{"id":350,"date":"2017-04-06T21:05:50","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T02:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/?p=350"},"modified":"2017-04-06T21:05:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T02:05:50","slug":"off-topic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/2017\/04\/06\/off-topic\/","title":{"rendered":"Off-topic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All this week the repair &amp; painting crew has been working on the outside of our house, including the carport.\u00a0 It has been noisy and distracting (as construction and lots of strangers about always is) but the effect has been excellent.\u00a0\u00a0 The gaping hole were the beehive was removed is now closed, secured, and painted.\u00a0 The wrought-iron supports for the front porch, showing age and rust, were wire-brushed down to the clean metal and repainted with the proper paint.\u00a0 You can see the acorns&#8217; markings among the oak leaves.\u00a0 Looks totally new.\u00a0 The rotted posts on the enclosed end of the carport: replaced.\u00a0 Damaged Masonite sheathing: replaced.\u00a0 All painted and looks new.\u00a0\u00a0 All the eaves, fascia, etc. repaired as needed and painted.\u00a0 Shutters and windowframes painted, glazing repaired with fresh putty then painted.\u00a0 Screens powerwashed and painted.<\/p>\n<p>When the sawing and banging and scraping were going on, I couldn&#8217;t get much done (folding laundry, yes, but writing or working on the computer, no.)\u00a0 Today was all painting, which is quieter, so I got some work done copying images from my LiveJournal to my own computer, in the same taxonomic organization.\u00a0 Also worked on an essay, a little on the book (harder when I hear voices talking outside&#8211;in very different accents &amp; rhythms than my characters) and taxes.\u00a0 I should have taken pictures before and after, but I didn&#8217;t fully document how bad it was.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the part of the carport they did the most work on.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-351 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Back-of-carport.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Back-of-carport.jpg 400w, http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Back-of-carport-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And the front of the house<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-352 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/House-after-repair.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/House-after-repair.jpg 400w, http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/House-after-repair-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I should have taken a close-up of the wright-iron oak leaves and acorns, but I spent time on the blue water iris in the backyard artificial stream, instead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-354\" src=\"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Woods-stream.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Woods-stream.jpg 400w, http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Woods-stream-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-353\" src=\"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Stream-and-blue-iris-04-06-2017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Stream-and-blue-iris-04-06-2017.jpg 400w, http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Stream-and-blue-iris-04-06-2017-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-355\" src=\"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Head-of-stream-04-06-2017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Head-of-stream-04-06-2017.jpg 400w, http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Head-of-stream-04-06-2017-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All this week the repair &amp; painting crew has been working on the outside of our house, including the carport.\u00a0 It has been noisy and distracting (as construction and lots of strangers about always is) but the effect has been excellent.\u00a0\u00a0 The gaping hole were the beehive was removed is now closed, secured, and painted.\u00a0 <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/2017\/04\/06\/off-topic\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-beyond-writing","tag-life-beyond-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}