{"id":2235,"date":"2010-09-29T17:51:43","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T00:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=2235"},"modified":"2010-09-29T17:51:43","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T00:51:43","slug":"moving-lava-rock-in-the-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/moving-lava-rock-in-the-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving lava rock&#8230;in the heat&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re approaching fall and probably snow&#8212;but in the meanwhile, after nearly freezing all our flowers, and putting the poor koi on a wheat germ diet (you can&#8217;t feed them protein in cold water)&#8212;we are now baking; and all the lava rock we had scraped up to put down new weed cloth now has to be shoveled back again. It&#8217;s really hard to drive a shovel into a pile of red pumice. We worked as long as we could and gave it up. That&#8217;s still a big pile and we&#8217;re about 1\/3 done. I don&#8217;t mind carrying rock, but I hate shoveling it.<\/p>\n<p>Rocks are so thick in the soil that we&#8217;ve given up driving the long-awaited weedcloth pins into it: I&#8217;m bending 4 out of 5 pins so badly they won&#8217;t go in, and the 5th one is apt to be hammered flat like a badly driven nail, capable of holding, but just obnoxious-looking. Thank goodness for a hefty rubber mallet.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m still working on the Bren book, and still spending my spare time prepping Chernevog for e-book release. Rusalka is ready. That leaves Yvgenie yet to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re approaching fall and probably snow&#8212;but in the meanwhile, after nearly freezing all our flowers, and putting the poor koi on a wheat germ diet (you can&#8217;t feed them protein in cold water)&#8212;we are now baking; and all the lava rock we had scraped up to put down new weed cloth now has to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}