{"id":12038,"date":"2025-08-04T04:18:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T08:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=12038"},"modified":"2025-08-03T23:54:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T03:54:54","slug":"mon-aug-4-2025-making-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2025\/08\/04\/mon-aug-4-2025-making-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Mon. Aug. 4, 2025 &#8211; making progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot.  Humid.  VERY hot in the sun.  The temp never broke 100F that I&#8217;m aware of but I still had to come in and cool off several times.  The humidity is just too high to cool off.<\/p>\n<p>I did a bunch of work yesterday.  Did some work on the park when I needed to move fast and not think much.   Did the work on the walkway.   I have it leveled, compacted, and half covered with weed barrier.  I am almost ready to install the edge boards and then I&#8217;ll be ready to fill with gravel.  <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what I&#8217;ll be doing today, getting the edges installed, and doing the last bit of leveling and compacting.  I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll alternate with some of the other stuff on the list.  I wish I&#8217;d taken a break before I sheared off the hose bib&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I think I will be taking more cool off breaks today.  No point in getting hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I&#8217;ll be working.  Always working.  Good thing I enjoy working.<\/p>\n<p>Stack up something you love.<\/p>\n<p>nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot.  Humid.  VERY hot in the sun.  The temp never broke 100F that I&#8217;m aware of but I still had to come in and cool off several times.  The humidity is just too high to cool off.<\/p>\n<p>I did a bunch of work yesterday.  Did some work on the park when I needed to move fast and not think much.   Did the work on the walkway.   I have it leveled, compacted, and half covered with weed barrier.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2025\/08\/04\/mon-aug-4-2025-making-progress\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Mon. Aug. 4, 2025 &#8211; making progress &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,83,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-decline-and-fall","category-lakehouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12039,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12038\/revisions\/12039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}