{"id":221,"date":"2020-01-14T03:01:29","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T03:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/honeyrand.com\/staging\/3053\/?p=221"},"modified":"2024-06-09T19:25:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T19:25:47","slug":"in-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/honeyrand.com\/staging\/3053\/2020\/01\/14\/in-the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"In the beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-43d5ffef046a63bf34cbfcb597811168\">Going to be writing about backyard wildlife and landscape&#8230;.This is how it got started&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-856d7fa189f24d72f1044ec032e69d6d\">January 13, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b09d48094e27bd20d28d3fdd4eab8cbf\">We bought this house more than 25 years ago trading Sarasota for Lutz. I was working more than fulltime at the Southwest Florida Water Management District\u2014a job I loved. It was big and busy. When I got the job, I took 6-months off from my Ph.D. program at the University of South Florida. It fell to Jim to find a home for Sassy the orange dog and me. I hate the house. It was baby shit yellow on the outside and green inside. It would be like living in the bat cave with all these tiny rooms, I told Jim. All that wallpaper. Low hanging cabinets in a tiny kitchen which came to a point jutting into a screened back porch. \u201cLook at the property,\u201d Jim repeated as I pointed out how truly awful the house was. \u201cNo matter where you end your day,\u201d he said, \u201cyou\u2019ll be 30 minutes from home.\u201d He meant the District or USF. \u201cI will start remodeling the house within a year,\u201d he promised. I reluctantly agreed. The house has been remodeled inside three times, the last time we got it right. 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