{"id":867,"date":"2014-07-04T03:58:35","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T03:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/?p=739"},"modified":"2014-07-04T03:58:35","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T03:58:35","slug":"thursday-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/thursday-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Yes, it was a Thursday. &nbsp;BIG FUN!! &nbsp;Bouncy, squishy kind of fun. &nbsp;I have had enough of big tree limbs being blown down. &nbsp;I needed to repair skylights in the machine shed. &nbsp;So, I started a pre-emptive strike. &nbsp;I rented a man-lift. &nbsp;4wd, diesel, drive from the bucket kind of man lift. &nbsp;It lifts over 40&#8242; high, moves side to side, up\/down, steers. &nbsp;Yeah, it&#8217;s a bit scary, but way cool. &nbsp;I have it till next Monday. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;So, on this Thursday, I spent time in the bucket, with a chainsaw, trimming trees. &nbsp;No shirt. &nbsp;Almost completely redneck. &nbsp;(No beverage). &nbsp;It was too windy to start on the barn roof. &nbsp;So, I murdered some Elm tree limbs that were going to come down at some point in time. &nbsp;Sooner rather than later. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;As it grew dark outside, I realized that Duke and I had a box of fireworks. &nbsp;Something clicked. &nbsp;And yes. &nbsp;On this Thursday, Duke and I rode the lift to its highest point and then shot roman candles in a downward direction. &nbsp;Classic fun. &nbsp;Roman candles shot from 40&#8242; over a pen of doe goats at dusk&#8211;PRICELESS!! &nbsp;Way worth the price of renting the lift. &nbsp;Then we came back to ground level and proceeded to use up some punks lighting stuff. &nbsp;Way good stuff. &nbsp;The Dragon Lady didn&#8217;t light any firecrackers. &nbsp;But she picked out some way cool black powder powered proplellents that &nbsp;had lots of sparkles and then booms. &nbsp;Of course, we did the saturn missles and some boot-legged bottle rockets. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Today wasn&#8217;t all fun and games as I have an open wound on my leg from a doe goat. &nbsp;Duke got the ever-living duke knocked out of him by a doe goat. &nbsp;All I know about a doe goat is that one who has never cussed an animal has never actually dealt with a doe goat. &nbsp;MISERABLE! &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Yes, it was a Thursday. &nbsp;BIG FUN!! &nbsp;Bouncy, squishy kind of fun. &nbsp;I have had enough of big tree limbs being blown down. &nbsp;I needed to repair skylights in the machine shed. &nbsp;So, I started a pre-emptive strike. &nbsp;I rented a man-lift. &nbsp;4wd, diesel, drive from the bucket [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}