{"id":6892,"date":"2013-04-28T20:07:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T03:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/?p=6892"},"modified":"2013-04-28T20:07:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T03:07:36","slug":"spring-is-here-so-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/spring-is-here-so-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring is here&#8230; so what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is everybody happy that spring is finally here? Me&#8230; not so much. I was happy until a series of events have put me on edge. First thing: There was a spider in the bathroom. Second: Last week there was a baby rattle snake in the backyard. The gardeners got rid of it but what if his mom, the big one, comes looking for her son?? Third thing: \u00a0Denis and I were standing out in the backyard last night around 6:00 (it was still very light), watching the hummingbirds, when a skunk walked right past us &#8211; like we were invisible. I went for my camera but Denis said not to make any sudden moves &#8211; if he feels threatened, he could spray us. Mr. Skunk strolled away like he owned the place. Now I can&#8217;t just walk outside carefree any more. In the morning I have to watch where I step not to corner a rattle snake, and in the late afternoon I have to look over my shoulder for the skunk. And as if spiders, snakes, and skunks weren&#8217;t enough&#8230; the tomato plant came back! YES!! IT&#8217;S BACK!! In the exact same spot, right between the roses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/TomatoIsBack_83562.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6896\" title=\"TomatoIsBack_8356\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/TomatoIsBack_83562-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/TomatoIsBack_83562-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/TomatoIsBack_83562-737x1024.jpg 737w, https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/TomatoIsBack_83562.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s just a little sprout right now but that&#8217;s all it was last year and I wound up picking over 8,000 tomatoes! I&#8217;m not doing that again! I don&#8217;t care how delicious and sweet those cherry tomatoes were&#8230;. oh, they were soooo good&#8230;. well, maybe I&#8217;ll just pick the first five thousand. The rabbit can have the rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is everybody happy that spring is finally here? Me&#8230; not so much. I was happy until a series of events have put me on edge. First thing: There was a spider in the bathroom. Second: Last week there was a baby rattle snake in the backyard. The gardeners got rid of it but what if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dear-diary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6892"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6905,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6892\/revisions\/6905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}