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<\/a><\/p>\nWe are trying to un-adopt and endless stream of Odorous House Ants:<\/p>\n
Sometimes they go for the ant bait (Terro), but when they don’t, I concoct my own by adding Borax to various foods.\u00a0 \u00a0Helen is not enchanted with my kitchen science experiments:<\/p>\n Helen inadvertently did a experiment of her own, testing the melting limit of a induction plate that we (unwisely) keep on top of our old school electric stove top:<\/p>\n \n Nothing that can’t be fixed with a little duct tape and a black Sharpy marker:<\/p>\n I made a doggy door so we can quickly quarantine mis-behaving doggies:<\/p>\n Found a spot to put in one last trail segment:<\/p>\n Our Canna Lillys are thriving in the new flower planter:<\/p>\n The Rochester House sale completed.\u00a0 The new owner, James, is having fun putting some modern touches on it:<\/p>\n We had a party for a new co-worker:<\/p>\n Kids had fun with in the bear loft:<\/p>\n I’m trying out one meal a day intermittent fasting.\u00a0 Helen is sad because she doesn’t get to cook as often, but happy when dinner time comes, often making me feasts like this one:<\/p>\n Will close with a final tally of all the plants & trees I found in our backyard this year … 117!\u00a0 Here is a list by flower\u00a0<\/a> and here a list by date found<\/a>.<\/p>\n Closing with a couple of blue ones, a Lobelia and a Mistflower:<\/p>\n Bruce<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We found and adopted a baby Triceratop and we are trying to un-adopt and endless stream of Odorous House Ants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/doggy_door.gif?fit=480%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3779"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4064,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779\/revisions\/4064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n