{"id":12917,"date":"2026-07-15T03:14:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T07:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=12917"},"modified":"2026-07-14T23:49:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T03:49:29","slug":"wed-july-15-2026-making-progress-but-a-long-way-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2026\/07\/15\/wed-july-15-2026-making-progress-but-a-long-way-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Wed. July 15, 2026 &#8211; making progress but a long way to go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just hope this cool spell continues.   It was a light misty drizzle for part of the day, and it stayed cool with a cool breeze throughout the overcast day.  The drizzle stopped early too.  Just enough to get the grass too wet to mow. I want a couple more days like this.<\/p>\n<p>I got a bunch of brick removed.  I&#8217;m down to the last couple of feet of chimney, and the firebox.  All the indoor brick is still up.  It&#8217;s progress.<\/p>\n<p>Today I&#8217;ll keep at it, weather permitting.   I&#8217;m trying to drink more electrolyte drink but keep forgetting.   The sun is still there as I have a little pink even through the t shirt.  And it&#8217;s filthy work.  Fortunately there&#8217;s a lake right here and the water is bath water warm.<\/p>\n<p>Work on something every day.  And stack.  <\/p>\n<p>nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just hope this cool spell continues.   It was a light misty drizzle for part of the day, and it stayed cool with a cool breeze throughout the overcast day.  The drizzle stopped early too.  Just enough to get the grass too wet to mow. I want a couple more days like this.<\/p>\n<p>I got a bunch of brick removed.  I&#8217;m down to the last couple of feet of chimney, and the firebox.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2026\/07\/15\/wed-july-15-2026-making-progress-but-a-long-way-to-go\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Wed. July 15, 2026 &#8211; making progress but a long way to go &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-12917","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\/12917","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=12917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12918,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12917\/revisions\/12918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}