{"id":4413,"date":"2013-09-05T20:28:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T12:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=4413"},"modified":"2013-09-05T20:30:21","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T12:30:21","slug":"springing-back-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/05\/springing-back-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Springing Back to Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130905-061.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4523\" alt=\"20130905 061\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130905-061-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130905-061-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130905-061.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I had no idea how flat I had become after a long cold and wet winter. We have had heavier than usual rain for the last 4 months and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/31\/average-august-rains\/\">August only had 3 days without rain<\/a>. \u00a0This was a record as normally there are about 2 dry weeks in August. \u00a0I realise now, how much I have been hibernating, staying indoors wrapped in layers and clutching a (w)heat pack, hot out of the microwave, to keep warm. \u00a0Today was warmer and the wind had dropped and I felt like I had been reborn. \u00a0I sorted out the <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/05\/food-zone\/\">greenhouse<\/a>,\u00a0weeded the garden and finished pulling out a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/22\/lovely-lupins\/\">patch of lupins<\/a> in the paddock. I groomed all the horses and lunged young <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/category\/not-so-wildlife\/horses\/?s=flash\">Flash<\/a>. Throughout the day I was also checking on the goats every couple of hours to check on progress on <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/22\/i-felt-it-move\/\">Midge&#8217;s Pregnancy<\/a>, no kids yet, but maybe tomorrow. The colourful flowers bursting out everywhere over the last few days have inspired me and I feel like I am raring to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had no idea how flat I had become after a long cold and wet winter. We have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4523,"comment_status":"closed","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":"","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":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-property"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130905-061.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4413"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4530,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4413\/revisions\/4530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}