{"id":1941,"date":"2010-06-11T19:38:10","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T02:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1941"},"modified":"2010-06-15T19:42:31","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T02:42:31","slug":"mulch-dirt-and-gardens-and-a-picture-for-june-11-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1941","title":{"rendered":"Mulch, Dirt, and Gardens &#8230; and a Picture for June 11, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1942\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1942\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1942\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?attachment_id=1942\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1942\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?attachment_id=1942\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_3027.jpg?fit=1600%2C1200&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1600,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Stocking Up On Mulch\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;The City of Pocatello makes available the wood chips from their tree trimming activities to any who want it, first come, first serve. The other day a pretty big pile appeared and off we went on Friday afternoon to stock up on the mulch. Nina has plans to do some &amp;#8220;lasagna gardening&amp;#8221; in the southwest corner of the back yard. Big plans. The wood chips are an important part of this process. I&amp;#8217;m looking forward to seeing how all this will work. We made three trips to the mulch pile filling up three trash cans and two big buckets each trip, and piling the result in the backyard to be used in the new venture. We were both quite tired out by the end of the third trip!&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Stocking Up On Mulch&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_3027.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_3027.jpg?fit=604%2C453&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1942\" title=\"Stocking Up On Mulch\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_3027.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Stocking Up On Mulch\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_3027.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_3027.jpg?resize=150%2C112&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_3027.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_3027.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_3027.jpg?w=1208&amp;ssl=1 1208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1942\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stocking Up On Mulch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We had our usual morning at the Idaho Falls Temple and finished our shift about noon. The nice thing about this time of the year is that we actually have some daylight when we arrive at the Temple. It doesn&#8217;t last very many weeks, though, as the Summer Equinox is almost upon us.<\/p>\n<p>Nina has decided to do some &#8220;<a title=\"link to Nina's blog on lasagna gardening\" href=\"http:\/\/ninablog.rnsmith.com\/?p=530\" target=\"_blank\">lasagna gardening<\/a>&#8221; this year. So we spent the afternoon gathering some of the material she needs for this new activity. The weather was nice and we were both pretty tired by the end of the day. Fridays are very often very long days after getting up at about 3:45 am and going to bed around 10:30 pm that evening.<\/p>\n<p>TTFN!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had our usual morning at the Idaho Falls Temple and finished our shift about noon. The nice thing about this time of the year is that we actually have some daylight when we arrive at the Temple. It doesn&#8217;t last very many weeks, though, as the Summer Equinox is almost upon us. Nina has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1941\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mulch, Dirt, and Gardens &#8230; and a Picture for June 11, 2010<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pnKxs-vj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}