{"id":7408,"date":"2014-08-21T02:35:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T07:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/polarbear60.org\/randr\/?p=7408"},"modified":"2025-08-07T11:13:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T16:13:18","slug":"august-property-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/august-property-update\/","title":{"rendered":"August Property Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a busy month for us here at Mercury Ranch.\u00a0 But just to make sure you have a solid perspective on things, please go read this post about putting on your perspectacles. (Don&#8217;t worry, it will open in a new window or tab, so you can easily come back here to finish.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll wait.)<\/p>\n<p>Did that help whatever ails you?\u00a0 I hope so.\u00a0 Now.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s been happening around here:<\/p>\n<p><strong>San Antonio House<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yard is holding it&#8217;s own.\u00a0 For now.<\/li>\n<li>Got trimming and edging done.<\/li>\n<li>Got new neighbors.<\/li>\n<li>We had a bountiful fig harvest, and the second crop isn&#8217;t ripe yet, so we&#8217;re likely to get more (assuming they ripen while I&#8217;m in town).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Ranch<\/strong>: I got the deer feeder and game camera installed.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to go check on it next Monday.\u00a0 I hope the camera chip is filled with interesting things.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Store<\/strong>: It&#8217;s been so dry, I haven&#8217;t wanted to stress the grass any more than necessary, so I haven&#8217;t mowed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Shop<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mr. L has installed more lighting.\u00a0 He&#8217;s about two-thirds done with the shop area.<\/li>\n<li>Mr. L has moved my Jeep onto the lift in preparation for installing the rebuilt transfer case.\u00a0 He has just the power take-off unit to go, and the driveline will be completely rebuilt.<\/li>\n<li>Mr. L moved the woodie body to where the Jeep used to be.<\/li>\n<li>We moved the woodie wood kit to the shop and have it in a dry place lifted off the floor (just in case)<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;re preparing to haul automotive items to a swap meet at the end of the month, so that stuff is pulled out and preparing for pricing and loading onto two trailers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Central Texas House<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>While I was in San Antonio, Mr. L rearranged the blue room and moved a lot of stuff out of it to other parts unknown &#8212; presumably where the stuff needed to be<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s been dry, so the yard didn&#8217;t grow much, but I still leveled it with the mower deck at the highest setting and generated three bags of clippings.<\/li>\n<li>I picked pears from our pear tree.\u00a0 Tasty. I estimate about one-third of a bushel of pears.\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t able to reach all of them, but the birds will enjoy them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a busy month for us here at Mercury Ranch.\u00a0 But just to make sure you have a solid perspective on things, please go read this post about putting on your perspectacles. (Don&#8217;t worry, it will open in a new window or tab, so you can easily come back <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/august-property-update\/\"><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":[5,103],"tags":[122,123,126,127,124],"class_list":["post-7408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property","category-property-update","tag-central-tx-house","tag-ranch","tag-sa-house","tag-shop","tag-store"],"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\/7408","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=7408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16448,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7408\/revisions\/16448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}