{"id":631,"date":"2015-04-15T15:19:31","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T13:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/la-darnoire.com\/blog\/?p=631"},"modified":"2015-04-20T15:24:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T13:24:00","slug":"15042015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/la-darnoire.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/15042015.html","title":{"rendered":"15\/04\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The current batch of rabbit pelts were removed from the pickling solution and hung out to dry. I&#8217;ve already started defrosting the next batch. Tanning these things is a lot of work, but at least we end up with a useful product instead of just putting them in the compost (which is what a lot of farmers around here do).<\/p>\n<p>As we are now unlikely to see sub-zero temperatures until the end of the year, I re-connected the pipes to the external shower. These had been disconnected for the winter so that they wouldn&#8217;t burst. There were a couple of small leaks at the various unions, but gentle tightening with a couple of large spanners soon solved that issue. Of course now that we are able to have an outside shower again, the weather will probably turn chilly!<\/p>\n<p>A huge tracked excavator has arrived at the aged FIL in order to start dismantling the burnt-out garage tomorrow:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_632\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-632\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/la-darnoire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/digger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-632\" src=\"http:\/\/la-darnoire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/digger.jpg\" alt=\"The garage remover\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/la-darnoire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/digger.jpg 800w, https:\/\/la-darnoire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/digger-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/la-darnoire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/digger-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-632\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The garage remover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With the arrival of spring, it&#8217;s a real cacophony first thing in the morning here. The fabled &#8220;peace and quiet&#8221; of the countryside is anything but. The amount of bird song really has to be heard to be believed. And at night it&#8217;s not that quiet either; we have some nightingales around. They&#8217;re lovely to listen to, though. Oh &#8211; and speaking of birds; we&#8217;ve seen yet another new species here; the greenfinch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current batch of rabbit pelts were removed from the pickling solution and hung out to dry. I&#8217;ve already started defrosting the next batch. Tanning these things is a lot of work, but at least we end up with a useful product instead of just putting them in the compost (which is what a lot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/la-darnoire.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/15042015.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;15\/04\/2015&#8221;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/la-darnoire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/la-darnoire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/la-darnoire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la-darnoire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la-darnoire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/la-darnoire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/la-darnoire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la-darnoire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la-darnoire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}