{"id":3789,"date":"2014-10-18T13:54:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T20:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/?p=3789"},"modified":"2014-10-18T13:54:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T20:54:04","slug":"getting-ready-for-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/archives\/3789","title":{"rendered":"Getting ready for winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we did a lot of things that anticipate the changing of the seasons. While it&#8217;s still in the mid-80s during the day, the nights are dipping into the 40s, and a frost could be around the corner.<\/p>\n<p>First, we finished the repairs on the driveway after the post-Odile floods. This ended up entailing bringing in a whole truckload of gravel. In addition to fixing the damage, we filled the depression near the gate that always fills with water when it rains.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"vine-embed\" src=\"https:\/\/vine.co\/v\/OqUt2Al7eQr\/embed\/simple?related=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the garden, we cleaned out some beds and got our garlic planted. (Separate post coming on that.) I planted a few leeks and some winter lettuce; am hoping to get fava beans in this week. We&#8217;re also disconnecting the drip irrigation and going to hand watering for winter. (Connected hoses can freeze and break pipes.)<\/p>\n<p>We finished processing apples. Yay! We&#8217;re both a bit sick of them. We have found some new delights to make with apples though, including an apple french onion dip that was amazing.<\/p>\n<p>On the houses, I worked on resealing the door frames on both houses. The combination of hot sun, gusty winds, and blowing dust is quite hard on things here.<\/p>\n<p>We had more rain a week ago and are supposed to get yet more this week. It almost seems as though we&#8217;ve finally gotten enough rain, but I&#8217;m not complaining.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.vine.co\/static\/scripts\/embed.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we did a lot of things that anticipate the changing of the seasons. While it&#8217;s still in the mid-80s during the day, the nights are dipping into the 40s, and a frost could be around the corner. First, we finished the repairs on the driveway after the post-Odile floods. This ended up entailing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[73,28],"class_list":["post-3789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-garden","tag-weather"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}