{"id":3088,"date":"2006-09-11T22:53:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-12T03:53:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:32:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:32:38","slug":"resident-thief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2006\/09\/11\/resident-thief\/","title":{"rendered":"Resident Thief"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The RV is parked right next to one of the four pecan trees on our property. It’s one of the smaller ones, but every year, it produces quite a number of pecans, even this year, when the drought caused half of them to drop early.<\/p>\n

I wasn’t too upset when that happened, because for several years now, we haven’t collected a single ripe pecan. The squirrels get them all. I’ve been watching it happen today. About every three or four minutes, a squirrel will make a dash from the line of trees near the pond, across the lawn, to the pecan tree. It’ll harvest one of the green nuts and dash back to the treeline. I was more upset about it in previous years, but I’m reconciled to it now. What can I do, other than take pot-shots at them with a pellet gun? I’m not willing to go that far.<\/p>\n

What gets me is that they don’t wait until the nuts are ripe. It that a squirrel thing? I can’t even grab one before they come calling, because it’s still in it’s green husk and unusable. It’s sad. Pecans are my favorite nut, and I have to make do with grocery store produce.<\/p>\n

Maybe I’ll find new baby pecan trees down by the pond some year and it’ll all be worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The RV is parked right next to one of the four pecan trees on our property. It’s one of the smaller ones, but every year, it produces quite a number of pecans, even this year, when the drought caused half of them to drop early. I wasn’t too upset when that happened, because for several… Continue reading Resident Thief<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[390,307],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-NO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3089,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088\/revisions\/3089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}