{"id":2476,"date":"2014-04-10T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T13:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=2476"},"modified":"2014-04-10T13:54:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T13:54:00","slug":"phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=2476","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like the phoenix which rose from the ashes, our new porch is rising from the ground up. \u00a0I am sitting here listening to the pounding of hammers and the pulling off of siding and then, sudden quiet. \u00a0What is going on? \u00a0I go out every so often and snap a picture and talk to Bub, the contractor, and then try to go about my business pretending there are not four or five men completely changing the appearance of my house.<\/p>\n

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Here it is before the beautiful, old pillars are taken down. David is pretending to push one over and it really is about to fall in this picture and I wish he was not standing so closely to it, but, boys will be boys.<\/p>\n

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Then they dug these gigantic holes(where my flowers use to be.)<\/p>\n

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They then put cement in them. \u00a0The pillars will rest on this foundation. \u00a0How firm a foundation.<\/p>\n

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The pillars were set in place and then the rafters were built. \u00a0I love to watch the process. \u00a0These men certainly know what they are doing.<\/p>\n

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Just a picture to show that the porch is going across the whole front of the house. \u00a0It looks gigantic in person. \u00a0More than I even expected. \u00a0They are making it so sturdy, it should last another one hundred years.<\/p>\n

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The rafters going up. Isn’t the sky so blue? \u00a0I am loving these Spring days.<\/p>\n

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The daffodils are blooming all over the yard. \u00a0Even the ones I had to transplant a few days ago are doing well. \u00a0All that rain we had for a couple of days helped them. \u00a0Thank you, God.<\/p>\n

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Maybe we shouldn’t put a roof over this. \u00a0Then we could see the sky.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, in other parts of the land, the sandbox is going to become a flower box. \u00a0I’m going to fill this with Miracle Grow planting soil and grow zinnias in it.<\/p>\n

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Bub’s old wheel barrow has seen a lot of mileage. \u00a0If you ever need remodeling done, Claude Wright, Jr. is the one to call. \u00a0He gets the job done in record time and his workmen do excellent work. \u00a0He built our addition to our house almost thirty years ago. \u00a0He was a young pup then, like us and it was one of his first projects. \u00a0It’s stood the test of time and he has replaced the windows so it will last another thirty years or more.<\/p>\n

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Just another view. \u00a0That’s a whirly-gig we bought at Rural King. \u00a0When the wind blows just right it spins like crazy.<\/p>\n

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We opened the hot tub last weekend and the grandkids enjoyed it.<\/p>\n

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Who is that scary looking man watching them? \u00a0Just David in his hoodie.<\/p>\n

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These are parts of the pillars we tore down. \u00a0I am going to paint these and use them to put pots of flowers upon. \u00a0Or to be grammatically correct, I will use them on which to put flower pots.<\/p>\n

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This one I will paint also and put dirt inside it and sow seeds. David said when we move this, we better put it where it will stay forever because it is heavy.<\/p>\n

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Before I go, just wanted to show you a cute pillowcase a friend made for me. \u00a0I love it.<\/p>\n

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She got this fabric at JoAnn’s and it is so cute. \u00a0Now I can dream of chickens on my chicken pillowcase. \u00a0Flowered chickens.<\/p>\n

Here’s to builders, blue skies and blooming chickens. \u00a0Bye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like the phoenix which rose from the ashes, our new porch is rising from the ground up. \u00a0I am sitting here listening to the pounding of hammers and the pulling off of siding and then, sudden quiet. \u00a0What is going on? \u00a0I go out every so often and snap a picture and talk to Bub, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,18,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction","category-family-memories","category-home-and-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2477,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476\/revisions\/2477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}