{"id":1308,"date":"2011-05-30T23:15:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T03:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2011-05-31T10:13:56","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T14:13:56","slug":"andrea-and-i-bought-the-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2011\/andrea-and-i-bought-the-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrea and I bought the farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And it&#8217;s a beauty&#8230; more pics forthcoming&#8230; but for now I&#8217;m busy&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>replacing the battery on my mothaflippin&#8217; John Deere tractor<\/li>\n<li>figuring out where the brake is on the tractor as a gorgeous, huge blacksnake decided to hide under it<\/li>\n<li>watching a gaggle of geese&#8230; ON MY PROPATEE<\/li>\n<li>knocking down a wall in the horse stalls to ready it for twice the number of horses&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>just in time to have our three crazies show up, and the old girl Deba to show them the ropes<\/li>\n<li>running for cover as the four horses of the apocalypse duke it out over who eats first &#8211; scary!<\/li>\n<li>staring at the fence aisle at Tractor Supply for 2 hours trying to wrap my head around all the options<\/li>\n<li>using said equipment to actually build a fence &#8211; successfully, with Richard&#8217;s help &#8211; around my 7 tractor &#8220;implnts&#8221; (implements)<\/li>\n<li>basking in the beauty of it all as the sun goes down on some hard days&#8217; work!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;ll still be in shock for a little while longer, but pretty soon y&#8217;all better come on down and see us, ya hear!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/30\/andrea-and-i-bought-the-farm\/20110530-110525-jpg\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1312\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1312\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2011\/andrea-and-i-bought-the-farm\/20110530-110525-jpg\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110530-110525-e1306811265760.jpg?fit=480%2C320&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"480,320\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"The Introduction\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110530-110525-e1306811265760.jpg?fit=480%2C320&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110530-110525-e1306811265760.jpg?resize=480%2C320\" alt=\"\" title=\"The Introduction\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110530-110525-e1306811265760.jpg?w=480&amp;ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110530-110525-e1306811265760.jpg?resize=100%2C66&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110530-110525-e1306811265760.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><video src=\"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110531-101133.mov\" controls=\"controls\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\">Your browser does not support the video tag<\/video><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And it&#8217;s a beauty&#8230; more pics forthcoming&#8230; but for now I&#8217;m busy&#8230; replacing the battery on my mothaflippin&#8217; John Deere tractor figuring out where the brake is on the tractor as a gorgeous, huge blacksnake decided to hide under it watching a gaggle of geese&#8230; ON MY PROPATEE knocking down a wall in the horse &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2011\/andrea-and-i-bought-the-farm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Andrea and I bought the farm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[39,38,40],"class_list":["post-1308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-life","tag-farm","tag-horses","tag-tractor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110530-110525-e1306811265760.jpg?fit=480%2C320&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-l6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1349,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2011\/fetch-me-that-pitcher-farm-boy\/","url_meta":{"origin":1308,"position":0},"title":"Fetch me that pitcher, farm boy&#8230;","author":"m","date":"June 12, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Last weekend: plowed a field, fenced the horse paddock, set up two gates, dug four hitching post holes. 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