{"id":1266,"date":"2010-05-16T17:32:07","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T23:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2013-04-12T08:08:39","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T14:08:39","slug":"large-rocks-enhance-straw-bale-garden-on-day-8-and-tales-of-gopher-grasping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/large-rocks-enhance-straw-bale-garden-on-day-8-and-tales-of-gopher-grasping\/","title":{"rendered":"Large Rocks Enhance Straw Bale Garden on Day 8 and Tales of Gopher Grasping"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 1 – Chronicles of a Straw Bale Garden<\/a><\/p>\n

Day 5 – If You Give a Gardener a Straw Bale<\/a><\/p>\n

Day 8<\/p>\n

I am living<\/strong> in the heyday of strong, energetic, employment seeking young men in my family.\u00a0 They are at an age where they are quite happy to go around moving large rocks just to show that they can.\u00a0 How much the better if I pay them for it.\u00a0 Thus, it was very convenient to arrange for help with the landscaping around my straw bale garden near the driveway entrance.\u00a0 In the amazingly short period of one hour, my son (aka, “the gorilla”) and my nephew relocated multiple boulders and created an aesthetically pleasing, natural looking display.<\/p>\n

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This son<\/strong>, on the left, is the same one that caught a gopher by hand last month.\u00a0 Everyone should have such efficient, dedicated staff.\u00a0 Of course, he didn’t know what he was trying to catch, just that it was\u00a0 putting one of our fruit trees at risk.\u00a0 He could see its head popping up on either side of the trunk as it began to set up house, so he went and put some gloves on.\u00a0 I was in the house, not feeling well that day and not aware of what he was doing.\u00a0 His 13 year old sister was observing as he studied the varmint’s movements.\u00a0 After a few misses, he grabbed it around the neck and pulled it out while continuing to grip tightly.\u00a0 I am told he raised an eyebrow and commented, “Huh, I didn’t know it had such big teeth.”<\/p>\n

When I heard<\/strong> shouts of victory and began to realize what he had done, I still did not go out.\u00a0 I did give directions about finding a container for it so that we could let his father identify it later that evening.\u00a0 I also checked to see if he had been bitten.\u00a0 I may be the family’s head gardener, but gophers are a new pest for me.\u00a0 Fortunately, I still have a son around to help me.\u00a0 We will investigate safer methods for future captures.<\/p>\n

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Day 17 – Transplanting challenges<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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