{"id":329,"date":"2007-06-20T19:57:06","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T23:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auroralux.net\/blog\/2007\/06\/20\/not-so-worried-about-the-ac-now-lets-talk-about-mulch\/"},"modified":"2007-06-20T19:57:27","modified_gmt":"2007-06-20T23:57:27","slug":"not-so-worried-about-the-ac-now-lets-talk-about-mulch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/2007\/06\/20\/not-so-worried-about-the-ac-now-lets-talk-about-mulch\/","title":{"rendered":"Not so worried about the AC now, let&#8217;s talk about mulch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three days after installing the vent down-stream from the trap in the drain pipe for our upstairs air handler, the whole thing appears to be working exactly like it&#8217;s supposed to! There&#8217;s a slow, steady drip at the outside end of the drain pipe, and the secondary drain pan is actually bone dry for the first time since installation!<\/p>\n<p>Before packing the girls and Finley in the minivan and heading up to visit her parents, Andrea had a dump truck unload a gigantic pile of pine bark mulch in our driveway. Apparently if I ever want to see or use our driveway again, I need to spread all that mulch around in our play area, flower, shrub, and herb beds.  I don&#8217;t want to exaggerate the size of the pile, so I&#8217;ll just say it&#8217;s longer than my car, as wide as the driveway, and taller than me. At least, it was before I started hauling wheelbarrows full of mulch all over the yard. It&#8217;s work, but the last time we had a pile of anything nearly that big in our driveway, it was soil, and let me tell you, mulch weighs practically nothing compared to soil! <\/p>\n<p>I was keeping count of how many trips it would take to get rid of the mulch pile, but I lost count today as I did some weeding and edging in between mulching trips. Looking at the pile, I&#8217;m a bit nervous I won&#8217;t get the job done before the 4th of July holiday unless I spend every non-sleeping, non-working hour on the mulch pile. <\/p>\n<p>Hopefully I&#8217;m just really bad at spacial estimation because I wanted to do a lot of bike riding while everyone&#8217;s up north!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three days after installing the vent down-stream from the trap in the drain pipe for our upstairs air handler, the whole thing appears to be working exactly like it&#8217;s supposed to! There&#8217;s a slow, steady drip at the outside end &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/2007\/06\/20\/not-so-worried-about-the-ac-now-lets-talk-about-mulch\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[10,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fhmiv.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}