{"id":139,"date":"2009-09-14T09:45:51","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T13:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opwfredericks.com\/archives\/139"},"modified":"2011-07-18T02:25:05","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T07:25:05","slug":"vacation-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.opwfredericks.com\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"Vacation 2009!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That <strong>Damn<\/strong> is back!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Damn<\/strong> was on the pond this morning at 6:45 when I went out to feed the fish. I yelled so loud, I think I woke up the entire neighborhood. Daniel came running out thinking I had somehow injured myself. The damn bird was perched on the 20&#8242; PVC pipe I had put across the pond to hold up landscaping fabric &#8211; to hide the pond from <strong>Damn<\/strong> &#8211; from dipping into the water.  Instead of using the fabric, I had settled for the &#8220;cats cradle&#8221; arrangement of twine and never took the pipe off. That damn bird found a 6 foot opening in the twine &#8211; which is what they need for their wingspan. I haven&#8217;t seen the damn thing in over a week and thought I had won the war &#8211; little did I know. <\/p>\n<p>So at 7:00 this morning, Daniel &#038; I were cutting 25 foot lengths of black landscape fabric and stretching it across the pond as we tried to find rocks big enough to anchor it with.  I ended up having to pull up some of the landscaping rocks I have around the pond edge. By 7:30 we were both exhausted, muddy, cranky, and we hadn&#8217;t even packed for the shore yet.  The pond now looks like the worst gift wrapped package you&#8217;ve ever seen, but I hope it will do the trick. <\/p>\n<p>If I ever do catch that <strong>Damn<\/strong> Heron, I&#8217;m going to snap off its neck, drive a stake through its skull, and plant the stake in the ground as a trophy for me and a warning to other Heron. TO HELL WITH THE LAW! <\/p>\n<p>Now that that&#8217;s out of my system&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Off to Atlantic City!<\/p>\n<p>O.P.W.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That Damn is back! Damn was on the pond this morning at 6:45 when I went out to feed the fish. I yelled so loud, I think I woke up the entire neighborhood. Daniel came running out thinking I had somehow injured myself. The damn bird was perched on the 20&#8242; PVC pipe I had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.opwfredericks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.opwfredericks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.opwfredericks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.opwfredericks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.opwfredericks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.opwfredericks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.opwfredericks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.opwfredericks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.opwfredericks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}