{"id":584,"date":"2015-11-14T19:31:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-14T06:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/?p=584"},"modified":"2015-11-14T19:32:14","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T06:32:14","slug":"baling-twine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/baling-twine\/","title":{"rendered":"Baling Twine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m as big a fan of baling twine as the next wannabe farmer, and always have a couple of lengths\u00a0in my pockets ready for the next farm incident. The resource\u00a0that arrives holding your hay bales together comes in mighty useful: an impromptu dog lead (Maisie is on heat and DJ the American Bulldog down the lane is taking a rather keen interest); a reminder as to which trees are due\u00a0to be removed\u00a0(tie orange baling twine round the trunk); or in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsground.co.nz\/hendersonvalleypc\/102134\/2\" target=\"_blank\">true NZ Pony Club tradition<\/a> as a breakaway tie up point for one&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/welcoming-the-horses\/\" target=\"_blank\">mount<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, the previous owners of the farmlet seem to have taken the use of baling twine to new heights. On every walk through the paddocks I find\u00a0a\u00a0few more pieces half-buried\u00a0in the grass or adorning a gate, and in the case of one particular plum tree they really outdid themselves. This was the result of half an hour releasing\u00a0branches\u00a0from twine.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_521\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/bailing-twine-2015-08-12-94.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-521\" class=\"size-large wp-image-521\" src=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/bailing-twine-2015-08-12-94-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Someone got carried away\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/bailing-twine-2015-08-12-94.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/bailing-twine-2015-08-12-94-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-521\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">What did that tree do?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It is possible that liberating that tree\u00a0was a grave mistake. From the extent of the bondage I can only imagine that this particular <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prunus\" target=\"_blank\">prunus<\/a>\u00a0has either (1) attempted to escape from the property on several occasions, or (2) has been indulging in some budget\u00a0BDSM (sorry no link &#8212; use your imagination!).<\/p>\n<p>Fear not dear readers, I&#8217;ve got my eye on the POI\u00a0(Plant of Interest) and\u00a0will be reporting back\u00a0on any untoward behaviour. Never turn your back on an unrestrained\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.teara.govt.nz\/en\/photograph\/18784\/black-doris-plums\" target=\"_blank\">Black Doris<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m as big a fan of baling twine as the next wannabe farmer, and always have a couple of lengths\u00a0in my pockets ready for the next farm incident. The resource\u00a0that arrives holding your hay bales together comes in mighty useful:&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/baling-twine\/\" class=\"more-link\">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":{"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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orchard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","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=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":47,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":631,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions\/631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}