{"id":1651,"date":"2009-02-07T18:58:36","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T00:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mercuryranch.org\/blog\/?p=1651"},"modified":"2016-02-11T16:15:09","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T22:15:09","slug":"25-through-february-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/25-through-february-already\/","title":{"rendered":"25% Through February Already!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where has the month gone?\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t been doing anything exciting, but just in case you have been wondering, here&#8217;s what&#8217;s been up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m experiencing a wave of spam.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve noticed spam goes in cycles, and this is an up cycle.\u00a0 Akismet does it&#8217;s job and catches nearly all of it.\u00a0 The rest goes to the cue for approval, so, fortunately, you&#8217;re not subjected to it.<\/li>\n<li>Central Texas weather has been gorgeous.\u00a0 But we desperately need rain.\u00a0 Lacking rain, I&#8217;ve been taking advantage of the beautiful weather and have been doing yard work.\u00a0 Maybe I&#8217;ll take some pictures.\u00a0 Mostly, I&#8217;ve been thinning and trimming hedge trees.<\/li>\n<li>We made two trips to the ranch this week.\u00a0 On the first trip, we removed a fallen tree from the road, dropped off leaves, and retrieved the car trailer, the cement mixer, the chipper\/shredder, and the 7kw generator.\u00a0 We also loaded the utility trailer onto the car trailer, so nobody got left behind.\u00a0 The chipper\/shredder has been making tree debris clean up MUCH easier.<\/li>\n<li>On the second ranch trip, we replaced a damaged roof vent on the motor home, cleaned up some trash.\u00a0 A mouse or mice has\/have taken up residence and have not been very neat.\u00a0 I do wonder if they thrived on the can of Comet cleanser they chewed into or if that gave them indigestion.\u00a0 We brought the two younger dogs, and they enjoyed the opportunity to run free.<\/li>\n<li>Yesterday, I trimmed half the hedge trees.\u00a0 Today, after running around with hubby in the morning, I shredded about one-third of the tree debris pile.<\/li>\n<li>Mafia Wars on Facebook has captured my fascination for the moment.\u00a0 It&#8217;s kind of fun.\u00a0 If you want to play along, please send me an invite or let me know, and I&#8217;ll send you one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t completely neglected writing.\u00a0 I&#8217;m reworking Scene 16.\u00a0 It&#8217;s another one to be rewritten from Valencia&#8217;s POV, and I&#8217;m seeing some better ways to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where has the month gone?\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t been doing anything exciting, but just in case you have been wondering, here&#8217;s what&#8217;s been up: I&#8217;m experiencing a wave of spam.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve noticed spam goes in cycles, and this is an up cycle.\u00a0 Akismet does it&#8217;s job and catches nearly all of <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/25-through-february-already\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[77,5,49],"tags":[128,123],"class_list":["post-1651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pets","category-property","category-twilight","tag-house","tag-ranch"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}