{"id":10566,"date":"2024-01-09T05:14:24","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T10:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=10566"},"modified":"2024-01-09T20:35:30","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T01:35:30","slug":"tues-jan-9-2024-school-days-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2024\/01\/09\/tues-jan-9-2024-school-days-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Tues. Jan. 9, 2024 &#8211; school days again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cold and damp, but supposed to be clear today. Had all the weather yesterday- warm, cold, windy, wet, sunny, and dry&#8230;  Just depended on where and when you were.<\/p>\n<p>I did my pickups without incident.  Stopped by my auctioneer and got approval to bring stuff by today.  I&#8217;ll have to go to my storage unit and load up&#8230; and clear out the foyer.  That will make the wife happier, as GS cookie season is going to start soon, and SHE&#8217;LL need the space.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve decided that I can&#8217;t arm wave it away anymore-  I&#8217;ve got an animal living in my wall in the laundry room.   It pushed the dryer vent out to get access, or maybe to escape when I initially walled it in with the poison blocks, a couple of months ago.    It&#8217;s coming and going freely, and hasn&#8217;t died, so I&#8217;m betting on possum, not rat, at this point.   It&#8217;s driving the dog nuts.   I didn&#8217;t want to believe it, because I couldn&#8217;t figure out how it got in the wall alive, but now that I know the vent has been compromised, it makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>Time to move and bait the live trap again.  Then fix the vent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Probably time to do the bug spray around the foundation too.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Nothing to report from the dentist visit, except that he&#8217;s planting 1 acre of veg garden this year.  That&#8217;s at his country property.   He runs some cattle too, probably for the ag exemption on property tax.   He&#8217;s still got woods when all the surrounding wind break wooded patches are being turned into housing, so he&#8217;s getting all the deer.   He&#8217;s got a \u2018herd\u2019 on his land now, and a problem with poachers.  If the trucks stop rolling, his problem will briefly get very intense, then there won&#8217;t be any more deer for the poachers to poach.  Which is, btw, what I expect to happen anywhere there are rifles and pickup trucks, good ol boys and deer.  <\/p>\n<p>Given their nature, there should still be pigs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Since I don&#8217;t hunt, or fish, or garden, at least not with any real success, I&#8217;m stacking cans. <\/p>\n<p>Do I need to mention that you should too?<\/p>\n<p>nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cold and damp, but supposed to be clear today. Had all the weather yesterday- warm, cold, windy, wet, sunny, and dry&#8230;  Just depended on where and when you were.<\/p>\n<p>I did my pickups without incident.  Stopped by my auctioneer and got approval to bring stuff by today.  I&#8217;ll have to go to my storage unit and load up&#8230; and clear out the foyer.  That will make the wife happier, as GS cookie season is going to start soon,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2024\/01\/09\/tues-jan-9-2024-school-days-again\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Tues. Jan. 9, 2024 &#8211; school days again &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,15,83,85,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-batteries","category-culture","category-decline-and-fall","category-march-to-war","category-prepping-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10567,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10566\/revisions\/10567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}