{"id":790,"date":"2009-10-08T15:45:30","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T22:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=790"},"modified":"2009-10-08T15:45:30","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T22:45:30","slug":"janes-been-on-the-roof-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/janes-been-on-the-roof-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Jane&#8217;s been on the roof again&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gutter cleaning. We got a couple of wheelbarrow loads of compost out of it: gutter-guard keeps the big stuff out, and the chaff composts really nicely. Darn the luck.<\/p>\n<p>I meanwhile hauled out the garbage, the recyclables, and the yard clippings, and clipped the roses back pretty severely, piling mulch over them. We&#8217;re due for a 20 degree night.<\/p>\n<p>OSG told us a pond near Joan lost its koi to\u00a0a raccoon. We&#8217;re going after some repellant. But I think one may already have tried and failed with our guys. A koi site says that a raccoon will not swim after fish, because it can&#8217;t catch them that way, but will stand on the bank and try to claw one to it. Well, our bank is a little steep, it is rocky, and the koi in cold weather prefer to be down deep, under, moreover, the hyacinth-ring (a floating ring that keeps water hyacinth out of the filter. We came out to find a plant ripped out, near the shore, and one hyacinth very improbably floating on its own where the plant had been&#8212;and we&#8217;re a little suspicious a night-raiding raccoon may have taken an unplanned bath. We still have all our koi. But we are taking no chances, and are getting the repellant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gutter cleaning. We got a couple of wheelbarrow loads of compost out of it: gutter-guard keeps the big stuff out, and the chaff composts really nicely. Darn the luck. I meanwhile hauled out the garbage, the recyclables, and the yard clippings, and clipped the roses back pretty severely, piling mulch over them. We&#8217;re due for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[28,35,30],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-jane-fancher","tag-koi","tag-spokane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}