Away from this site for the past week at least.\u00a0 I have been taking care of things outside with the garden and preparing an herb garden.\u00a0 Those tasks just take time away from the little things.\u00a0 We have peppers, tomatoes, okra and squash growing in the garden so far.\u00a0 The herb garden is taking a little longer as we need fill dirt and some more boundary rocks before it is planting time.\u00a0 Two loads of mulch later the yard is looking much better.\u00a0 A large maple tree was cut down this week in the front yard as it had died on one side and was threatening to fall onto our house.\u00a0 I hated to cut down a huge tree, especially since it gave much needed shade in the afternoon sun but I also didn’t want to repair a roof.\u00a0\u00a0 Now we are looking for fast-growing shade replacement for that area.\u00a0 Hybrid poplars and weeping willows are being considered.<\/p>\n

In the cooking department I haven’t created anything earth-shaking lately.\u00a0 The past week has consited of spaghetti marinara and tempeh sausage.\u00a0\u00a0 Red beans and rice,\u00a0 roasted corn and macaroni and “cheese” and the usual veggie burgers (Amy’s are the best).\u00a0\u00a0 My wife did make coconut-lime cupcakes, those are always earth-shaking. \u00a0 I owe someone a recipe and\/or batch of eggless cornbread.\u00a0 I’ll get to that one soon.<\/p>\n

Other than those small things nothing much going on.<\/p>\n

We do have fresh kittens, more on that later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Away from this site for the past week at least.\u00a0 I have been taking care of things outside with the garden and preparing an herb garden.\u00a0 Those tasks just take time away from the little things.\u00a0 We have peppers, tomatoes, okra and squash growing in the garden so far.\u00a0 The herb garden is taking a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[465,476],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-gardening","tag-food","tag-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nashveggie.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nashveggie.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nashveggie.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nashveggie.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nashveggie.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nashveggie.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"https:\/\/nashveggie.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nashveggie.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nashveggie.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nashveggie.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}