{"id":4469,"date":"2017-05-28T13:02:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-28T01:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/?p=4469"},"modified":"2017-05-31T12:27:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T00:27:49","slug":"looking-hairy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/looking-hairy\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Hairy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here we are in autumn again. The nights are getting nippier and the ponies are getting fluffier. Summer grows a coat that\u00a0is plush like a\u00a0teddy bear. Bonnie just goes all Hairy Maclary<\/a>\u00a0on us.<\/p>\n

\"Horse<\/a>

Teddy Bear pony…<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Horse<\/a>

and the\u00a0Hairy One. She was too hungry to pose nicely<\/p><\/div>\n

In the garden our summer\u00a0veggie and fruit crops are winding down. Because it was so dry\u00a0neither the strawberries nor the tomatoes took off until March. It’s a lovely compensation having\u00a0a few fruits still ripening up.<\/p>\n

One\u00a0of my most important jobs over\u00a0winter and spring will be building the soil in that veggie garden. The more horse poo and compost I can pile\u00a0in there now, the\u00a0more drought-resistant it will be next summer.<\/p>\n

\"strawberries\"<\/a>

The last of the strawberries<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Sweet<\/a>

Sweet 100 cherry tomatoes. You can see how sad the poor plant looks, but it’s still\u00a0fruiting<\/p><\/div>\n

As the warm weather goodies disappear,\u00a0here come some\u00a0ingredients we’ll be using in the winter kitchen. Pretty soon I need to get onto planting out the vampire harvest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"rocket<\/a>

Self sown rocket<\/del>\u00a0kale seedlings. My mistake, the brassicas all look so similar as babies.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"strawberries\"<\/a>

This year’s\u00a0oranges starting to ripen<\/p><\/div>\n

More garden news; when we left our old house<\/a> I took\u00a0some\u00a0rose cuttings<\/a>.\u00a0Not all of them sprouted, but ‘Duchess de Brabant’ did me proud. I planted her\u00a0out last month and she\u00a0is enthusiastically producing a few\u00a0late-season blooms.<\/p>\n

\"autumn<\/a>

Duchess de Brabant<\/p><\/div>\n

Finally, I know you are all just itching\u00a0to hear\u00a0what I’ll be wearing with my cowboy boots this winter. So far my favorite outfit is a pair of tan coloured\u00a0Workshop<\/a>\u00a0cords\u00a0which I picked up for 50c (I know! Calm down!), a cerulean blue merino<\/a>, and this orange scarf — all from the Whangarei Hospice Shop.\u00a0The denim jacket, like my boots,\u00a0is an old classic\u00a0that just keeps on giving.<\/p>\n

\"orange<\/a>

Tangerine scarf, Whangarei Hospice Shop $1.<\/p><\/div>\n

What autumn things are happening around\u00a0your place? Are you hairier than usual? Have\u00a0you found\u00a0any exciting\u00a0additions to your cold weather\u00a0wardrobe at the op shop? The comment box is open.<\/p>\n

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Here we are in autumn again. The nights are getting nippier and the ponies are getting fluffier. Summer grows a coat that\u00a0is plush like a\u00a0teddy bear. Bonnie just goes all Hairy Maclary\u00a0on us. In the garden our summer\u00a0veggie and fruit… Continue Reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42,12,33,4,20,41,3,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autumn","category-bonnie","category-gardening","category-kaimanawa-pony","category-orange-grove","category-plant-life","category-ponies","category-vegetable-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4469"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4523,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469\/revisions\/4523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}