{"id":42,"date":"2006-09-24T14:31:41","date_gmt":"2006-09-24T19:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/?p=42"},"modified":"2006-09-24T14:32:34","modified_gmt":"2006-09-24T19:32:34","slug":"new-backyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"New Backyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been in our house more than 5 years now.  It started out as a decrepit place, artifically split into two apartments.  After a couple of years of hellish gut-rehabbing (while <i>living<\/i> there), it came out as a beautiful single family home again.  And, as by my wife&#8217;s design, the kitchen is fully half of the first floor.<\/p>\n<p>Since the rehab, we&#8217;ve been focusing our savings on fixing up the exterior of the house.  Last year we removed the horrible light-blue aluminum siding and replaced it with painted cedar planks.  The backyard, however, had been turned into a dead field full of broken glass, nails, and wood chips.  Construction will do that.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/images\/backyard\/yardempty.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>it just so turns out that the electric guitar player at my weekly folk jam is a professional landscape designer, now gone freelance.  He drafted up a new yard for us, something full of vegetables, ferns, fruit trees, flowering bushes, and lots of native prairie grass.  He even put in a brick patio:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/images\/backyard\/yardplans.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It only took about 3 weeks&#8230; poof, a new yard!  Yeah, it&#8217;s kinda stumpy right now.  But in a couple of years, the plants will all spread out and no dirt will be showing.  Woo!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/images\/backyard\/yardnew.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(For those playing along at home, yes, the two yard images were taken with a wide-angle 19mm lens.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been in our house more than 5 years now. It started out as a decrepit place, artifically split into two apartments. After a couple of years of hellish gut-rehabbing (while living there), it came out as a beautiful single family home again. And, as by my wife&#8217;s design, the kitchen is fully half of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}