{"id":7922,"date":"2011-12-11T03:50:46","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T11:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=7922"},"modified":"2011-12-11T03:50:46","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T11:50:46","slug":"glamour-day-at-the-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/7922","title":{"rendered":"Spa Day at the Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Some of our dedicated workers here at the farm\u00a0need a change of venue every now and then. Nick and Curtis (below), who work alongside my dad and brother,\u00a0have one of the hardest jobs at the farm. Showing up every day, they put on &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8230;\u00a0hair nets and then stand all day mixing and packaging the quality foods that show up on your doorstep or in REI stores. It requires a top-notch work ethic, conscientious attitude, and attention to detail. When mixing the recipes from scratch, can you imagine what your biscuits would taste like if they accidentally put citric acid instead of salt into\u00a0a bulk batch?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So, last week, Kim, Nick, and Curtis spent the day grooming\u00a0our animals, taking them for\u00a0walks, and whispering sweet nothings in their (newly clean) ears.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">First, our Great Pyrenees got a bath.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image wp-image-7945\" title=\"periwinkle-9219\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/periwinkle-92191.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image wp-image-7946\" title=\"periwinkle-9284\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/periwinkle-92841.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image wp-image-7962\" title=\"periwinkle-9281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/periwinkle-9281.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image wp-image-7930\" title=\"periwinkle-9306\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/periwinkle-9306.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image wp-image-7931\" title=\"periwinkle-9318\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/periwinkle-9318.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Nick at his work station in our food facility.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image wp-image-7990\" title=\"periwinkle-9509\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/periwinkle-95091.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Curtis hard at work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image wp-image-8001 aligncenter\" title=\"periwinkle-0638\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/periwinkle-06381.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Our pregnant girls, Chocolate and Maizy, got extra love and attention. (What pregnant girl doesn&#8217;t need extra pampering?)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image wp-image-7935\" title=\"boys_cows-9335\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/boys_cows-9335.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image wp-image-7936\" title=\"boys_cows-9342\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/boys_cows-9342.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image wp-image-7937\" title=\"boys_cows-9344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/boys_cows-9344.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image wp-image-7938\" title=\"boys_cows-9347\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/boys_cows-9347.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sally O&#8217;Mally\u00a0enjoyed her stroll to visit the horses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image wp-image-7939\" title=\"boys_cows-9438\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/boys_cows-9438.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image wp-image-7940\" title=\"boys_cows-9446\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/boys_cows-9446.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"259\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">As always, a tip o&#8217; the hat, to those who feed us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of our dedicated workers here at the farm\u00a0need a change of venue every now and then. Nick and Curtis (below), who work alongside my dad and brother,\u00a0have one of the hardest jobs at the farm. Showing up every day, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/7922\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/7922\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[177,218,487,641,685,760,790],"class_list":["post-7922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratitude","tag-chocolate","tag-curtis","tag-kim","tag-nick","tag-periwinkle","tag-rei","tag-sally-omally"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}