{"id":34928,"date":"2026-08-19T14:37:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T18:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34928"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:37:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T18:37:34","slug":"busy-again-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34928","title":{"rendered":"Busy&#8230;again&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;up at 5:10 this morning to be able to get out to get the rides in before the grocery run&#8230;and I had to hit menards for brush killer and bug spray before I went to aldis and Meijers and then to the library&#8230;where two of the 4 books I got are repeaters and that sucks&#8230;so I wonder if I&#8217;ll go to the library again or just not read for a bit&#8230;haven&#8217;t read much of anything today since I had to continue to work on getting rid of the hornets&#8230;plugged up the inside holes with cement before I did the same with the entrance holes outside and I hope that will finally get rid of them&#8230;at least the ones that are out in the wild can&#8217;t get back in now but I&#8217;ll keep an eye on it anyway&#8230;it did rain like crazy last night for almost 3 hours and the trail was flooded and I soaked my shoes which won&#8217;t dry for days&#8230;oh, well&#8230;and I made another batch of pickled red onions and pickles and now I&#8217;m about done for the day&#8230;I do have to cook for dinner and I&#8217;m making a small ham with mashed potatoes and corn and I really should get on peeling the potatoes right now and then grind the beans for tomorrow&#8217;s coffee&#8230;man, it has been busy but one thing I learned is that I can amuse myself without a book going&#8230;oh, I tried my new shoes for Italy on the grocery run and they are pretty comfy and they even look stylish which is not me at all&#8230;still need to breaking in but not as much as leather ones do&#8230;okay, peeling potatoes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;up at 5:10 this morning to be able to get out to get the rides in before the grocery run&#8230;and I had to hit menards for brush killer and bug spray before I went to aldis and Meijers and then to the library&#8230;where two of the 4 books I got are repeaters and that sucks&#8230;so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34928\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Busy&#8230;again&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-34928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34929,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34928\/revisions\/34929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}