{"id":9089,"date":"2017-08-10T11:54:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T10:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=9089"},"modified":"2017-08-23T12:04:48","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T11:04:48","slug":"daily_991_-_fresh_earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2017\/08\/10\/daily_991_-_fresh_earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 991 &#8211; fresh earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We got a delivery of two cubic metres of fresh earth for the hedge. Adrian and I had great fun spreading it out.<\/p>\n<p>When we moved here, some gardening tools became ours together with the house. (Others we bought ourselves.) One of them was a small spade which has now become Adrian&#8217;s. It&#8217;s smaller and shorter than standard spades, but it&#8217;s a real tool that can be used real work, unlike the plastic toys that are sold under the label of children&#8217;s tools in garden centres. Those are way too short and too flimsy &#8211; they might work for some pretend gardening for a three-year-old, but Adrian has outgrown that age.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, though, he spent not so much time shovelling and more time climbing, sliding, crawling and rolling around in the soil.<\/p>\n<p>When he tired, he used the spades to make catapults instead.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily\/0991_digging_2.jpg\" class=\"x4y6\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily\/0991_digging_1.jpg\" class=\"x4y6\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily\/0991_digging_3.jpg\" class=\"x4y6\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily\/0991_catapult.jpg\" class=\"x4y6\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got a delivery of two cubic metres of fresh earth for the hedge. Adrian and I had great fun spreading it out. When we moved here, some gardening tools became ours together with the house. (Others we bought ourselves.) One of them was a small spade which has now become Adrian&#8217;s. It&#8217;s smaller and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[633,18,22,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adrian","category-dailies","category-house_and_garden","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9089"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9095,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9089\/revisions\/9095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}