{"id":1711,"date":"2013-04-28T05:57:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T12:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenhopeessences.com\/wordpress\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2013-04-28T05:57:45","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T12:57:45","slug":"spring-bustle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/?p=1711","title":{"rendered":"Spring Bustle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To catch up on news from the farm\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the bear returned. I saw the bear and the bear saw me.  <\/p>\n<p>He WAS big. <\/p>\n<p>He returned the only night I decided to forgo the all night radio treatment.  I heard him before he had done more than rip apart the winter covering on the healthiest beehive. Mercifully, he ran off when I started yelling at him. He did not look in need of a meal. In fact he looked very very wide of girth- but also spectacularly beautiful.  If he wasn&#8217;t so intent on wrecking our beehives I would be quite enamored of the big guy. <\/p>\n<p>The Roses all arrived from various Rose growers all over the US. No one sent what I ordered, but in that way of the Angels (and apparently Rose growers), I got beautiful Roses that felt perfect even if unexpected. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenhopeessences.com\/wordpress\/wp-contents\/upload\/2013\/04\/img-7542.jpg\" height=\"384\" width=\"288\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"IMG_7542\" title=\"IMG_7542\" \/><br \/>\nLaura and May May helped to plant them all. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenhopeessences.com\/wordpress\/wp-contents\/upload\/2013\/04\/img-7545.jpg\" height=\"448\" width=\"336\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"IMG_7545\" title=\"IMG_7545\" \/><br \/>\n Baby Grace came out to oversee the whole operation.  I can tell she is going to love weeding as she already loves ripping up grass.<br \/>\nYesterday we got a load of mulch.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenhopeessences.com\/wordpress\/wp-contents\/upload\/2013\/04\/img-7554.jpg\" height=\"448\" width=\"336\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"IMG_7554\" title=\"IMG_7554\" \/><br \/>\nLots and <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenhopeessences.com\/wordpress\/wp-contents\/upload\/2013\/04\/img-7556.jpg\" height=\"512\" width=\"384\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"IMG_7556\" title=\"IMG_7556\" \/><br \/>\nLots of mulch.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenhopeessences.com\/wordpress\/wp-contents\/upload\/2013\/04\/img-7560.jpg\" height=\"576\" width=\"432\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"IMG_7560\" title=\"IMG_7560\" \/><br \/>\nPerhaps Grace is a bit too young to help spread all this mulch, but I am sure she will be in the middle of it all enjoying all the bustle of wheelbarrows on the go and the warmth, at long last, of spring sun. <\/p>\n<p>PS I am going to try and post lots of photos of the Flowers on Facebook this growing season so check that out if you want to see what is blooming here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To catch up on news from the farm\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Yes, the bear returned. I saw the bear and the bear saw me. He WAS big. He returned the only night I decided to forgo the all night radio treatment. I heard him before he had done more than rip apart the winter covering on the healthiest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/?p=1711\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spring Bustle<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}