534,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/22534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}