{"id":3772,"date":"2014-09-07T23:04:38","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T23:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=3772"},"modified":"2014-09-07T23:04:38","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T23:04:38","slug":"the-belfry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=3772","title":{"rendered":"The Belfry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new bat house arrived on Friday and I&#8217;ve decided to name it &#8220;The Belfry.&#8221;\u00a0 I was gonna name it the &#8220;Bat Hilton&#8221; or &#8220;Bat Regency&#8221; but didn&#8217;t want to be hassled about copy right infringement.\u00a0 Besides, this way if somebody tell us we have bats in our belfry, we can just say, &#8220;Why, yes we do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3780\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/thebelfry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3780\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3780\" title=\"thebelfry\" src=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/thebelfry.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/thebelfry.jpg 650w, https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/thebelfry-262x300.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3780\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I have to go find some fancy lettering at the DIY store to add the name to the exterior of the box, on the board below the bat insignia.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s very nice, made of cedar with some spaces for ventilation and nylon wire mesh for little bats to clean their claws on before climbing inside.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3781\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/thebelfry2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3781\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3781\" title=\"thebelfry2\" src=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/thebelfry2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/thebelfry2.jpg 650w, https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/thebelfry2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3781\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three floors to choose from, but no elevators. There will be a concierge bat to make sure everybody is comfy.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The instructions say to hang it 12 feet off the ground, facing south east, and none of our buildings have that orientation, so we&#8217;re going to hang it south west instead, on the back of the garage up near the peak of the room.\u00a0 We also need to find some screws with which to fasten it to the wall.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3782\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/sept7-mishplaying.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3782\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3782\" title=\"sept7-mishplaying\" src=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/sept7-mishplaying.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/sept7-mishplaying.jpg 650w, https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/sept7-mishplaying-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3782\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">While I was taking bat house pictures, Mish was following me around, yelling at me and trying to get me to play with him. He finally resorted to playing with his scratching post instead.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3783\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/sep7-ptery.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3783\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3783\" title=\"sep7-ptery\" src=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/sep7-ptery.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/sep7-ptery.jpg 650w, https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/sep7-ptery-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">While Mish was doing that, Terry was sitting on the arm of the chair, showing off her wings.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>She&#8217;s at least as good as flirting as the cat is, but less likely to trip me!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3785\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/sep7-jalapenos11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3785\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3785\" title=\"sep7-jalapenos1\" src=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/sep7-jalapenos11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/sep7-jalapenos11.jpg 650w, https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/sep7-jalapenos11-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3785\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan picked jalapeno peppers and then sliced them into rings.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We got about 20 peppers.\u00a0 Dan just pulled the four eight-ounce jars out of the hot water bath and they are now cooling on the counter.\u00a0 Another first, I haven&#8217;t tried making pickled jalapeno rings before.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3786\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/sep7-basil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3786\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3786\" title=\"sep7-basil\" src=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/sep7-basil.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/sep7-basil.jpg 650w, https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/sep7-basil-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3786\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The last of the sweet basil ready to be pureed and frozen.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new bat house arrived on Friday and I&#8217;ve decided to name it &#8220;The Belfry.&#8221;\u00a0 I was gonna name it the &#8220;Bat Hilton&#8221; or &#8220;Bat Regency&#8221; but didn&#8217;t want to be hassled about copy right infringement.\u00a0 Besides, this way if somebody tell us we have bats in our belfry, we can just say, &#8220;Why, yes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3772"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3789,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772\/revisions\/3789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}