{"id":485,"date":"2009-06-30T12:18:20","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T12:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/?p=485"},"modified":"2009-06-30T12:18:20","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T12:18:20","slug":"working-vacation-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/?p=485","title":{"rendered":"working vacation stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><b>Hours worked in the yard:<\/b> 7 1\/2.<\/li>\n<li><b>Flower beds de-leaved:<\/b> 2.<\/li>\n<li><b>Piles of leaves\/sticks\/whatever previously created that were mulched:<\/b> 8.<\/li>\n<li><b>Beds that were completely filled:<\/b> 2.<\/li>\n<li><b>Beds incompletely filled:<\/b> 2.<\/li>\n<li><b>Bags of leaf-based mulch created:<\/b> approximately 20.<\/li>\n<li><b>Retail value of said bags:<\/b> probably around $60.<\/li>\n<li><b>Bags of stick-based mulch created:<\/b> 2.<\/li>\n<li><b>Retail value of said bags:<\/b> probably around $15.<\/li>\n<li><b>Value of having the leaves they were created from gone from the yard:<\/b> much more than $75.<\/li>\n<li><b>Kiddie pools used to hold stick-based mulch:<\/b> 1.<\/li>\n<li><b>Of the chipper and shredder, number of features I&#8217;m happy with on the new tool:<\/b> 1.  <i>(Ed: The chipper takes way too long to deal with &#8211; lots of clogging to have to work around.  Or maybe I just don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m doing.)<\/i><\/li>\n<li><b>Mosquito bites:<\/b> 2. (The yard spray works!)<\/li>\n<li><b>Yellow jacket nests found:<\/b> 1. (Luckily, I wasn&#8217;t stung.)<\/li>\n<li><b>Hottest temperature worked in:<\/b> 97 degrees.<\/li>\n<li><b>Rocks accidentally put down the shredder chute:<\/b> over 500, counting pebbles.<\/li>\n<li><b>Times I stopped the machine just to clear out rocks from the shredder chute:<\/b> 3.<\/li>\n<li><b>How much better the back yard looks, in terms of percentage:<\/b> 90%.  (I still need to get pine straw or mulch down around my trees, and there&#8217;s still too many overgrown and weedy areas for my taste, but at least the piles of junk are gone. Overall, very pleased with the outcome of the time spent.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hours worked in the yard: 7 1\/2. Flower beds de-leaved: 2. Piles of leaves\/sticks\/whatever previously created that were mulched: 8. Beds that were completely filled: 2. Beds incompletely filled: 2. Bags of leaf-based mulch created: approximately 20. Retail value of said bags: probably around $60. Bags of stick-based mulch created: 2. Retail value of said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}