{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Today in yard work:\nRealized the way I was putting loose stones down to shape the hillock the compost pile is rotting into was...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/667706824856944640/", "html": "<p>Today in yard work:</p><ul><li>Realized the way I was putting loose stones down to shape the<a href=\"/post/666688427052417024/\" target=\"_blank\"> hillock the compost pile is rotting into</a> was wrong; changed it and it now looks much better.</li><li>Realized that the reason the ramp in my backyard was so steep is leaves have been falling in it and rotting into dirt for decades and the &ldquo;top&rdquo; of it is really the top of the first of three courses of stone on the side walls. Got like two wheelbarrows of dirt out with like three or four left. </li><li>Realized that the sandy ridge I exposed had been flowing downhill and if I dug it out I would notice I had actually built <a href=\"/post/666688427052417024/\" target=\"_blank\">this retaining wall</a> up like one now-buried flight higher so far this year.</li><li>Realized if I made mud out of the dirt from the ramp then added in sand it would make a good solidifying paste to mortar the next flight on the wall in with.</li></ul><p>Accomplishment!</p>"}