{"id":9259,"date":"2013-02-25T14:13:20","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T14:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/?p=9259"},"modified":"2020-09-20T14:52:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-20T18:52:15","slug":"new-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/25\/new-toy\/","title":{"rendered":"New Toy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our house is North Carolina is on almost two acres- same as our new house here in Ohio. But the house here has WAY more grass. WAY. So that means lots of mowing. Our new backyard is huge, and the reason we bought the house.<\/p>\n<p>When we heard a friend was downsizing and was getting rid of the their riding lawn mower we snatched it up. Of course that meant getting it from her neighborhood to mine.<\/p>\n<p>One of our friends was nice enough to volunteer to help so he and Andy took turns riding it over to our hood.<\/p>\n<p>When they got to our street Eva and I ran out to greet them<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9261\" title=\"Q14A2587copy\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Q14A2587copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Q14A2587copy.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Q14A2587copy-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Q14A2587copy-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I got a few texts from friends that saw them along the way.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9262\" title=\"Q14A2590copy\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Q14A2590copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Q14A2590copy.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Q14A2590copy-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Q14A2590copy-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our street dead ends at the river so we don&#8217;t get much traffic so once they got to our street they started doing circles and playing<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9263\" title=\"Q14A2592copy\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Q14A2592copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Q14A2592copy.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Q14A2592copy-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Eva pretended to drive-<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9264\" title=\"Q14A2595copy\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Q14A2595copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Q14A2595copy.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Q14A2595copy-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9265\" title=\"Q14A2596copy\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Q14A2596copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Q14A2596copy.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Q14A2596copy-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Want to see my new house?? Here she is. A little different from the last one. At least for now. Can you picture a big front porch and a second story?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9266\" title=\"Q14A2599copy\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Q14A2599copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Q14A2599copy.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Q14A2599copy-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Q14A2599copy-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our house is North Carolina is on almost two acres- same as our new house here in Ohio. But the house here has WAY more grass. WAY. So that means lots of mowing. Our new backyard is huge, and the reason we bought the house. When we heard a friend was downsizing and was getting rid of the their riding lawn mower we snatched it up. Of course that meant getting it from her neighborhood to mine. One of our friends was nice enough to volunteer to help so he and Andy took turns riding it over to our hood. When they got to our street Eva and I ran out to greet them I got a few texts from friends that saw them along the way. Our street dead ends at the river so we don&#8217;t get much traffic so once they got to our street they started doing circles and playing Eva pretended to drive- Want to see my new house?? Here she is. A little different from the last one. At least for now. Can you picture a big front porch and a second story?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-house"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Q14A2586copy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17695,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9259\/revisions\/17695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}