{"id":97,"date":"2005-08-26T09:49:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-26T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alison.gloderworks.net\/weblog\/?p=97"},"modified":"2005-08-26T09:49:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-26T14:49:00","slug":"storm-damage-firewood-bonus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"Storm Damage\/ firewood bonus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4201\/926\/1600\/free%20fiewood%20this%20week.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4201\/926\/320\/free%20fiewood%20this%20week.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4201\/926\/1600\/storm%20damage%20%20peppermint%20tree2.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4201\/926\/320\/storm%20damage%20%20peppermint%20tree2.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>There&#8217;s so much &#8220;free firewood&#8221; around just now, each day during the cleanup one can hear chainsaws, and along the roads people are loading up cars, trucks, horse drawn carts, little cycle-driven boxy things on two wheels, even a motor cycle sidecar.<\/p>\n<p>We were lucky. We are among many who have roll down shutters here, and our windows were protected. Only last week I commented how lovely our peppermint tree was looking out the front &#8211; now 2\/3 of it is twisted off and down on the street. <em>(pictured &#8211; we occupy the middle unit of this triplex) <\/em>To the right of this photo a fir of some kind is bent in half, slumped over the wires on a power pole, but it all continues to work OK. These Uruguayan power people could show our chainsaw-happy Western Power employees a thing or two about power lines and trees, and how they DON&#8217;T need to be hacked and massacred into the wild improbable shapes you see round some of our Perth suburbs. And, this week&#8217;s storm aside, here we don&#8217;t suffer anywhere near the amount of power outages that we do in Perth. Anyway, time now to do another spell with the yard broom&#8230;.<br \/><em><strong>PS firewood<\/strong><\/em> a guy with a chainsaw chopped up the major branches friday&#8230; I am assured this does not need a year or two to dry out, it&#8217;s great for fireplaces right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s so much &#8220;free firewood&#8221; around just now, each day during the cleanup one can hear chainsaws, and along the roads people are loading up cars, trucks, horse drawn carts, little cycle-driven boxy things on two wheels, even a motor cycle sidecar. We were lucky. We are among many who have roll down shutters here, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uxpF-1z","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}