{"id":3423,"date":"2013-09-27T00:17:15","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T00:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=3423"},"modified":"2013-09-27T00:20:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T00:20:00","slug":"eeek-theres-a-cement-truck-in-the-yard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=3423","title":{"rendered":"Eeek, there’s a cement truck in the yard!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, we knew it was coming since we spent last week getting a\u00a0 place built for the cement to go.<\/p>\n

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The first wheelbarrow of wet cement had been transported to the far end of the new sidewalk and the second wheelbarrow was close behind.<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s a really neat system.\u00a0 The cement dry mix is in one hopper on the truck, and water is in the other, and they are mixed together at the site.\u00a0 So there is no waste.<\/p>\n

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Dan is supervising the project. He just needed a white hard-hat to make it official. There's the path dug out of the yard, around the bedroom to the back of the house.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Jack is admiring the mixture going into the wheelbarrow. The wheelbarrow wielder is waiting patiently.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Wheelbarrow wielders have done their thing, and now the artistic part of the project begins.<\/p><\/div>\n

It really is almost an art form to get the cement sidewalk all nicely smooth, and then brushed out with a broom.\u00a0 Bob is smoothing it out with a very large float.\u00a0 He spent a couple of hours making things look pretty.<\/p>\n

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Everybody has left and the new sidewalk is drying out. Once it is a pale gray like the rest of the existing sidewalk, it is ready to walk upon. A day or two at most.<\/p><\/div>\n

So this coming winter we now have another seventy feet of sidewalk to shovel which follows the path we take to get gas cans to the generator.\u00a0 Instead of having an uneven icy path, we’ll have much more secure footing, and a sidewalk is easier to shovel than grass.\u00a0 We’re going to extend the flower bed between the house and the new sidewalk, next spring.\u00a0 It will give me a lot more room for plants.\u00a0 We’ll have to build a fence to keep the deer and bunnies out.<\/p>\n

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A roof has magically appeared on top of the arbor in the garden.<\/p><\/div>\n

The same crew that created the sidewalk also built a roof for us in the garden, to keep the chairs and table dry and provide some shade next spring and summer.\u00a0 The chances of the grape plants actually getting long enough to go over the top of the arbor were looking unlikely, so we decided a more dry solution was a better idea.<\/p>\n

Now I need to decide what color to paint the plywood on the front of the arbor, below the roof line.\u00a0 And I might as well paint the gate while I’m at it.\u00a0 So many colors in my head!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, we knew it was coming since we spent last week getting a\u00a0 place built for the cement to go. It’s a really neat system.\u00a0 The cement dry mix is in one hopper on the truck, and water is in the other, and they are mixed together at the site.\u00a0 So there is no waste. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3423"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3437,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423\/revisions\/3437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}