{"id":505,"date":"2016-06-26T13:59:26","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T17:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/?p=505"},"modified":"2016-08-12T14:00:14","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T18:00:14","slug":"the-first-weeks-are-always-the-hardest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/?p=505","title":{"rendered":"The first weeks are always the hardest"},"content":{"rendered":"

The growing season is now underway, with the plants doing remarkably well:<\/p>\n

\"Main\"Main<\/p>\n

I love that picture because it’s a beautiful shot of an Adirondack chair I never get to sit in.<\/p>\n

There’s also a critter in the garden:<\/p>\n

\"Luke
Luke<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is our neighbor Luke, who arrived with the new neighbors when they moved in across the street last spring.\u00a0 Can’t have an updated garden blog without photos of a neighbor’s cat.\u00a0 He’s reasonably helpful:<\/p>\n

\"Watching
Watching for chipmunks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He’s actually a better birder but we’ve seen him snag a chipmunk or two.\u00a0 Good kitty!<\/p>\n

He’s not much help with the rabbits, though:<\/p>\n

\"Frolicking\"
Frolicking<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fortunately this year we have not had a moment where I’ve spotted them in the garden because they can squeeze through the fence.\u00a0 It seems like our bobcat from years past may not be around, because there are a lot of them.\u00a0 It was a mild winter, however.<\/p>\n

Even the Back 40 is coming along nicely:<\/p>\n

\"Back<\/p>\n

As part of our new crusade to pay more attention to this garden, we’ve been watering.\u00a0 It’s pretty dry here – there was very little snow this year, and it hasn’t rained much at all.\u00a0 It’s a pain to walk out there to water, but we figure it will give the seedlings their best chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The growing season is now underway, with the plants doing remarkably well: I love that picture because it’s a beautiful shot of an Adirondack chair I never get to sit in. There’s also a critter in the garden: This is our neighbor Luke, who arrived with the new neighbors when they moved in across the … Continue reading The first weeks are always the hardest<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sharing_disabled":false,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[18,6,19,77,30],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3f8I6-89","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}