{"id":3975,"date":"2020-09-01T11:35:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T18:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/?p=3975"},"modified":"2020-09-01T11:35:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T18:35:53","slug":"a-completely-irrelevant-aside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/?p=3975","title":{"rendered":"A Completely Irrelevant Aside"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I just wanted to point out the current absurdity of life at the farm. As I have mentioned before, we are renovating our small barn into a cute and compact home for Elizabeth and her two children. I use the pronoun we loosely as Jim has done the lion&#8217;s share of the work, putting in 70 straight &#8220;summer vacation&#8221; days doing carpentry work before returning to his day job as a school teacher).  Lizzie and co. currently live in the farmhouse with us, but once the renovation is complete, they will live fifty feet from us ( and here is the key point to the town&#8217;s zoning board) AND USE A DIFFERENT TOILET.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There will be no increase in toilet use or toilet &#8220;material&#8221; so to speak, but this move from one toilet to another means we&#8217;ve had to have our front gardens dug up, our side yard down by the blueberries dug up and our hayfield dug up for a new septic system- because new regulations require new tanks, new drainage materials etc etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I type, two excavators, a bulldozer, a dump truck and a jackhammer are in use here. How do you spell SERENITY?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is the excavator  poised to begin its work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/wp-contents\/upload\/2020\/09\/IMG_3916.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3978\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/wp-contents\/upload\/2020\/09\/IMG_3916.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/wp-contents\/upload\/2020\/09\/IMG_3916-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is the scenic view from the Venus garden overlooking the smaller excavator at work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/wp-contents\/upload\/2020\/09\/IMG_3987.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3979\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/wp-contents\/upload\/2020\/09\/IMG_3987.jpg 360w, https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/wp-contents\/upload\/2020\/09\/IMG_3987-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is the lovely pastoral view of the septic construction five minutes ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/wp-contents\/upload\/2020\/09\/IMG_3993.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/wp-contents\/upload\/2020\/09\/IMG_3993.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/wp-contents\/upload\/2020\/09\/IMG_3993-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is an impervious Monarch butterfly giving me today&#8217;s moment of Zen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/wp-contents\/upload\/2020\/09\/IMG_3960.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/wp-contents\/upload\/2020\/09\/IMG_3960.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/wp-contents\/upload\/2020\/09\/IMG_3960-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just wanted to point out the current absurdity of life at the farm. As I have mentioned before, we are renovating our small barn into a cute and compact home for Elizabeth and her two children. I use the pronoun we loosely as Jim has done the lion&#8217;s share of the work, putting in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/?p=3975\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Completely Irrelevant Aside<\/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-3975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975","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=3975"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3984,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975\/revisions\/3984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}