{"id":3853,"date":"2013-06-08T21:00:46","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T01:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/?p=3853"},"modified":"2013-08-04T07:43:13","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T11:43:13","slug":"bushwacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/bushwacking\/","title":{"rendered":"Bushwacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/08\/bushwacking\/bushwacking-june-2013\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3854\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Bushwacking-June-2013-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Bushwacking June 2013\" width=\"625\" height=\"468\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-3854\" srcset=\"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Bushwacking-June-2013-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Bushwacking-June-2013-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Bushwacking-June-2013-624x468.jpg 624w, http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Bushwacking-June-2013.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I spent several hours earlier this summer clearing saplings and other overgrowth from the southeastern portion of our lot, which is located closed to East Shore Road. The area is low-lying and has been taken over by poison ivy. I can only imagine that it was once a nice looking portion of the property, but had become a dense unused space.<\/p>\n<p>I started with a handheld saw and pruning shears. A bug-bite that sent me to the doctor, three bouts with poison ivy, and an achy back later, I&#8217;ve made some headway. It is much thinner from the side as you drive into and out of the Double Dogleg. However, I still need to improve the view from the living room down to the lake. That will take some additional work &#8211; and perhaps a crew to eliminate some of the larger, dead trees.<\/p>\n<p>The next step is to either remove or chip the felled trees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent several hours earlier this summer clearing saplings and other overgrowth from the southeastern portion of our lot, which is located closed to East Shore Road. The area is low-lying and has been taken over by poison ivy. I can only imagine that it was once a nice looking portion of the property, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1053,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-ownership","category-our-experiences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3856,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853\/revisions\/3856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}