{"id":443,"date":"2023-04-06T09:24:56","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T13:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/othalaacres.com\/?p=443"},"modified":"2023-04-06T09:25:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T13:25:35","slug":"spring-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/othalaacres.com\/?p=443","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-medium is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/othalaacres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/elderberry-starts.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/othalaacres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/elderberry-starts.jpg?resize=182%2C182&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-444\" width=\"182\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/othalaacres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/elderberry-starts.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/othalaacres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/elderberry-starts.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/othalaacres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/elderberry-starts.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/othalaacres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/elderberry-starts.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/othalaacres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/elderberry-starts.jpg?resize=144%2C144&amp;ssl=1 144w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/othalaacres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/elderberry-starts.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 182px) 100vw, 182px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Spring has finally arrived here in the Shire&#8230; for real this time! Sadly, our bees did not survive the winter, but we will try again. There are a couple dozen Dominique eggs in the incubator, and the Rollers are setting eggs as well. I started 20 cuttings from our elderberry bushes, and all but 6 are doing very well. <br>I&#8217;ll be starting some seeds for the gardens as well&#8230; flowers, herbs and vegetables.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year&#8217;s agenda includes building a new chicken coop. Our current coop is well over 20 years old and showing it&#8217;s age badly. I&#8217;ll post updates on how that project is going once the ground is dry enough to get started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring has finally arrived here in the Shire&#8230; for real this time! Sadly, our bees did not survive the winter, but we will try again. There are a couple dozen Dominique eggs in the incubator, and the Rollers are setting eggs as well. I started 20 cuttings from our elderberry bushes, and all but 6 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/othalaacres.com\/?p=443\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spring 2023<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bees","category-gardening","category-poultry","category-update"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/othalaacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/othalaacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/othalaacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/othalaacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/othalaacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/othalaacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/othalaacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/othalaacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/othalaacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/othalaacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}