{"id":3499,"date":"2011-01-27T23:23:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T04:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3499"},"modified":"2011-01-27T23:23:33","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T04:23:33","slug":"my-back-is-killing-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3499","title":{"rendered":"My back is killing me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After working on my Mom&#8217;s taxes I started putzing around with my snow sculpture. I had already heaped a couple mounds of snow which should have been a lot more work than trimming the heaps today. You wouldn&#8217;t know it if you could feel my back. Five hours of chopping hard snow off of those heaps took a toll. Such work has had a similar effect for years but at age sixty after abandoning regular exercise to fight the Red Plan I&#8217;m a bit of a cream puff.<\/p>\n<p>I had stopped working on the sculpture about three weeks ago making use of a heat wave to pile snow onto the two heaps. The taller one was still too short so I had to mix water and snow this morning to pile it up higher. To do this I cooked the snow. First I gathered up a couple cubic yards of fresh snow from my backyard and brought it next to the sculpture. Next I poured twenty or thirty gallons of water on the pile then I shoveled more fresh snow on top to insulate the stew and let the water diffuse. I ignored this for about four hours and went to work chopping snow off other sections of the sculpture. <\/p>\n<p>At about 3PM I scrapped off the insulating snow and then shoveled out the sticky snow and began adding it to the tallest pile. When I finished the tallest pile was still too short and in need of bulking up.<\/p>\n<p>I could tell this because I had sculpted a small version of my planned sculpture out of modelling clay. Holding the modeling clay close to my face in front of the heaps of snow there was a mismatch. I&#8217;ll have to cook some more snow tomorrow and bulk it up some more. I&#8217;ll start the day with a couple of advils.<\/p>\n<p>When I limped inside Claudia asked me if I was done. I told her it would take me at least another day to finish. That&#8217;s if I&#8217;m lucky. I hope there are no change orders. My back couldn&#8217;t take it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After working on my Mom&#8217;s taxes I started putzing around with my snow sculpture. I had already heaped a couple mounds of snow which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}