{"id":151,"date":"2009-01-03T13:34:43","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T18:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/?p=151"},"modified":"2010-02-25T09:26:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T14:26:18","slug":"retaining-wall-project-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/2009\/01\/03\/retaining-wall-project-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Retaining Wall Project Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope your holidays have been as restful and pleasant as ours have been. To be honest, I am not exactly looking forward to returning to work next week, but the weather is predicted to become cold and rainy on Monday and Tuesday so perhaps it won&#8217;t be as difficult a transition as it might be. Today it is lovely here. Not too windy, and quite warm.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the holiday festivities and numerous football games, Ron has made excellent progress with the retaining wall. It took several days to get the site prepped and the first course of stones installed and leveled, but the pace of things has really picked up now. I took photos from several different angles to hopefully give you a sense of how the wall is going to fit in the space. As can be seen in some of the pictures, Ron is installing a french drain at the base of the wall to improve and direct drainage, which is a really good idea since we will be planting a Japanese maple at the top of the wall tucked under the oak tree.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"captionfull\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/imageshome\/retwall1jan3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View Looking Southeast<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"captionfull\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/imageshome\/retwall2jan3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View Looking East<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"captionfull\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/imageshome\/retwall3jan3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View Looking North From the Corner of the Wall<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"captionfull\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/imageshome\/retwall4jan3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View Looking Northwest<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"captionfull\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/imageshome\/retwall5jan3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View Looking West<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"captionfull\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/imageshome\/retwall6jan3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View Looking South From the Courthyard Down the Stairs<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nHave a wonderful weekend!<\/p>\n<p>Update: Progress continues!<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"captionfull\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/imageshome\/retwall1_jan7.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View Looking Southeast<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"captionfull\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/imageshome\/retwall2_jan7.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View Looking North Toward the Courtyard<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope your holidays have been as restful and pleasant as ours have been. To be honest, I am not exactly looking forward to returning to work next week, but the weather is predicted to become cold and rainy on Monday and Tuesday so perhaps it won&#8217;t be as difficult a transition as it might be. Today it is lovely here. Not too windy, and quite warm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,13,7],"tags":[220,221,219],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","category-hardscaping","category-landscaping","tag-hardscape","tag-landscape-design","tag-retaining-wall"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phuiL-2r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}