{"id":20906,"date":"2014-05-02T21:07:45","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T02:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=20906"},"modified":"2016-11-03T18:35:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T16:35:31","slug":"smoothing-out-the-gravel-pile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/smoothing-out-the-gravel-pile\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoothing Out the &#8216;Gravel&#8217; Pile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This evening, a tractor-owning neighbour smoothed out my &#8216;gravel&#8217; pile. He is as frustrated as I am that I got a mix of dirt and stone rather than proper gravel. It&#8217;ll be a better surface for the RV than the sod, but just barely. At any rate, I can at least park Miranda on the property once again! Yay for helpful neighbours! I&#8217;ll probably get pavers or something along those lines to put under Miranda&#8217;s tires.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-20906 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMGP7791.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMGP7791-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-20907\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-20907'>\n\t\t\t\tboys and their toys \ud83d\ude42\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMGP7795.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMGP7795-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-20908\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-20908'>\n\t\t\t\tMaking good progress!\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMGP7799.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMGP7799-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-20909\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-20909'>\n\t\t\t\tNearly done.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMGP7800.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMGP7800-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-20910\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-20910'>\n\t\t\t\tMeanwhile, I cleared branches and raked leaves. I need to get the pallets out of there to bring in the buildings, but they&#8217;re super heavy. So either I&#8217;m waiting to know how the grainery mover is going to access the property so I can move them out of the way only once or, if I can move Miranda back before the buildings arrive, I&#8217;ll simply move the pallets into place as a boardwalk, like I did last year.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMGP7805.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMGP7805-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-20911\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-20911'>\n\t\t\t\tAs good as it gets! It&#8217;ll dry out and pack down if I give it a few days.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening, a tractor-owning neighbour smoothed out my &#8216;gravel&#8217; pile. He is as frustrated as I am that I got a mix of dirt and stone rather than proper gravel. It&#8217;ll be a better surface for the RV than the sod, but just barely. At any rate, I can at least park Miranda on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[632,4,6,635,5,807,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-haven","category-homemaking","category-north-america","category-rving","category-saskatchewan","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}