{"id":22735,"date":"2013-10-19T15:15:40","date_gmt":"2013-10-19T21:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=22735"},"modified":"2016-05-08T16:08:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T22:08:30","slug":"outdoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=22735","title":{"rendered":"Outdoors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fall \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Samhain Moon<\/p>\n<p>The mid-point of October and we&#8217;re almost done with gardening. \u00a0We broadcast under the cherry and plum trees today, removing the mulch, taking up the landscape cloth, laying down the fertilizer and spraying the biotill, then replacing the landscape cloth. \u00a0After the nap I helped Kate get the landscape cloth back down, then while she rejoined it with staples to the ground, I sprayed biotill on the vegetable garden beds and mulched all of them but the herb spiral.<\/p>\n<p>(Persephone and Hades)<\/p>\n<p>The raspberries, which I picked this morning, are still producing and the leeks await a cooking day when I will make chicken leek pot pies, next week probably. \u00a0 The leek bed will get fertilized, sprayed and mulched when they are inside while cutting down the raspberry canes, then spraying and fertilizing has to wait until they quit bearing.<\/p>\n<p>This was significant manual labor and we&#8217;re both in the weary phase. \u00a0A quiet evening <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/leaf-tea-bowl1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22737\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/leaf-tea-bowl1.jpg\" alt=\"leaf tea bowl\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a>ahead. \u00a0Some Latin right now for me.<\/p>\n<p>My new teaware came, a clay bamboo holder for my tea utensils, a new pitcher made of yixing clay with a white ceramic glaze inside and a rosewood tea scoop. \u00a0All of this from a shop in Vancouver that has excellent products, <a href=\"http:\/\/store.thechineseteashop.com\/default.asp\">The Chinese Teashop<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Samhain Moon The mid-point of October and we&#8217;re almost done with gardening. \u00a0We broadcast under the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=22735\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Outdoors<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,290,4,65,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-asia","category-cooking","category-family","category-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22735"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38855,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22735\/revisions\/38855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}