{"id":3696,"date":"2013-07-04T20:35:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T00:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/?p=3696"},"modified":"2013-07-04T20:35:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T00:35:51","slug":"patio-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/?p=3696","title":{"rendered":"Patio Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aligncenter\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"461\" src=\"http:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/patio.jpg\" width=\"614\"\/><\/p>\n<p>All of the field pieces are laid and now I only have cuts around the post piers. The field had been completed several days ago, but I only finished all the cut-in work around the stone walls today.  Here&#8217;s a flavor of what I was dealing with:<\/p>\n<p class=\"aligncenter\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"461\" src=\"http:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cuts.jpg\" width=\"614\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Just follow along the line of the wall and around the drain to get an idea. Some of those took a lot of work to get right.  When the cuts weren&#8217;t difficult, getting the piece in was because of the combination of sand and stone next to the wall that I couldn&#8217;t skreet.  I had to do that part by hand, which was tedious.<\/p>\n<p>I would have completed the cuts around one of the piers today, but I was going to make the final adjustments to the piece and when I set it down, the piece cracked into two pieces.  I was so disgusted I decided I was done.  Not the best note to end on, but I wasn&#8217;t going to spend another 30 minutes cutting the arc again.<\/p>\n<p>Cutting pavers is a miserable job, especially in this kind of heat.  By the end of the day, I was caked in a layer of paver dust from head to toe.  Thankfully, my Dad had me a breathing mask for just this kind of work.  I was also outfitted with eye guards and ear plugs, making it a thoroughly unpleasant way to spend a day.<\/p>\n<p>Be that as it may, a lot of work is done and the end is in sight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The field is complete and the cuts into the retaining walls<br \/>\n            completed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[283,329],"tags":[320,337,331],"class_list":["post-3696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy","category-patio-diy","tag-patio","tag-pavers","tag-stone-wall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}