{"id":814,"date":"2013-07-20T14:55:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T14:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/?p=814"},"modified":"2013-07-24T15:25:43","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T15:25:43","slug":"nature-is-out-to-get-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/2013\/07\/20\/nature-is-out-to-get-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature is out to get us"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, I spent a couple of hours fighting back nature. \u00a0Roman is back from selling home automation\/security in Kansas. \u00a0It was nice to having him help battle back. \u00a0He mowed the lawn, trimmed the roses, the weeds and edged the grass. \u00a0I have an app on my phone that keeps track of the calories I burn doing yard work. \u00a0I spent one hour and twenty five minutes. \u00a0Over the past couple of weeks it has rained a lot for Utah. \u00a0I was surprised how much growth there had been with the weeds. \u00a0For about a month, I have been wanting to cut back the roses. \u00a0I was able to fill up a 40 gallon garbage can with what I trimmed back from the roses.<\/p>\n

Another tough thing with the yard is the ornamental plumbs are attaching with full vigor. \u00a0We have been out there five times in the last two weeks each time picking up at least 3 gallons of plums that have fallen to the ground. \u00a0One day Amanda and Emerson picked almost 4 gallons of plums and juiced them. \u00a0That made some decent syrup. \u00a0But they keep attaching. \u00a0I wonder when that nastiness is going to stop.\"CityOverTakenByJungle\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Without constant vigilance slowly, ever so slowly, the weeds, the grass, the plants, the shrubs, the bushes and the trees; ever so quietly keep reaching out to strangle us out. \u00a0I have heard the environmentalist keep ranting that we are destroying the ecosystem. \u00a0However, I believe if the humans left for 50 years and then came back we would all be shocked at how quickly and powerfully nature would reclaim the territory we have been fighting to preserve for centuries. \u00a0Especially if the climate change, \u00a0Al Gore loves to evangelize, creates a more humid and wet planet. \u00a0With the polar ice caps melting at such an alarming rate the extra water could give the vegetation the added power it currently does not have which allows us to maintain the victories we have won.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, I spent a couple of hours fighting back nature. \u00a0Roman is back from selling home automation\/security in Kansas. \u00a0It was nice to having him help battle back. \u00a0He mowed the lawn, trimmed the roses, the weeds and edged the grass. \u00a0I have an app on my phone that keeps track of the calories I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stuff-like-a-jornal-entry","7":"entry"},"modified_by":"D. Gardner","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p32Jie-d8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830,"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}