{"id":1000,"date":"2007-11-04T11:48:35","date_gmt":"2007-11-04T16:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1000"},"modified":"2007-11-04T14:46:02","modified_gmt":"2007-11-04T19:46:02","slug":"adventures-in-home-ownershipcontinued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1000","title":{"rendered":"Adventures In Home Ownership&#8230;(continued)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thoughts that crossed my mind as I was doing lawn work this morning&#8230;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Even if your property consists merely of 1 tenth of 1 percent of 1quarter of 1 acre, nine-tenths of your work around the house will consist of biomass control.<\/li>\n<li>Ivy must come from some other planet.&nbsp; It grows even in a drought.&nbsp; The rest of your lawn could be dead, it could be turning to dust, and the ivy will still be growing.&nbsp; And it always grows in the direction you don&#8217;t want it growing toward, and will reliably ignore the territory you are willing to let it have.<\/li>\n<li>Adjusting the anti-squirrel defenses on your bird feeders only raises the intelligence level of the neighborhood squirrels.&nbsp; You are not keeping them away from your feeders, you are training them to solve complex problems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n[Update&#8230;]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bird spit is amazing stuff.&nbsp; That&#8217;s Spit, not Shit.&nbsp; Bird SPIT.&nbsp; Ever wonder how those tiny little nests made of nothing but small sticks and twigs manage to stay intact during a thunder storm?&nbsp; It&#8217;s the damn spit they use to hold everything together.&nbsp; The barn swallow nests in the parking garage at the Institute are amazing things&#8230;tacked literally on the concrete walls by nothing more then dirt and swallow spit.&nbsp; Never mind bird droppings, try cleaning a bunch of old seeds all stuck together by bird spit off the bottom of your bird feeders.&nbsp; It&#8217;s <em>Work<\/em>!&nbsp; If humans could spit glue like birds, we&#8217;d probably never have invented nails.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thoughts that crossed my mind as I was doing lawn work this morning&#8230;. Even if your property consists merely of 1 tenth of 1 percent of 1quarter of 1 acre, nine-tenths of your work around the house will consist of biomass control. Ivy must come from some other planet.&nbsp; It grows even in a drought.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-uncategorized","tag-this-and-that"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}