{"id":3889,"date":"2015-05-17T08:56:12","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T13:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=3889"},"modified":"2015-05-17T08:56:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T13:56:12","slug":"sprucing-up-the-balcony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=3889","title":{"rendered":"Sprucing up the balcony"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’ve been meaning to buy plants for the balcony, but never found the right nursery – or found a nursery that was open when I wanted to go. I finally found one this weekend, and bought several smaller plants. Then John and I loaded up the 4Runner with three tall plants we bought from a departing family. The birds already seem to like the greenery, and it makes the balcony feel so much cozier. From the nursery, I bought two small bougainvilleas, rosemary, basil, and mint, plus they potted a mum and a palm that I had. Hopefully, they’ll grow and I won’t kill them!<\/span><\/p>\n

The week was full of drama, hard-to-handle cases, and one high-profile case. Pete and I just feel like we’ve been through the ringer! We went to dinner with John and Drew Friday night at a restaurant near the office, then returned to work mid-way through dinner to do follow up on the high-profile case. <\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks to the recommendation of a co-worker, we’ve found a good spa not too far from the house. I had a nice massage this week after work, then went back for a manicure later in the week. John had an appointment yesterday and he also liked it. I think he wishes he’d had the massage after <\/em> I made him move all of these heavy plants around!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                          I’ve been meaning to buy plants for the balcony, but never found the right nursery – or found a nursery that was open when I wanted to go. I finally found one this weekend, and bought several smaller plants. Then John and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3889"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3901,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889\/revisions\/3901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}