{"id":3006,"date":"2019-09-22T09:12:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T16:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wright-macdonald.com\/blog\/?p=3006"},"modified":"2019-09-22T09:12:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T16:12:17","slug":"sunday-september-22-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wright-macdonald.com\/blog\/sunday-september-22-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday, September 22, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Much has been happening, but Ted’s camera was out of battery at the beginning of the week. We were out there yesterday taking current pictures. They divide into four categories: backyard grading, tiling, kitchen cabinets, and what Pete’s been doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The backyard grading is almost done. This past week, they made three staircases including a beautiful stair-step sideways staircase up to the top level of the main backyard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Picture 1: Overview of backyard terracing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Picture 2. The top wall, above terrace 3, with its sideways staircase up to the top slanted slope.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Later in the week, they built a staircase from level 1 to 2 and another sidewaysish staircase up to level 3, where the chicken coop is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Picture 3. Two staircases through the levels.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Picture 3 Shows a straight staircase from terrace 1 to 2 and another above from terrace 2 to 3, where the chicken coop is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tiling in the apartment bathroom is done; they were cleaning grout off the tiles yesterday. Picture 4 is the shower stall for the apartment. The tile on the floor is the same tile used throughout the apartment. They have also finished tiling the outside deck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Picture 4: Apartment shower stall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The shower stall in the master bathroom and the floor are also finished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Picture 5. Master bathroom shower stall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The tiling of the decks, powder room, and laundry room are now finished as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cabinet guy has been working this week setting up the kitchen cabinets. Pictures, 6-8 show different views of the kitchen. There is, as yet, no center island nor any cabinets on the south side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Picture 6. West wall with cutouts for two refrigerators and a broom closet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Picture 7: The north wall with drawers for placemats. The cabinet doors will be added later.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Picture 8. The east wall with a desk area and a cabinet to hold the second stove and microwave.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As soon as the backyard grading is complete, they will start bringing dirt into the area just outside the kitchen. This area needs to be built up by 12-18 inches. After that is complete, Pete can start building the gabions that cover the lower part of the west side of the house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the meantime, Pete has been building gabions in non-construction areas of the yard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Picture 9. This is a new gabion filled partially with broken concrete from the foundation of the old house. This is along the road to the solar panels. Although, not visible, Pete has added a lot of dirt to the road near the top where it was very uneven.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Picture 10. This is a week-old picture of the new west gabion wrapping around citrus hill. The backyard construction goes up to that pre-existing block wall. The other side has a gully and then citrus hill.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Much has been happening, but Ted’s camera was out of battery at the beginning of the week. We were out there yesterday taking current pictures. They divide into four categories: backyard grading, tiling, kitchen cabinets, and what Pete’s been doing. The backyard grading is almost done. This past week, they made three staircases including a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wright-macdonald.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wright-macdonald.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wright-macdonald.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wright-macdonald.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wright-macdonald.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3006"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.wright-macdonald.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3015,"href":"https:\/\/www.wright-macdonald.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006\/revisions\/3015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wright-macdonald.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wright-macdonald.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wright-macdonald.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}