{"id":2586,"date":"2011-02-10T15:07:43","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T20:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2586"},"modified":"2011-02-10T15:07:43","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T20:07:43","slug":"work-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2586","title":{"rendered":"Work day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/more-garden-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/more-garden-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"more-garden-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2587\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There was an area of garden I would have liked to till last fall, but I didn&#8217;t, because there were a couple of small trees in the way that needed to be transplanted first. Ken transplanted those trees today and did the tilling. We&#8217;re only about a month away, I hope, from planting the early crops. In the photo above, Ken has dug up one of the trees and put it in the wheelbarrow. Patience has approached to admire Ken&#8217;s digging.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/more-garden-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/more-garden-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"more-garden-2\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2587\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Next: Ken with the tiller<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/more-garden-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/more-garden-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"more-garden-3\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2587\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>With the tilling done, the chickens now cluster around to explore the fresh-dug dirt.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/more-garden-4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/more-garden-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"more-garden-4\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2587\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>That&#8217;s Patience at Ken&#8217;s left hand. She has a huge crush on Ken.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/more-garden-5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/more-garden-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"more-garden-5\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2587\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The hawk mesh over the entire garden is almost done. I have to pick up more fishing line, though, before Ken can finish the job. He calculates that he has used about 1.6 miles of fishing line so far. We&#8217;re confident that the fishing line will keep the hawks away from the chickens. But it remains to be seen how long the fishing line will last. A long time, I hope, because it was a huge amount of work for Ken putting it up.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was an area of garden I would have liked to till last fall, but I didn&#8217;t, because there were a couple of small trees in the way that needed to be transplanted first. Ken transplanted those trees today and did the tilling. We&#8217;re only about a month away, I hope, from planting the early &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2586\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Work day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}