{"id":1176,"date":"2006-04-20T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-20T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2006-04-20T18:42:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-20T13:42:00","slug":"plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1176","title":{"rendered":"Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"

Got all the plants (the ones that survived the Great Shelf Disaster) into 6 inch pots. Except, of course, for the peppers … because they’re still too freakishly tiny to bother moving. I’m thinking that maybe the marigolds will be in still larger containers by the time the peppers are ready to upgrade … because otherwise I’m going to need more 6 inch pots. How can 32 of anything<\/em> be inadequate? Anyway, they’re all out on the porch, about to spend their first night outdoors. Wish them luck. It’s live or die time in plant-land.<\/p>\n

Spent an unexpected hour outside talking with my nice but loquacious neighbor. Turns out that he’s been laid off his job of, like 32 years. He’s a jeweler, and has been making jewelry for the same company, owned by the same family, for his entire professional life. The man is 58 … and it sounds like the owners made some poor decisions and now they’re shutting down operations in Providence. It sucks. I have no idea what to tell him. Further, his wife works at the same place … and she’s been cut back to half time. There’s hope that they may retain her as part of a tiny core that will keep the Providence site open, just a little bit. He’s considering all options, including driving a truck for the city. “I’ve had enough stress to last two careers,” he told me, “it doesn’t seem like a step down, anymore, to punch a clock and take home the dollars.” <\/p>\n

Mowed the lawn for the first time of the year, today. Also observed the entire complement of birds that we get, including: Chickadees, House finches, Gold finches, Cardinals (including the cutest baby cardinal ever), the Downey woodpecker, the Northern Flicker, Pigeons, Morning(sp?) doves, Tufted titmice, and Nuthatches. I’ve got a good birdfeeder these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Got all the plants (the ones that survived the Great Shelf Disaster) into 6 inch pots. Except, of course, for the peppers … because they’re still too freakishly tiny to bother moving. I’m thinking that maybe the marigolds will be in still larger containers by the time the peppers are ready to upgrade … because . . . → Read More: Plants<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}