{"id":9947,"date":"2013-03-17T17:51:13","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T22:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/?p=9947"},"modified":"2021-09-08T17:30:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T23:30:50","slug":"new-muscles-and-new-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/2013\/03\/17\/new-muscles-and-new-life\/","title":{"rendered":"New Muscles and New Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9952\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9952\" style=\"width: 648px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/2013\/03\/17\/new-muscles-and-new-life\/peach-03-17-13a\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9952\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9952\" src=\"http:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/peach-03-17-13a.jpg\" alt=\"The peach blossom, like this one in my south pasture, is one of the most beautiful greetings from springtime.\" width=\"648\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/peach-03-17-13a.jpg 648w, https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/peach-03-17-13a-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9952\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The peach blossom, like this one in my south pasture, is one of the most beautiful greetings from springtime.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was cool and dry out today, and I am over my flu-like illness from last week, so I decided to work outside. My work included&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">Mowing the front yard; the henbit and early grass was higher in patches than the Chihuahuas<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Digging out the garden in the south pasture, which led to&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Firing up the old tiller so I wouldn&#8217;t have to dig it all by hand, which led to&#8230;\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_9953\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9953\" style=\"width: 648px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/2013\/03\/17\/new-muscles-and-new-life\/plum-03-17-13a\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9953\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9953 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/plum-03-17-13a.jpg\" alt=\"I found these blossoms on one of my new plum trees. If fruit appears, I will remove it, since it is best not to let a fruit tree bear for the first three years.\" width=\"648\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/plum-03-17-13a.jpg 648w, https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/plum-03-17-13a-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9953\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I found these blossoms on one of my new plum trees. If fruit appears, I will remove it, since it is best not to let a fruit tree bear for the first three years.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n<li>Driving to town to buy a new tiller, since the old one&#8217;s primer bulb was broken, and I never liked that tiller anyway.<\/li>\n<li>I got the new one assembled and fired up, then tilled the garden for over an hour. The tines kept getting choked with grass.<\/li>\n<li>Put the tiller away and hauled all the trash down our 100-yard-long driveway to the curb. It was two weeks worth of trash since I was sick last weekend.<\/li>\n<li>Grabbed a camera and photographed some of the young growth on some of our trees, which, despite the subdued light, were very beautiful to me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All this activity woke up some of my muscles, ones I haven&#8217;t used since at least October. I&#8217;m a pretty active person, but my mowing muscles, my tilling muscles, and especially my pulling-the-starter-cord muscles, which got extra work trying to revive the dead tiller, become dormant in the winter. It felt really good.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I need to till again tomorrow, then rake and sift the soil to remove all that grass, but I got an excellent start today.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9954\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9954\" style=\"width: 648px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/2013\/03\/17\/new-muscles-and-new-life\/henbit-03-17-13a\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9954\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9954\" src=\"http:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/henbit-03-17-13a.jpg\" alt=\"Henbit fills our yard and pasture for the first weeks of spring, then dies back for the rest of the year.\" width=\"648\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/henbit-03-17-13a.jpg 648w, https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/henbit-03-17-13a-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9954\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henbit fills our yard and pasture for the first weeks of spring, then dies back for the rest of the year.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was cool and dry out today, and I am over my flu-like illness from last week, so I decided to work outside. My work included&#8230; Mowing the front yard; the henbit and early grass was higher in patches than the Chihuahuas Digging out the garden in the south pasture, which led to&#8230; Firing up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-our-patch-of-green-in-oklahoma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9947"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28550,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9947\/revisions\/28550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}