{"id":2259,"date":"2012-06-10T10:16:15","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T15:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=2259"},"modified":"2012-06-10T10:16:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-10T15:16:15","slug":"the-pasture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=2259","title":{"rendered":"The Pasture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been weather peaceful here in Frisco for about a week. The severe rain turned into peaceful soaking rain for a day or so. Now it is just HOT again. That&#8217;s Texas.<\/p>\n<p>I got the grass mowed in the \u201cnorth 40\u201d yesterday (Saturday) as it was in need of semi serious attention. It was very green and a bit overgrown. I mulch mow so I don&#8217;t like to work with wet or tall grass. All is good now.<\/p>\n<p>Gloria is going to soon start collecting retirement so I guess that means she is officially retired this month. I don&#8217;t think it is going to change her life much. We are both waiting until at least age 66 our \u201cofficial\u201d fully vested USDA *(joke) approved retirement age. That lets us work and earn as much as we want without lowering of our government payments.<\/p>\n<p>I am not going to \u201cquit\u201d my real work either so I guess they will have to throw me out or provide incentive (ha!) In any case I am planning a small business involving CNC machining that may provide my own incentive. But I have been saying that for years&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I am giving it more serious consideration and am searching for that product called \u201cThe Better Mousetrap\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><em>*Let the old horse out to pasture with no work left to do&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been weather peaceful here in Frisco for about a week. The severe rain turned into peaceful soaking rain for a day or so. Now it is just HOT again. That&#8217;s Texas. I got the grass mowed in the \u201cnorth 40\u201d yesterday (Saturday) as it was in need of semi serious attention. It was very green and a bit overgrown. I mulch mow so I don&#8217;t like to work with wet or tall grass.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/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":[26,4],"tags":[113,56],"class_list":["post-2259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-musing","tag-government","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}