{"id":1684,"date":"2006-10-09T20:02:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T03:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/09\/a-yard\/"},"modified":"2006-10-09T20:02:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-10T03:02:00","slug":"a-yard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/09\/a-yard\/","title":{"rendered":"A Yard!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We (almost) have a backyard, finally!!!<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/150\/1123\/1600\/IMG_1498.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/150\/1123\/400\/IMG_1498.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Two years&#8230;..digging through miles of honeysuckle, taking out a ramp, dismantling two huge planters in the center of the yard, removing two trees (Katrina causalities), building side gardens, moving the soil into them, unearthing a surprise brick patio (former backstreet?), repairing a fence (Cindy causality), digging up heavy steel rods, moving sod around to preserve it, digging up brick pavers, and heaven knows what else&#8230;<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/150\/1123\/1600\/IMG_1500.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/150\/1123\/400\/IMG_1500.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>There is still soil to move (see mound on left).  The fence on the right is the one Paul (re)built.  The one of the left is the horrible post-K fence built by chain-smoking idiots who left trash all over our yard each day.  (Grumblegrumblegrumble.)  Now just picture that lean-to turned into an addition coming out of the back of the house another 5 feet and having a second story!  *dreamy sigh*<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/150\/1123\/1600\/IMG_1493.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/150\/1123\/400\/IMG_1493.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The picture above is the outbuilding.  Pretty rough looking, eh?  And this is it&#8217;s good side!<\/p>\n<p>PS: See the little electrical box on the edge of the outbuilding on the right?  Will got stung by something out there earlier this week.  Poor little trooper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We (almost) have a backyard, finally!!!Two years&#8230;..digging through miles of honeysuckle, taking out a ramp, dismantling two huge planters in the center of the yard, removing two trees (Katrina causalities), building side gardens, moving the soil into them, unearthing a surprise brick patio (former backstreet?), repairing a fence (Cindy causality), digging up heavy steel rods, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}