{"id":5416,"date":"2012-05-05T17:17:52","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T22:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/polarbear60.org\/randr\/?p=5416"},"modified":"2023-03-28T09:23:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T14:23:54","slug":"central-texas-cinco-de-mayo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/central-texas-cinco-de-mayo\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Texas Cinco de Mayo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just normal stuff going on.\u00a0 The yard is in much better shape this year than last year.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the latest picture of our house stripping project:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13019\" src=\"https:\/\/pmtoo.jeanschara.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/0504121406-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"May, 2012 Scraping Progress\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Notice how &#8220;ripply&#8221; the wall is on the left and center sections?\u00a0 Hubby has not reset the boards yet to snug them up.\u00a0 I think you can set was a difference this made on the right section &#8212; we got an extra board in.\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 There was that much room between all the boards going up the wall. We anticipate adding a board on each of the remaining sections.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a comparison between the front section we&#8217;ve already done &#8212; the oblique view, if you will:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13020\" src=\"https:\/\/pmtoo.jeanschara.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/0504121407-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Left oblique\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if you can tell, but we now have primer on the mailbox post.\u00a0 Hubby is using that to train me in his methods.\u00a0 I puttied the cracks today. In a few weeks, I&#8217;ll sand and re-putty.\u00a0 I think after that, I&#8217;ll be able to put on a color coat.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see what the master says.<\/p>\n<p>And next on our list?\u00a0 See that back wall in this next photo?<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13021\" src=\"https:\/\/pmtoo.jeanschara.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/0504121409-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"All these boards must go\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The back window goes to the downstairs bathroom &#8212; right off the dining room.\u00a0 On the porch side is an outdoor closet, deep enough for a washer and dryer, freezer, or water heater.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure what the previous owners intended, because none of those things are there &#8212; it just looks like they could be.\u00a0 All those boards on that section of the wall? They must be replaced.\u00a0 They are crumbling.\u00a0 We need 27 ten foot premium deck boards and two sixteen-foot premium deck boards.\u00a0 Once we get them and they are dry (and still straight), we&#8217;ll have a board making party which begins by planing them to the proper thickness.\u00a0 Then we cut to the proper width.\u00a0 Finally, we use the router to create the ship lap sides.\u00a0 I figure it will take us about a week to make the boards.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the worst section on the house.\u00a0 We don&#8217;t anticipate having many more boards to replace once we get that job completed.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 52px; left: 440px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just normal stuff going on.\u00a0 The yard is in much better shape this year than last year.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the latest picture of our house stripping project: &nbsp; Notice how &#8220;ripply&#8221; the wall is on the left and center sections?\u00a0 Hubby has not reset the boards yet to snug them up.\u00a0 <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/central-texas-cinco-de-mayo\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[122],"class_list":["post-5416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property","tag-central-tx-house"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15593,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416\/revisions\/15593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}