{"id":8509,"date":"2020-11-30T08:20:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T13:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/?p=8509"},"modified":"2020-11-30T08:21:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T13:21:31","slug":"what-was-i-thinking-gretchen-at-the-cane-bed-2020-11-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/what-was-i-thinking-gretchen-at-the-cane-bed-2020-11-29.html","title":{"rendered":"What was I thinking? &#8211;Gretchen at the cane bed 2020-11-29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\nThat&#8217;s less than half of the sugar cane on the bed when Gretchen wondered,\r\n&ldquo;What was I thinking?&rdquo;\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%;font-style:italic\">\r\n<a title=\"Bed, covers, bedded.\" name=\"M:Bed-covers-bedded\" href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2020-11-29--cane-bed\/many.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2020-11-29--cane-bed\/many.jpg\"  alt=\"[Bed, covers, bedded.]\"><\/a>\r\n<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2020-11-29--cane-bed\/#M:Bed-covers-bedded\">Bed, covers, bedded.<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nNervous Nellie thought it was great fun, running up and down the cane bed as I was digging it.\r\nThe other dogs got bored and went home.\r\n<p>\r\nGretchen cut almost all of the cane with her machete.\r\n(She didn&#8217;t approve of my axe.)<!--more-->\r\n\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%;font-style:italic\">\r\n<a title=\"What was I thinking?\" name=\"P:What-was-I-thinking\" href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2020-11-29--cane-bed\/20201129_121124.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2020-11-29--cane-bed\/20201129_121124.jpg\"  alt=\"[What was I thinking?]\"><\/a>\r\n<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2020-11-29--cane-bed\/#P:What-was-I-thinking\">What was I thinking?<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nGuess who got to carry all of it to the cane bed (hint: not her).\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%;font-style:italic\">\r\n<a title=\"How much more cane?\" name=\"P:How-much-more-cane\" href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2020-11-29--cane-bed\/20201129_121126.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  width=\"600\" height=\"284\"  border=0 src=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2020-11-29--cane-bed\/20201129_121126.jpg\"  alt=\"[How much more cane?]\"><\/a>\r\n<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2020-11-29--cane-bed\/#P:How-much-more-cane\">How much more cane?<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nMaybe some big armadillos did that?\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%;font-style:italic\">\r\n<a title=\"About to pull the covers over.\" name=\"P:About-to-pull-the-covers-over\" href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2020-11-29--cane-bed\/20201129_125643.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  width=\"600\" height=\"284\"  border=0 src=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2020-11-29--cane-bed\/20201129_125643.jpg\"  alt=\"[About to pull the covers over.]\"><\/a>\r\n<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2020-11-29--cane-bed\/#P:About-to-pull-the-covers-over\">About to pull the covers over.<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nOr a John Deere armadillo.\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%;font-style:italic\">\r\n<a title=\"Bedded down.\" name=\"P:Bedded-down\" href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2020-11-29--cane-bed\/20201129_131712.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  width=\"600\" height=\"284\"  border=0 src=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2020-11-29--cane-bed\/20201129_131712.jpg\"  alt=\"[Bedded down.]\"><\/a>\r\n<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2020-11-29--cane-bed\/#P:Bedded-down\">Bedded down.<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nWhat she has on the golf cart is just a bit for grinding to make a little cane syrup.\r\nThe rest is for planting a bigger crop next year.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s less than half of the sugar cane on the bed when Gretchen wondered, &ldquo;What was I thinking?&rdquo; Bed, covers, bedded. 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