{"id":18,"date":"2008-09-01T17:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T00:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sasquatchobservatory.com\/homestead\/2008\/09\/01\/garden-the-alder-trail\/"},"modified":"2011-12-12T20:05:39","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T04:05:39","slug":"garden-the-alder-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sasquatchobservatory.com\/homestead\/2008\/09\/01\/garden-the-alder-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden &amp; the Alder Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_MRxrnE7Fj-s\/SLyWlGjzPBI\/AAAAAAAAAlY\/2IEIMgs-H9o\/s1600-h\/P1010504.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_MRxrnE7Fj-s\/SLyWlGjzPBI\/AAAAAAAAAlY\/2IEIMgs-H9o\/s200\/P1010504.JPG?w=640\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241229630512512018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Coolish fall day, but mostly sunny.  5 mallards flew out of the south pond when I went down to the garden.  Will have to up their cracked corn ration.<\/p>\n<p>The fall\/ever-bearing raspberries are coming on, at least in the original raspberry garden patch.<\/p>\n<p>The Akane apples are getting nice color.  Wondering if it&#8217;s time to taste test them?<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_MRxrnE7Fj-s\/SLyWlbSBCFI\/AAAAAAAAAlo\/Q_dPNxUh7PM\/s1600-h\/P1010537.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_MRxrnE7Fj-s\/SLyWlbSBCFI\/AAAAAAAAAlo\/Q_dPNxUh7PM\/s200\/P1010537.JPG?w=640\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241229636075063378\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Down in the delta garden (by the south pond), I cut all the leaves off of  an overgrown kale plant.  Now I will have to wash and steam it this evening, Then into the freezer.  I also picked some small carrots and zucchini for a salad, with the lettuce that I picked yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Out by the old greenhouse\/outhouse, I cut 3 more flowers for the window sill flower gallery.<\/p>\n<p>Sat under the oldest homestead apple tree and drank a cup of iced coffee (left-over from yesterday, kept in the fridge).<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_MRxrnE7Fj-s\/SLyWlIfHTkI\/AAAAAAAAAlg\/3srDhIktgec\/s1600-h\/P1010517.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_MRxrnE7Fj-s\/SLyWlIfHTkI\/AAAAAAAAAlg\/3srDhIktgec\/s200\/P1010517.JPG?w=640\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241229631029726786\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The dogs and I headed out to walk the Vine Maple section of the trail.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Cucu ran over to the neighbors, who were out with their dogs loose.  I could hear them yelling at Cuca to go home, so I called her back and we turned around and did the alder trail.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/LorenaHavens\/AlderTrailGarden?authkey=AuRzHpg0j8I\">More pictures of the garden and trails<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coolish fall day, but mostly sunny. 5 mallards flew out of the south pond when I went down to the garden. Will have to up their cracked corn ration. The fall\/ever-bearing raspberries are coming on, at least in the original &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sasquatchobservatory.com\/homestead\/2008\/09\/01\/garden-the-alder-trail\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardens","category-trails-around-the-homestead","category-veggies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p23z66-i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sasquatchobservatory.com\/homestead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sasquatchobservatory.com\/homestead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sasquatchobservatory.com\/homestead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sasquatchobservatory.com\/homestead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sasquatchobservatory.com\/homestead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sasquatchobservatory.com\/homestead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/www.sasquatchobservatory.com\/homestead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sasquatchobservatory.com\/homestead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sasquatchobservatory.com\/homestead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sasquatchobservatory.com\/homestead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}