{"id":5352,"date":"2011-05-16T13:43:44","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T17:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=5352"},"modified":"2011-05-16T17:27:47","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T21:27:47","slug":"busy-busy-busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=5352","title":{"rendered":"busy busy busy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life is insane here these days.  A couple years ago, we decided that if we ever have any hope of retiring, we have to make our land pay its way.  We only have 2 acres, but here in New York State, we are infamous for our high tax rates, a reputation fairly earned, and one that seems unlikely to be rehabilitated anytime soon.  So, in our quest to achieve a higher degree of food independence, by raising more of it ourselves on those highly taxes acres, we decided this was<em> <strong>the time<\/strong><\/em> to dive into a few projects we&#8217;d been putting off for the last 30 years or so.  Like starting a fruit orchard.  And an asparagus bed.  Plus we decided to get some chickens again, after a hiatus of about 10 years.  I also started all of our veggie plants from seed, as well as some of the perennials and annuals I&#8217;ll be planting this summer.  As always, my garden [as in, the decorative one] continues to expand.    <\/p>\n<p>This photo of a vinca flower twining through an emerging &#8216;Kabitan&#8217; hosta has absolutely nothing to do with any of this.  I just like it.<a href=\"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/kabitan_vinca.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/kabitan_vinca.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"kabitan_vinca\" width=\"600\" height=\"437\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5353\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/kabitan_vinca.jpg 600w, http:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/kabitan_vinca-150x109.jpg 150w, http:\/\/dlynz.com\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/kabitan_vinca-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Insane life?  Yes.  But also a very satisfying one.  Happy Spring!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life is insane here these days. A couple years ago, we decided that if we ever have any hope of retiring, we have to make our land pay its way. We only have 2 acres, but here in New York &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=5352\">Continue reading <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":[11,5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5352"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5352"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5360,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5352\/revisions\/5360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}