{"id":2519,"date":"2009-03-23T14:50:11","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T22:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angrypirate.com\/wordpress\/?p=2519"},"modified":"2009-03-23T14:50:11","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T22:50:11","slug":"apples-77-and-78-and-clearing-a-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/apples-77-and-78-and-clearing-a-path\/","title":{"rendered":"apples 77 and 78 and clearing a path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/angrypirate\/3371112854\/\" title=\"apple 77 by Alanna Risse, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3422\/3371112854_62cd504f81.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"apple 77\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As of Friday evening, I&#8217;ve been getting back into projects and trying to get my studio set up. I cleared a path to my easel, but then gave into my urges of making native bee houses. Spring is here and I don&#8217;t want to miss out of the bumble bees coming out of hibernation. I used my paint palette as a gluing station and worked on a bumble bee house made out of a clean, unused paint can. I found some rubber hose for $1 and I&#8217;ve drilled a 1&#8243; hole into the top of the can and glued the hose to it. I&#8217;ll fill the inside of the can with natural bamboo fiber I found at JoAnn&#8217;s. Once I&#8217;m done, I&#8217;ll bury it in the garden with the hose sticking out of the ground. I&#8217;m considering making some sort of ridiculously cute entry way for the opening, something to keep the rain out and keep me from messing up the opening later on when I get too distracted with planting things. I&#8217;m imagining a little canopy like a hotel lobby entrance. Maybe I can find something from old doll house pieces at a Goodwill or something. For now I can probably make something out of a can or a milk carton. I&#8217;m just waiting for the glue to set and then I&#8217;ll be ready to bury it. Hope I get some bees!<\/p>\n<p>The other project I started on Friday was a mason bee house. I found a 4&#215;4 and drilled a bunch of holes in it, then found a 1&#215;6 and made a little roof out of it. I&#8217;m waiting for the deck sealer to dry on it before I hang it on a post in the side yard.<\/p>\n<p>77 and 78 were eaten while I busily sawed and drilled, I barely even remember them. They kept me going when I didn&#8217;t want to stop and eat. They were both apples that I got from a little produce store called Limbo. They had a big bin for $1 a pound. I meant to get them for juicing, they aren&#8217;t the best looking apples in the world, but I&#8217;ve been too busy to get better apples from the store.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/angrypirate.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/apple78-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"apple78\" title=\"apple78\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2521\" \/><br \/>\nFeels good to be making something. Whether or not it is art, well&#8230; I don&#8217;t really care right now. I just know it&#8217;s important and I have to do it. Maybe that&#8217;s enough reason to call it art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of Friday evening, I&#8217;ve been getting back into projects and trying to get my studio set up. I cleared a path to my easel, but then gave into my urges of making native bee houses. Spring is here and I don&#8217;t want to miss out of the bumble bees coming out of hibernation. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}