{"id":12604,"date":"2022-07-02T21:29:26","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T04:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=12604"},"modified":"2022-07-03T18:03:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T01:03:07","slug":"well-that-didnt-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=12604","title":{"rendered":"Well, that didn&#8217;t work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; $118.39 later.<\/p>\n<p>The riding lawn mower has a new carburetor &#8211; &#8211;<br \/>\nand still won&#8217;t run.<br \/>\nOther suggestions to look at include bad fuel lines and safety switches.<\/p>\n<p>There is a 70% chance of rain this weekend so I pushed the machine into the reconfigured shed, and I can work in there, and watch videos about possible fixes. <\/p>\n<p>The work crew did a lot of painting this week and put the bird net up. There are spaces still open between some of the studs. I have to rip plywood to about 10 inches and tack that up to complete the bird-proofing.  I have a dozen of used sheets, so there is no expense \u2013 just the work.<\/p>\n<p>I have a new wild flower blooming this week but have forgotten the name. It is cute but not a stand-out in the mass of shrub-steppe vegetation. Initial searches failed to find it. Some of the bunch grass is 7 feet tall. If it is not raining in in the morning, I&#8217;ll get photos of both things and add them. Otherwise \u2013 next week.<br \/>\nThe tall and showy Wild Mock Orange (<i>Philadelphus lewisii<\/i>) is also blooming.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/wild-mock-orange.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"439\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12606\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/wild-mock-orange.jpg 360w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/wild-mock-orange-246x300.jpg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 85vw, 360px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>UPDATE<br \/>\nI used Google image search but did not find the flower.<br \/>\nI switched to Bing image search and that found an image almost identical to the one I took today. First my composite:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Flower-composite-July-3-22.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1007\" height=\"369\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12611\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Flower-composite-July-3-22.jpg 1007w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Flower-composite-July-3-22-300x110.jpg 300w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Flower-composite-July-3-22-768x281.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><br \/>\nHere a link to Large-flowered Collomia on the Washington Native Plant Society (WNPS) site:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.wnps.org\/blog\/plant-profile-collomia-grandiflora?highlight=WyJjb2xsb21pYSIsImdyYW5kaWZsb3JhIiwiY29sbG9taWEgZ3JhbmRpZmxvcmEiXQ==<br \/>\nOR:<br \/>\nSearch with &#8221; wnps Large-flowered Collomia &#8221; and you will get there.<\/p>\n<p>Keeping track on the Naneum Fan<br \/>\nJohn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; $118.39 later. The riding lawn mower has a new carburetor &#8211; &#8211; and still won&#8217;t run. Other suggestions to look at include bad fuel lines and safety switches. There is a 70% chance of rain this weekend so I pushed the machine into the reconfigured shed, and I can work in there, and watch &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=12604\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Well, that didn&#8217;t work&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-issues"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72iNf-3hi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12604"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12613,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12604\/revisions\/12613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}