{"id":3612,"date":"2016-08-16T13:14:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T17:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fritchman.com\/journal\/?p=3612"},"modified":"2016-08-16T13:15:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T17:15:40","slug":"tuesday-august-16-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fritchman.com\/journal\/?p=3612","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday August 16, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walmart.com\/ip\/Flexrake-LRB190-13-Fruit-Picker\/23501838?action=product_interest&amp;action_type=title&amp;item_id=23501838&amp;placement_id=irs-106-t1&amp;strategy=PWVUB&amp;visitor_id&amp;category=&amp;client_guid=3446fcdc-c97f-4043-816f-bb8e85820825&amp;customer_id_enc&amp;config_id=106&amp;parent_item_id=23501839&amp;parent_anchor_item_id=23501839&amp;guid=aa29b9f1-83aa-4431-ac5c-4e90552afe70&amp;bucket_id=irsbucketdefault&amp;beacon_version=1.0.1&amp;findingMethod=p13n\">fruit picker<\/a> came today. It worked great once I got the hang of knocking the apples off with the without getting hung up in the leaves and branches. It has a telescoping handle to allow me to get to some of the higher apples but so long I cannot control the picker. It will really come in handy next year after I trim off the low hanging branches that I can now reach from the ground but are in James&#8217; way when he mows.<\/p>\n<p>We are working on kit stuff today. Colin has been out several times to play Frisbee. It&#8217;s was very warm and sunny this morning but it looks like it&#8217;s going to pour any minute. While we were downstairs putting together chemical bags Colin was stretched out full length on the cool cement floor taking a nap and being off duty; a very rare occurrence even at night when he is sleeping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My fruit picker came today. It worked great once I got the hang of knocking the apples off with the without getting hung up in the leaves and branches. It has a telescoping handle to allow me to get to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fritchman.com\/journal\/?p=3612\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritchman.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritchman.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritchman.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritchman.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritchman.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3612"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritchman.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3614,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritchman.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions\/3614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritchman.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritchman.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritchman.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}