{"id":6252,"date":"2020-04-18T05:25:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T09:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=6252"},"modified":"2020-04-18T12:21:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T16:21:49","slug":"sat-april-18-2020-ah-the-weekend-finally-some-time-at-home-with-the-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2020\/04\/18\/sat-april-18-2020-ah-the-weekend-finally-some-time-at-home-with-the-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Sat. April 18, 2020 &#8211; ah the weekend, finally some time at home with the family&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":" <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Warm and damp, chance of rain. [I was WRONG, 68F!]<br \/><br \/>Yesterday was ominous and oppressive all day. Sweaty.<br \/><br \/>I did get a bunch of stuff done outside but I was definitely hot and wet doing it.<br \/><br \/>I cut the grass. I planted all that I could, based on the TX A&amp;M ag extension guide for our region. That amounted to acorn squash, watermelon, zucchini, and cucumbers. This year I put the zukes and cukes in separate beds. No mutant giant bitter weird cross breeds this year. I didn&#8217;t have the right kind of peas, and I missed my chance for beans. I can still do a bit of salad greens in the window boxes, and maybe replant the radishes which haven&#8217;t sprouted. Other than that, I&#8217;m done planting until September.<br \/><br \/>Texas is going to try to reopen over the next few weeks. Schools will remain closed through the end of our normal year. Don&#8217;t know what that will mean for our swim team and our pool. A lot of smaller community based orgs are going to have a real hard time raising money and paying the bills. Hopefully we won&#8217;t have an increase in rate of infection. Texas has been managing so far, and Houston isn&#8217;t predicted to ever exceed our ICU capacity. This is mainly because they&#8217;ve kicked everyone else out, and built new temporary capacity.<\/p>\r\n<p>Dinner was kielbasa sausage from the freezer, one large turnip from the last run, cubed and boiled, and 5 potatoes cubed and fried in my cast iron fryer pan.\u00a0 Daughter 2 loves the fried potatoes.\u00a0 &#8220;Best dinner of the virus lockdown.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;m glad she likes it.<br \/><br \/>I&#8217;d love for this to be over, but it&#8217;s not. It is still expanding and growing. The second wave is starting to spread through asia and china, and the third world is starting to show some real issues.<br \/><br \/>Stay home, stay safe,<br \/><br \/>nick<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Warm and damp, chance of rain. [I was WRONG, 68F!]<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday was ominous and oppressive all day. Sweaty.<\/p>\n<p>I did get a bunch of stuff done outside but I was definitely hot and wet doing it.<\/p>\n<p>I cut the grass. I planted all that I could, based on the TX A&amp;M ag extension guide for our region. That amounted to acorn squash, watermelon, zucchini, and cucumbers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2020\/04\/18\/sat-april-18-2020-ah-the-weekend-finally-some-time-at-home-with-the-family\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Sat. April 18, 2020 &#8211; ah the weekend, finally some time at home with the family&#8230; &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":[56,80,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","category-random-stuff","category-wuflu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252","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=6252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}