{"id":716,"date":"2010-07-24T15:21:12","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T20:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/24\/cottage-projects\/"},"modified":"2010-07-24T18:46:13","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T23:46:13","slug":"cottage-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/24\/cottage-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Cottage Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/big_dadoo\/4824815306\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4120\/4824815306_f16f8c444e_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/big_dadoo\/4824815306\/\">New Corner Post<\/a><br \/>Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/big_dadoo\/\">Big Dadoo<\/a><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s project was power washing the lower deck in preparation for staining. Today, after the morning ride around the bypass, I finished off the new corner post on the cottage. Last year I replaced the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/big_dadoo\/4824204017\/\">deck corner post<\/a> on the same corner and prepped the area for this post. Instead of concrete block pads, I&#8217;ve poured pads directly on the rock and anchored with several pieces of rebar drilled into the rock. That should stay put for a while.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/big_dadoo\/4824817956\/\" title=\"White Windows by Big Dadoo, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4075\/4824817956_74a506f7c8_m.jpg\" alt=\"White Windows\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><br \/>On a previous week at the lake, I repaired one set of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/big_dadoo\/4824204673\/\">front windows<\/a> and this week, the other pair is on the list.<\/p>\n<p>After completing the post task Shirley and I were completing the <br \/>staining of the upper deck, but a sudden rain shower called a halt to <br \/>that. Oh well, I guess we&#8217;ll have to goof off for a while. What? Now <br \/>it&#8217;s sunny again but we&#8217;ll need to wait for the deck to dry up again, so<br \/> it&#8217;s off to the dock for a little tanning.<\/div>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Corner PostOriginally uploaded by Big Dadoo Yesterday&#8217;s project was power washing the lower deck in preparation for staining. Today, after the morning ride around the bypass, I finished off the new corner post on the cottage. Last year I replaced the deck corner post on the same corner and prepped the area for this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maintenance","category-the-lake"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}