{"id":379,"date":"2009-05-04T14:50:23","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T14:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backyardcity.wordpress.com\/?p=379"},"modified":"2012-07-08T00:02:29","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T00:02:29","slug":"rain-rain-go-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backyardcity.com\/Outdoor-Patio-Blog\/rain-rain-go-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain, Rain Go Away!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not exaggerating when I say it has been raining here in Tennessee for the past week, non stop.\u00a0I have begun to wonder why I keep seeing pairs of everything\u00a0as I gaze out into my front yard &#8211; two dogs, a pair of robins, two squirrels chasing each other up my pin oak tree??<\/p>\n<p>Now it is Monday morning and I am going to have to blame the weather for my tiredness&#8230;what else could it be? I slept all weekend BECAUSE of the rain!\u00a0 One thing I did muster up the energy to do is go to the\u00a0garden nursery store\u00a0to get a myriad of lawn products that I am going to need once the rain finally stops. I have so much to do in my yard and I know many of you feel the same way.<\/p>\n<p>One\u00a0product I was looking at was\u00a0a wheelbarrow. I didn&#8217;t realize how pricey those things can be! I passed on getting one primarily because I don&#8217;t have anywhere to store it and the new shoes I saw last week seemed like more of a necessity! Priorities, please! Anyway, today I when I got to the office I saw a new product we have just added to our expansive product portfolio. Check this out &#8211; I did and\u00a0I just love it!\u00a0 It is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backyardcity.com\/garden-accessories\/OTE-Folding-Wheelbarrow.htm\">Folding Wheelbarrow<\/a> &#8211; awesome, sturdy, compact, inexpensive, and it won&#8217;t rust since you can fold it up and easily put it away.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if it will just stop raining so I can use it.\u00a0 Rain, Rain Go Away!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-380 aligncenter\" title=\"900366-03\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardcity.com\/Outdoor-Patio-Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/900366-03.jpg?resize=420%2C331&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"900366-03\" width=\"420\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardcity.com\/Outdoor-Patio-Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/900366-03.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardcity.com\/Outdoor-Patio-Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/900366-03.jpg?resize=300%2C236&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardcity.com\/Outdoor-Patio-Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/900366-03.jpg?resize=1024%2C807&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not exaggerating when I say it has been raining here in Tennessee for the past week, non stop.\u00a0I have begun to wonder why I keep seeing pairs of everything\u00a0as I gaze out into my front yard &#8211; two dogs, a pair of robins, two squirrels chasing each other up my pin oak tree?? Now it is Monday morning and I am going to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backyardcity.com\/Outdoor-Patio-Blog\/rain-rain-go-away\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rain, Rain Go Away!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[174,182,199,573],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden-tools-tips","category-entertaining","tag-folding-wheelbarrow","tag-garden-accessories","tag-garden-tools","tag-wheel-barrow"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Nnyf-67","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":676,"url":"https:\/\/www.backyardcity.com\/Outdoor-Patio-Blog\/update-your-garden-with-environmentally-friendly-products\/","url_meta":{"origin":379,"position":0},"title":"Update Your Garden with Environmentally Friendly Products","author":"Trey Collier","date":"May 12, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Looking for ways to update your garden? 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