{"id":15746,"date":"2022-04-03T18:53:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T22:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=15746"},"modified":"2022-04-03T18:56:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T22:56:26","slug":"espanol-yard-work-4-3-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=15746","title":{"rendered":"Espa\u00f1ol! Yard work! 4.3.22"},"content":{"rendered":"

Espa\u00f1ol!
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Message from NASA.<\/p>\n

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OYB!
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I liked listening to this song today. It’s one I don’t remember hearing before. It’s from my current favorite band: Metronomy.
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I took on a major challenge today: raking the leaves in the front yard. It’s important to have a long-term vision for what you want to have happen in the yard.<\/p>\n

Here are some shots of before I started raking.
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I started systematically removing the leaf litter from areas I wanted uncovered, primarily where I had planted liriope.<\/p>\n

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I put the leaves I collected either on an embankment I’m making at the north end of my property or along the path near my house up the hill.<\/p>\n

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Collected a lot of small branches.
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The wild flowers and azaleas are marvelous this time of year.
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I believe in letting the leaves do what they’re designed to do: compost.
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Why bag up what the forest will turn into rich soil?
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Good work out. 2:32 hours hits my exercise goal for this week, although I anticipate getting a lot more. I’ll have Penelope and Everly together. I plan on us doing lots of active things, in particular bike riding. Amen.<\/p>\n

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Raked up all the front of the house. It really needs bags of bark to keep the soil from eroding.<\/p>\n

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Nice panoramic shot of my property.<\/p>\n

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Felt absolutely perfect outside. A joy to work in.<\/p>\n

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This is about two foot of leaves I’ve spread at the bottom part of my yard. I want to slowly build the level up there to reduce the slope of the yard.<\/p>\n

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The liriope looks great now that the leaves have been removed. They protected the plants from the intense cold we had this winter.<\/p>\n

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I found my sprinkler underneath the leaves. Also pulled out the Blue Pool. I probably need to get another one. Mine leaks.<\/p>\n

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One of the last things I do is to walk around on the piles of leaves to start compressing them.<\/p>\n

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It really is amazing to me just how fast the mycelium will turn this into nothing but soil.<\/p>\n

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Cleaned out and refilled my birdbaths and feeders.
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Looking forward to playing Horizon Forbidden West and relaxing after a hard day of manual labor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Espa\u00f1ol! Message from NASA. OYB! I liked listening to this song today. It’s one I don’t remember hearing before. It’s from my current favorite band: Metronomy. I took on a major challenge today: raking the leaves in the front yard. It’s important to have a long-term vision for what you want to have happen in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15746"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15750,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15746\/revisions\/15750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}