{"id":546,"date":"2009-07-21T16:30:25","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T00:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/?p=546"},"modified":"2009-07-22T08:07:22","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T16:07:22","slug":"surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/2009\/07\/surprise","title":{"rendered":"A Surprise for Mr Mud"},"content":{"rendered":"

A month ago, Erik built this for my birthday:<\/p>\n

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This time, he was gone for three weeks paying a visit to WA. I wanted to do something to surprise him. My eyes set on the vegetable garden. It grew very well when we moved in, but it had some plants that I would not use in my cooking, such as jalapeno, hot chili pepper, etc.\u00c2\u00a0 Gradually, I stopped going into the garden. It had been neglected for over two years and had become an eye sore.<\/p>\n

When he left for his trip, the garden looked like this:
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He pulled in at night. Next morning when he looked out the window and he saw this:
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He was surprised. And he was even more surprised to hear that I didn’t hire anybody (I didn’t know how) for this make over.<\/p>\n

I admit I wanted to give up half way. It was hard work. I took three days off after the Death Ride<\/a>. It turned out the effort involved in this project was way more than what it took to complete the Death Ride in under 10 hours. But I am happy about the outcome. It still needs some more work and I am waiting for the right time to grow more vegetables (that I like to cook). But I don’t think I’ll let it go wild again now that I’ve put so much effort into it.<\/p>\n

I learned the process by watching some youtube video. Considering it’s a low traffic area, I skipped the steps to level the ground. I just lay down the landscaping fabric, lay the bricks, and then fill the gaps with sand. At any one time, I could only pull about ten bricks close to the garden (not even all the way to the garden gate), and I would carry two bricks by hand to the work site and lay them down. Not very efficient, so it’s amazing that I even made it this far. Well, I’m a mudworm and inch by inch, I know I can get there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A month ago, Erik built this for my birthday: This time, he was gone for three weeks paying a visit to WA. I wanted to do something to surprise him. My eyes set on the vegetable garden. It grew very well when we moved in, but it had some plants that I would not use […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":552,"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mxi2000.net\/mudworm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}