{"id":60,"date":"2006-05-08T19:51:16","date_gmt":"2006-05-09T03:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelandofka.com\/?p=60"},"modified":"2006-05-08T19:51:16","modified_gmt":"2006-05-09T03:51:16","slug":"yard-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelandofka.com\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"Yard Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Tis the season for sore backs and sunburns!\u00a0 We started hot and heavy into yard work this weekend.\u00a0 By \u201cwe\u201d I mean Brian mostly.\u00a0 Brian is putting in a stone border around the mulched areas in the front yard, and we are also planting some new bushes and annual flowers.\u00a0 It will of course look stellar when it is completed, but a lot of work goes into it.\u00a0 Hopefully by the grace of God these bushes and plants will survive, since most of our plantings last spring died a slow horrific death.\u00a0 Apparently they require water…and fertilizer…and no deer or bunnies\u00a0eating the crap out of them.<\/font><\/p>\n

It is hard for yard work to be a combined effort when you have kids.\u00a0 Kai is pretty good and occasionally helps until he realizes how much effort goes into it.\u00a0 He will then toddle off to\u00a0his bike or “help” by running off with all the garden tools.\u00a0 Anya\u00a0requires constant attention to make sure she doesn\u2019t eat the mulch, grass and poisonous berries.<\/font><\/p>\n

Generally I will glance over to look at her and she is either sucking on a giant piece of mulch (choking hazard), eating some grass (extra fiber \u2013 she didn\u2019t like so much) or grasping a berry in each hand (Poison Control 1-800-222-1222).\u00a0 It is a miracle second children survive.\u00a0 Kai was rarely left to his own devices and was watched like a hawk, and Anya is quite used roaming the prairie free as a bird with little to no supervision.\u00a0 We do watch to make sure she doesn’t go play in the street, though.\u00a0 There are limits.<\/font><\/p>\n

Another big difference:\u00a0 The Dirt Factor.\u00a0 Kai does not like to get dirt on his hands.\u00a0 Example:\u00a0 I took the tarp off of their sandbox, which apparently got pretty wet regardless of the cover.\u00a0 If you dug down into the wet sand, the water would pool.\u00a0 I dug into it and was trying to show Kai how to build a sand castle.\u00a0 Anya was gleefully playing in the sandy water — getting all wet and dirty.\u00a0 Kai decided to try to do the same and got this distasteful look on his face and proceeded to tell me that we had to go inside to clean off his hands.\u00a0 Hopefully he gets over this aversion soon or he may be getting teased quite a bit.<\/font><\/p>\n

We also managed to run to Eau Claire to celebrate our 8th<\/sup> Anniversary at the Otter Creek Inn.\u00a0 Kai and Anya got to spend some quality time at the farm and we got to spend some quality time together.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a picture of us at Mona Lisa\u2019s where we had some good food and good wine:<\/font><\/p>\n

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\u2018Tis the season for sore backs and sunburns!\u00a0 We started hot and heavy into yard work this weekend.\u00a0 By \u201cwe\u201d I mean Brian mostly.\u00a0 Brian is putting in a stone border around the mulched areas in the front yard, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids","category-prince-kailan","category-princess-anya"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbJHf-Y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelandofka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelandofka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelandofka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelandofka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelandofka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelandofka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelandofka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelandofka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelandofka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}