{"id":7046,"date":"2014-03-10T05:00:58","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T10:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=7046"},"modified":"2016-09-08T14:28:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T19:28:18","slug":"weekend-shenanigans-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=7046","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Shenanigans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DSC_0012\" href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3528\/13041232415_de9493465c.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3528\/13041232415_de9493465c_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0012\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here we are, on the cusp of something I imagine will turn into spring- waking up to an earlier light, only to freeze walking out into the cold morning air, afternoons warm enough to go without a jacket (but only in the sun), piles of snow still in places around us. I walk in a daze, stunned by what feels like a lifetime of winter, going through the motions of yard work even though the ground under the raked leaves remains frozen to the core, un-rakable.\u00a0<a title=\"DSC_0020\" href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3252\/13041599494_8bdd2f6dba.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3252\/13041599494_8bdd2f6dba_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0020\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0066\" href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3160\/13041652164_d0a9c7a167.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3160\/13041652164_d0a9c7a167_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0066\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0084\" href=\"http:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7412\/13041309385_6bbe2d0b7f.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7412\/13041309385_6bbe2d0b7f_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0084\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0098\" href=\"http:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7303\/13041459973_26ac9cac8b.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7303\/13041459973_26ac9cac8b_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0098\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0103\" href=\"http:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7430\/13041325635_997a4ebb34.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7430\/13041325635_997a4ebb34_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0103\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0115\" href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3766\/13041469623_b98f07b17d.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3766\/13041469623_b98f07b17d_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0115\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0123\" href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3318\/13041343865_cd7291f8bb.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3318\/13041343865_cd7291f8bb_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0123\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0056\" href=\"http:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7353\/13041427543_161cb938e7.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7353\/13041427543_161cb938e7_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0056\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0015\" href=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2059\/13041234955_a772e598f7.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2059\/13041234955_a772e598f7_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0015\" \/><\/a>This weekend held the joy that is unique to early spring- the jolt of energy and frenzy we feel when we shake away the dust of winter, ready to take on piles of work and preparations for a garden we hope will be even better than last year. Happy March, everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we are, on the cusp of something I imagine will turn into spring- waking up to an earlier light, only to freeze walking out into the cold morning air, afternoons warm enough to go without a jacket (but only in the sun), piles of snow still in places around us. I walk in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=7046\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekend Shenanigans&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,99,185],"tags":[115,173,48],"class_list":["post-7046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-green-living","category-stlouis","tag-garden","tag-green-living","tag-motherhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7046"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11789,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7046\/revisions\/11789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}