{"id":128202,"date":"2015-10-01T12:56:06","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T18:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/01\/seven-years-ago-the-front-yard.html"},"modified":"2015-11-16T09:39:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T16:39:35","slug":"seven-years-ago-the-front-yard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/01\/seven-years-ago-the-front-yard.html","title":{"rendered":"Seven Years Ago: The Front Yard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;ve been enjoying Google Photo&#39;s automated bundles of nostalgia shots. This one recently popped up for me &#8212; it shows our front yard after all the stone work was added and before any (or nearly any of the plants had been put in. <\/p>\n<p>Seven years on, plants have filled in nicely, a few bits of concrete are getting loose, and the overall look is a lot softer (but still very nice). Also, all the grass is now gone, but that was the most recent project&#39;s fault.<\/p>\n<p>Also, that little blond girl isn&#39;t nearly so little any more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6200754934205714945\/6200754934658812594'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-frWhIHC8X3w\/Vg2BwpOWyrI\/AAAAAAADZOs\/CC2GoOMN9Vw\/P1030313-COLLAGE.jpg?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6200754934205714945\/6200754935035113714' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url(https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-wDKmOsM09JA\/Vg2BwqoEsPI\/AAAAAAADZPE\/wpZQt55KrV0\/IMG00644.jpg?imgmax=300);'><\/a>\u00a0<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6200754934205714945\/6200754935625325506' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url(https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-PucFWslzLa8\/Vg2Bws0ym8I\/AAAAAAADZO0\/l44m7Exrbh8\/P1030312.JPG?imgmax=300);'><\/a>\u00a0<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6200754934205714945\/6200754934164414818' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url(https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-ljmEIwHbht0\/Vg2BwnYe4WI\/AAAAAAADZO0\/3OSO5Rcoqyc\/P1030313.JPG?imgmax=300);'><\/a>\u00a0<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6200754934205714945\/6200754932187767010' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url(https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-48PChRoWF_M\/Vg2BwgBNoOI\/AAAAAAADZO0\/1uP-SGwZs3Y\/P1030314.JPG?imgmax=300);'><\/a>\u00a0<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6200754934205714945\/6200754934895074642' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url(https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-hMeUR9IiJlE\/Vg2BwqGr3VI\/AAAAAAADZO0\/rnhBxT96VYM\/P1030315.JPG?imgmax=300);'><\/a>\u00a0<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6200754934205714945\/6200754936330253090' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url(https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-5O7q-S6qlq4\/Vg2Bwvc28yI\/AAAAAAADZO0\/ZX2Kv9GUY7M\/P1030316.JPG?imgmax=300);'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6200754934205714945?authkey=CIb45_7h1NPo5AE'>In Album 10\/1\/15<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/3Tq1o9Se8GE'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;ve been enjoying Google Photo&#39;s automated bundles of nostalgia shots. This one recently popped up for me &#8212; it shows our front yard after all the stone work was added and before any (or nearly any of the plants had been put in. Seven years on, plants have filled in nicely, a few bits of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/01\/seven-years-ago-the-front-yard.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Seven Years Ago: The Front Yard&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,19,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-home-improvement","category-pix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/P1030313-COLLAGE.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9635,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/05\/21\/why_i_am_not_a.html","url_meta":{"origin":128202,"position":0},"title":"Why I am not a manual laborer","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 21-May-06 7:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Because it is frelling hard. 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