{"id":362,"date":"2009-06-06T07:11:16","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T12:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maryahernartist.com\/garden-blog\/?p=362"},"modified":"2009-08-25T16:13:21","modified_gmt":"2009-08-25T21:13:21","slug":"hard-labor-on-the-rock-pile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maryahernartist.com\/garden-blog\/hard-labor-on-the-rock-pile\/","title":{"rendered":"Step 5 &#8211; Hard Labor on the Rock Pile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(If you&#8217;d like to follow this project from the beginning you can start at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/maryahernartist.com\/garden-blog\/2009\/05\/28\/sometimes-garden-projects-take-a-long-time\/\" target=\"_self\">Step 1 here<\/a><\/strong>)<\/p>\n<h2>Step 5 of Rear Garden Design Project.<\/h2>\n<p><strong>September 2000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If anyone had ever told me that I would be sentenced to hard labor on a rock pile I would have mocked them. Welcome to my life.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_365\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 442px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-365\" title=\"2000-09-12-dry-stream-circle\" src=\"http:\/\/maryahernartist.com\/garden-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/2000-09-12-dry-stream-circle.jpg\" alt=\"The garden rocks begin to accumulate in the dry stream bed from months of gardening\" width=\"432\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maryahernartist.com\/garden-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/2000-09-12-dry-stream-circle.jpg 432w, https:\/\/maryahernartist.com\/garden-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/2000-09-12-dry-stream-circle-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">The garden rocks begin to accumulate in the dry stream bed from months of gardening<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/h3>\n<p>On the program, &#8220;<em>Inside the Actor&#8217;s Studio<\/em>&#8220;, James Lipton asks ten questions at the end of his interview with the guest artist. Two of those questions are:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"unIndentedList\">\n<li> What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?<\/li>\n<li> What profession would you not like to do?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My answer to the second is instantly and consistently: Ditch Digger.<br \/>\nI then remember that I&#8217;m a gardener and I dig ditches and holes all the time.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_366\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 442px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-366\" title=\"2000-10-23-working-in-the-pit\" src=\"http:\/\/maryahernartist.com\/garden-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/2000-10-23-working-in-the-pit.jpg\" alt=\"Nobody could pay me enough to do this backbreaking work but I'm doing it for free here\" width=\"432\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maryahernartist.com\/garden-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/2000-10-23-working-in-the-pit.jpg 432w, https:\/\/maryahernartist.com\/garden-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/2000-10-23-working-in-the-pit-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Nobody could pay me enough to do this backbreaking work but I&#8217;m doing it in my own garden for free <\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/h3>\n<p>I guess I would also have to include working hard labor on the rock pile under professions I would <strong>not<\/strong> like to do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">_______________________________________________________<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/maryahernartist.com\/garden-blog\/2009\/06\/11\/stone-walled-rethinking-the-project\/\">Go to Step 6 &#8211; Stone Walled. Rethinking the Project<\/a><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">_______________________________________________________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(If you&#8217;d like to follow this project from the beginning you can start at Step 1 here) Step 5 of Rear Garden Design Project. 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