{"id":847,"date":"2017-08-05T03:26:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T03:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/?p=847"},"modified":"2017-08-05T03:26:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T03:26:12","slug":"paving-and-steps-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/05\/paving-and-steps-finished\/","title":{"rendered":"Paving and steps finished!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, a lot of work later it&#8217;s pretty much done.\u00a0 Lesley takes the credit for most of it. Among other things she seems to have a remarkable eye not only for design but for level&#8211;all of the pavers were laid without the use of a level, and they are flat! I did the steps, with the limestones blocks&#8211;but I had to use a level, and even then took some time to work out how best to do it. Anyway, it&#8217;s done, and now the planting is progressing&#8211;as you can see here, mainly water-wise natives.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div data-carousel-extra='{\"blog_id\":1,\"permalink\":\"http:\\\/\\\/house.geoffwells.com\\\/index.php\\\/2017\\\/08\\\/05\\\/paving-and-steps-finished\\\/\"}' class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular\" data-original-width=\"840\"><div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 835px; height: 415px;\"><div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 557px; height: 419px;\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/05\/paving-and-steps-finished\/dsc01584\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"848\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC01584.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"4608,3456\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DSC-WX7&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1501687500&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DSC01584\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC01584-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC01584-1024x768.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC01584-553x415.jpg\" width=\"553\" height=\"415\" align=\"left\" title=\"DSC01584\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"gallery-group images-2\" style=\"width: 278px; 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height: 586px;\"><div class=\"gallery-group images-2\" style=\"width: 392px; height: 590px;\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/05\/paving-and-steps-finished\/dsc01587\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"851\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC01587.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"4608,3456\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DSC-WX7&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1501936304&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DSC01587\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC01587-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC01587-1024x768.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC01587-388x291.jpg\" width=\"388\" height=\"291\" align=\"left\" title=\"DSC01587\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/05\/paving-and-steps-finished\/dsc01588\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"852\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC01588.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"4608,3456\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DSC-WX7&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1501936323&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DSC01588\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC01588-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC01588-1024x768.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC01588-388x291.jpg\" width=\"388\" height=\"291\" align=\"left\" title=\"DSC01588\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 443px; height: 590px;\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/05\/paving-and-steps-finished\/dsc01589\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"853\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC01589-e1501903378928.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"3456,4608\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;14&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DSC-WX7&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1501936352&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;13.81&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;6&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DSC01589\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC01589-e1501903378928-225x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC01589-e1501903378928-768x1024.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC01589-e1501903378928-439x586.jpg\" width=\"439\" height=\"586\" align=\"left\" title=\"DSC01589\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The first photo here is the last action of joining the paving to the steps&#8211;it was very close, by some stroke of luck, and was completed with a couple of inches of shellgrit.<\/p>\n<p>The posts in the last photo are temporary, being designed to train Joey to walk on the pavers and steps rather than the garden!&#8211;he&#8217;s getting the hang of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, a lot of work later it&#8217;s pretty much done.\u00a0 Lesley takes the credit for most of it. Among other things she seems to have a remarkable eye not only for design but for level&#8211;all of the pavers were laid without the use of a level, and they are flat! I did the steps, with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/05\/paving-and-steps-finished\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Paving and steps finished!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":855,"href":"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}