{"id":2737,"date":"2011-10-06T06:16:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T06:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/?p=2737"},"modified":"2011-10-06T06:16:11","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T06:16:11","slug":"a-woman-on-a-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/?p=2737","title":{"rendered":"A woman on a mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/13.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2738\" title=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/13.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/13-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m on a mission. Well actually if I&#8217;m honest, it&#8217;s a race against time.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been reading the weather forecast and today is going to be THE LAST DAY OF NICE WEATHER.<\/p>\n<p>You know what that means?<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow temperatures will drop&#8230;oooh, 15 degrees, and rain is forecast every day for the forseeable future. Temperatures are going to be dropping quite low. Too near for comfort to that critical temperature, where we could conceivably get some of the unmentionable&#8230;.(I&#8217;ll spell it out. I&#8217;m not tempting fate. S&#8230;..N&#8230;..O&#8230;.W&#8230;). Maybe not quite yet, but before the month is out&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Every year this sends me into a clearing the garden frenzy. I love gardening, but I really hate gardening when the weather is cold and grey and horrible and I hate it even more when I&#8217;m clearing dead and rotting vegetation that has been snowed on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Well just leave it for the spring&#8217;, I hear you cry.<\/p>\n<p>I did that one year. Never again. My poor little spring bulbs &#8211; my shining lights when the days are grey and cold, the markers of the end of a long winter &#8211; were well and truly covered with slimy vegetation and had a devil of a job getting their heads through. I suspect some just turned tail at the sight of the slime and went back to bed.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/21.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2739\" title=\"2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/21.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/21-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So today you will find me cutting back like a mad woman, weeding and tying things back&#8230; and planting bulbs&#8230;.hundreds of &#8217;em&#8230;.and hoping that they will flower in the spring and not just feed the rampant mice colony that lives in my garden (and which clearly outwits poor old Bumble Bee &#8211; there are noticeably fewer tulips these days than when she was younger!).<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say that my next door neighbour has already finished and his garden looks like it&#8217;s been manicured. He took a week off work and it is so perfect that whatever I do is very second rate.<\/p>\n<p>But even sub-standard garden clearing is better than slime and no tulips!<\/p>\n<p>Helen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on a mission. Well actually if I&#8217;m honest, it&#8217;s a race against time. I&#8217;ve been reading the weather forecast and today is going to be THE LAST DAY OF NICE WEATHER. You know what that means? Tomorrow temperatures will drop&#8230;oooh, 15 degrees, and rain is forecast every day for the forseeable future. Temperatures are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQtrc-I9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2737"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2741,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737\/revisions\/2741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}