{"id":1097,"date":"2007-05-07T01:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T01:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:34:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:34:10","slug":"while-i-was-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1097","title":{"rendered":"While I was away…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>So I\u2019ve not been around very much this past week, but I\u2019ve been busy finishing up with school and out and about enjoying the bounty of spring. Plus, I didn\u2019t have much of interest to say, still don\u2019t in fact, but don\u2019t want to make it a habit to just post a pic and be off.<\/p>\n

Since I last had anything much to say here I\u2019ve been to two wakes for coworkers of my husband and a memorial service for an old birding buddy who passed away back in January. I dragged my husband along on a day trip to the Pine Barrens and spent a lunch hour or two at the little park near to where I work watching the tree sparrows fight over the too few nest boxes. I had a successful evening looking at wildflowers in the woods and three unfruitful visits to various spots locally looking for migrants. The only new birds I\u2019ve added this week are Baltimore Oriole, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Eastern Kingbird, Ovenbird, Oystercatcher, Willet, Common Tern, Laughing Gull and whichever Vireo it is that sings incessantly from the treetops. Other people are seeing great birds, but I haven\u2019t managed to be in the right spot at the right time.<\/p>\n

The pond is up and running and the fish are happy, my husband has cut the lawn twice and we got our hands on 5 little dwarf mountain laurels for the woodland border. I\u2019m looking for ideas of what to plant as a groundcover in that area beneath the American Holly trees, so if anyone has any bright ideas I\u2019d love to hear about them soon, while my husband is in the habit of digging planting holes. If I don\u2019t come up with any other ideas, I\u2019ll probably plant a few ferns just as soon as I figure out which ones might actually be able to survive in the dry shade.<\/p>\n

Hope you all had a happy weekend; I\u2019ll be around to visit with you before too long.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I\u2019ve not been around very much this past week, but I\u2019ve been busy finishing up with school and out and about enjoying the bounty of spring. Plus, I didn\u2019t have much of interest to say, still don\u2019t in fact, but don\u2019t want to make it a habit to just post a pic and be … Continue reading While I was away…<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,31,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}