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Right after buying the house I decided we needed to eliminate all the grass in between the front sidewalk, that ran a kind of wonky-parallel to the house from the driveway to the door, and the house. It was not a quick process, but now I have, what I call, my long awaited mixed border. It’s looking impressive this year for the first time I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Right after buying the house I decided we needed to eliminate all the grass in between the front sidewalk, that ran a kind of wonky-parallel to the house from the driveway to the door, and the house. It was not a quick process, but now I have, what I call, my long awaited mixed border.… Continue reading The mixed border<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[212,214],"class_list":["post-10732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-gardening","tag-the-house"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5031,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2014\/03\/12\/evolutionary-diversion\/","url_meta":{"origin":10732,"position":0},"title":"evolutionary diversion","author":"leems","date":"March 12, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"So, I was learning about Trophic cascade and how reintroducing wolves to Yellowstone changed everything, down to the land and rivers.\u00a0 And then I was sharing this knowledge with a co-worker when her mind turned to coyotes and then to their interbreeding with wolves.\u00a0 And now I am learning something\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/5\/51\/Tanuki01_960.jpg\/800px-Tanuki01_960.jpg","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":8311,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2019\/06\/12\/house-painting\/","url_meta":{"origin":10732,"position":1},"title":"House Painting","author":"leems","date":"June 12, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Before Painting After five years in the house, we finally got the outside repainted! 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