{"id":573884236,"date":"2012-12-10T22:44:21","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T04:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573884236"},"modified":"2012-12-11T05:01:39","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T11:01:39","slug":"squall-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2012\/12\/10\/squall-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Squall line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raking the leaves. Trying to wrap up the backyard since most of the stuff has turned dry, brown, crinkly and become a victim of gravity. There was just a cardinal nibbling on the last of the bird feeder goodies and the neighbor&#8217;s dog barking whenever I opened a new lawn bag. <\/p>\n<p>We are experimenting with a new leaf disposal system this year. Take a garbage can, remove the bottom, line it with a bag and shovel those offending former instruments of photosynthesis.<\/p>\n<p>Works pretty well. It is my favorite system yet, perhaps. You just have to keep the bag from collapsing. And you&#8217;re constantly smashing the leaves down to push out the air to make more room. When you&#8217;re done you just pull the garbage can up over the bag. <\/p>\n<p>I had three piles to move and three bags to fill. And I was racing this:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec12\/dec12.jpg\" alt=\"clouds\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>So I filled the three bags, getting two of the piles of leaves out of the yard. The bags were so heavy it was a struggle to get them to the curb. Got in just in time. We had almost an inch of rain in just over an hour. Thick, dense, can&#8217;t see the back of the property kind of rain. <\/p>\n<p>And then the cold front moved in. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raking the leaves. Trying to wrap up the backyard since most of the stuff has turned dry, brown, crinkly and become a victim of gravity. There was just a cardinal nibbling on the last of the bird feeder goodies and the neighbor&#8217;s dog barking whenever I opened a new lawn bag. We are experimenting with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573884236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iphone","category-monday","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573884236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573884237,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884236\/revisions\/573884237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573884236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573884236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573884236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}