{"id":31,"date":"2006-10-18T22:51:16","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T10:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/?p=31"},"modified":"2006-11-05T00:05:48","modified_gmt":"2006-11-04T12:05:48","slug":"unfortunately-i-had-to-use-the-pick-axe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"Unfortunately, I Had to Use the Pick Axe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Becky and I are frantically trying to get enough garden space ready to plant out all of the seedlings that are coming up. We pulled back another swath of black polythene and I went at it with the shovel, as usual, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/?p=10\">breaking the clay open so we can add gypsum, lime and compost<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It all came to a halt when my shovel found a vein of sandstone just near the surface. Not broken up sandstone, but a single, solid mass.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s only one option at a time like this: Pick axe.<\/p>\n<p>When I bought this pick axe from a garage sale for NZ$2, I sincerely hoped that I would never have to use it. But when you need a pick axe, you really need it.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div style=\"border: 0px solid black; padding: 15px 15px 40px; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; width: 448px; height: 336px; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" style=\"border: 0px solid black\" src=\"\/images\/pickaxe.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<small>Used pick axe: NZ$2. And the less I have to use it, the better!<br \/>\n<\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>As I gazed upon the scene above, I thought about my past life in the doomed corporate IT world. When asked, &#8220;How&#8217;s it going, today, Kevin?&#8221; by &#8220;Bob in Marketing&#8221;&#8212;I&#8217;m sure you know people like &#8220;Bob in Marketing&#8221;&#8212;my favorite response was, &#8220;Just breaking rocks all day, Bob, as usual.&#8221; I guess the Universe got me back for using that one a few too many times!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Becky and I are frantically trying to get enough garden space ready to plant out all of the seedlings that are coming up. We pulled back another swath of black polythene and I went at it with the shovel, as usual, breaking the clay open so we can add gypsum, lime and compost. It all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}