{"id":2574,"date":"2012-08-04T22:10:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T02:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2012-08-04T22:10:35","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T02:10:35","slug":"summer-respite-and-yards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2574","title":{"rendered":"Summer respite and yards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">W<\/span>e seem to be<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=2575\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2575\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/CRW_8075-150x93.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"A Monarch\" width=\"150\" height=\"93\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2575\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/CRW_8075-150x93.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/CRW_8075-300x187.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/CRW_8075-1024x639.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/CRW_8075.jpg 1957w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> slightly going back to normal temperatures here in SJ: that is, cooler temperatures particularly in the morning. You might say that this Summer was one of the warmest: Even Accuweather seems to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accuweather.com\/en\/weather-news\/summer-2012-in-running-for-hot\/68155\">suggesting the very same<\/a>. If I recall correctly, we had 2 weeks of scorching temperatures and even now, I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;re totally out of troubles yet. But yeah, the temperature changes in the morning (and the dew and our famous fog at that) are refreshing. One could say, I&#8217;m almost ready for Winter.\n<\/p>\n<p>So, the state of the yard is so &#8211; so: This was the first year, I&#8217;ve seen brown grass patches around the yard. Partially, I blame myself for rigorously cutting the grass too low. There seems to be a good part to the story tho: We cut some of the banks and weeds so low that the wild berry bushes and thistles have been thriving which in turn attracted a lot more &#8216;good&#8217; insects (bees and monarchs) to our backyard. I believe last year I mentioned I would never take down thistles as they literally serve as &#8216;lunch rooms&#8217; for foraging working bees. This year the same holds true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We seem to be slightly going back to normal temperatures here in SJ: that is, cooler temperatures particularly in the morning. You might say that this Summer was one of the warmest: Even Accuweather seems to be suggesting the very &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2574\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301],"tags":[350,302],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}