{"id":1353,"date":"2021-04-12T22:26:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T03:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2021-04-26T22:13:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T03:13:05","slug":"caging-the-hazels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=1353","title":{"rendered":"Caging the Hazels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had worried about deer eating my new hazel plants in the middle of the night. I&#8217;m not sure I lost significant sleep about it, but it was a concern. In the morning I lugged a roll of fence wire up to where I had planted them and put wire cages around them. It wouldn&#8217;t stop a determined deer, but the idea is to make the hazels a little less attractive than other vegetation nearby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I made a second trip with garden staples and a bucket of water, stapled the cages into the ground, and gave four of the hazels a drink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Made another 2 trips with buckets of water and got all the bushes evenly watered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"504\" height=\"672\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/caged_hazel.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1376\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/caged_hazel.jpg 504w, http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/caged_hazel-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My pedometer app said it was a total of 2 miles walking; probably as much was back and forth in the hazel patch as from the house to the patch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We drove home just in time for supper. Arlene and I watched a zoom interview sponsored by Friends of the Shakers. The panelists were Brother Arnold, one of the few remaining Shakers, and a woman who had just written a book about a girl raised by the Shakers. Brother Arnold knows more Shaker history than anyone else now alive, I think, and was able to reassure the author that many details of her story (like everyone breaking into song in the middle of doing the community laundry) were indeed plausible. I left a few minutes early to go to my Symphonic Band zoom meeting.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had worried about deer eating my new hazel plants in the middle of the night. I&#8217;m not sure I lost significant sleep about it, but it was a concern. In the morning I lugged a roll of fence wire up to where I had planted them and put wire cages around them. It wouldn&#8217;t &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=1353\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Caging the Hazels&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1387,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions\/1387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}