{"id":536,"date":"2007-05-01T08:55:09","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T14:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/2007\/05\/01\/i-dig-dig-dig-dig-dig-dig-dig-digi-feel-like-one-one-snow-whites-seven-dwarfs\/"},"modified":"2007-05-01T08:55:09","modified_gmt":"2007-05-01T14:55:09","slug":"i-dig-dig-dig-dig-dig-dig-dig-digi-feel-like-one-one-snow-whites-seven-dwarfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=536","title":{"rendered":"I dig dig dig dig dig dig dig dig&#8230;I feel like one one Snow White&#8217;s seven Dwarfs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I spent the day digging.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/O-Brother-Where-Art-Thou\/dp\/B00004XQ83\">This<\/a> should have been the soundtrack of my life yesterday.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 You remember when they are on the chain gang?\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Yep, that was me.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Digging in the garden.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/illustratormommy.blogspot.com\/\">My sister<\/a> will be proud of me, since she&#8217;s already caught the gardening bug.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 I had to dig trenches for watering in our HUGE garden plot.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 I also planted a flat of petunias and some snapdragons. Then I went and bought some little plants and seeds, and last night for Family Home Evening we planted our garden.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 So, out there we have:<\/p>\n<p>two nice sized rhubarb plants (Thanks, Dad E.) that we actually picked enough for at least one pie last night,<\/p>\n<p>3 little cabbage plants,<\/p>\n<p>12 tiny tomato plants,<\/p>\n<p>9 very small zuccini plants,<\/p>\n<p>and 6 little lettuce plants.<\/p>\n<p>We also planted (from seeds) corn (wishful thinking, I know), carrots, little pumpkins, big pumkins, butternut squash and watermellons. I\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 have some chives, chamomile and peppermint to plant, too, but ran out of room so they may have to go in a pot.<br \/>\nI know from past failures that the planting is just the beginning and that I have to actually water and weed the darn garden all summer long, but I have a good attitude this year.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 I think I can do it.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 I have no babies, no toddlers, no long vacations scheduled (sad, I know), so really, there&#8217;s no excuse other than laziness to keep us from actually keeping the garden alive.<\/p>\n<p>But Boy am I sore!\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 I sunburned the back of my arms and my neck, and my back and arms are sore from all that digging!\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 I do NOT want to be a farmer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I spent the day digging.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 This should have been the soundtrack of my life yesterday.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 You remember when they are on the chain gang?\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Yep, that was me.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Digging in the garden.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 My sister will be proud of me, since she&#8217;s already caught the gardening bug.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 I had to dig trenches for watering in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}