{"id":5135,"date":"2013-07-07T04:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=5135"},"modified":"2013-07-06T15:50:04","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T19:50:04","slug":"working-on-a-holiday-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=5135","title":{"rendered":"Working on a Holiday Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took off work on Friday, July 5, yet I worked.  I worked again all day yesterday.  What&#8217;s this work about?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nMy spouse and I are building a pond and waterfall in our back yard, with a paver patio next to it.  I am pleased to say that my spouse is feeling better than he has felt in a long time, as he was able to put in full days of labor despite very warm temperatures and high humidity.<\/p>\n<p>So far, so good.  My spouse thinks we are about 2\/5 done with the project.  My personal goal is to have the whole project completed, including the patio and lighting, by the time my mother-in-law comes to visit in early August.<\/p>\n<p>Progress photos below&#8230; logger boots and old Chippewa engineers make great work boots.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Pond1.jpg?resize=584%2C402\" alt=\"Pond1\" width=\"584\" height=\"402\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Pond1.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Pond1.jpg?resize=300%2C206&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Pond1.jpg?resize=150%2C103&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Pond1.jpg?resize=436%2C300&amp;ssl=1 436w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Pond2a.jpg?resize=584%2C352\" alt=\"Pond2a\" width=\"584\" height=\"352\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Pond2a.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Pond2a.jpg?resize=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Pond2a.jpg?resize=150%2C90&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Pond2a.jpg?resize=497%2C300&amp;ssl=1 497w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Pond2.jpg?resize=584%2C438\" alt=\"Pond2\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Pond2.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Pond2.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Pond2.jpg?resize=150%2C112&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Pond2.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Pond3.jpg?resize=584%2C438\" alt=\"Pond3\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Pond3.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Pond3.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Pond3.jpg?resize=150%2C112&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Pond3.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Pond4.jpg?resize=584%2C204\" alt=\"Pond4\" width=\"584\" height=\"204\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Pond4.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Pond4.jpg?resize=300%2C105&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Pond4.jpg?resize=150%2C52&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Pond4.jpg?resize=500%2C175&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/>Life is short: you will enjoy the products of your labors (so I keep telling myself.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took off work on Friday, July 5, yet I worked. I worked again all day yesterday. What&#8217;s this work about?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}