{"id":4247,"date":"2015-05-04T07:49:12","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T11:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=4247"},"modified":"2015-05-04T07:49:48","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T11:49:48","slug":"dig-the-new-digs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/dig-the-new-digs\/","title":{"rendered":"Dig the new digs&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150502_111109-e1430739545408.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4248\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150502_111109-e1430739545408-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"20150502_111109\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8230;.it&#8217;s probably their idea of arriving in cow heaven&#8230;.Wooz calls it &#8220;summer camp&#8221;.\u00a0 A group of Thistle Hill steers arrive at a nearby farm courtesy of its new owners, Bob and Ann Emory.<\/p>\n<p>And &#8220;nearby&#8221; is certainly accurate.\u00a0 The new 50-acre pasture is just around the corner.\u00a0 And replaces another that was a half hour away&#8230;.and much smaller.\u00a0 Until now, we&#8217;ve had to pull our steers out every winter for lack of water&#8230;.and set up portable fencing.<\/p>\n<p>Bob has prepared a first-class facility complete with a new loading pen.<\/p>\n<p>Cows haven&#8217;t been on the land for many years so while we&#8217;ve checked and re-checked, we&#8217;ll wait a year before really starting a stocking\u00a0 and grazing plan.\u00a0 We not only want\u00a0to be sure we haven&#8217;t\u00a0missed any metal, but want to watch the steers for awhile before committing to any fencing.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by Duane Ard.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.it&#8217;s probably their idea of arriving in cow heaven&#8230;.Wooz calls it &#8220;summer camp&#8221;.\u00a0 A group of Thistle Hill steers arrive at a nearby farm courtesy of its new owners, Bob and Ann Emory. And &#8220;nearby&#8221; is certainly accurate.\u00a0 The new 50-acre pasture is just around the corner.\u00a0 And replaces another that was a half hour away&#8230;.and much smaller.\u00a0 Until now, we&#8217;ve had to pull our steers out every winter for lack of water&#8230;.and set up portable fencing. Bob has prepared a first-class facility complete with a new loading pen. Cows haven&#8217;t been on the land for many years so while we&#8217;ve checked and re-checked, we&#8217;ll wait a year before really starting a stocking\u00a0 and grazing plan.\u00a0 We not only want\u00a0to be sure we haven&#8217;t\u00a0missed any metal, but want to watch the steers for awhile before committing to any fencing. Photo by Duane Ard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pasture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4250,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247\/revisions\/4250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}