{"id":552,"date":"2008-09-07T18:47:42","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T23:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clarksite.com\/?p=552"},"modified":"2008-09-07T18:47:42","modified_gmt":"2008-09-07T23:47:42","slug":"feeling-better-and-doing-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/?p=552","title":{"rendered":"Feeling better, and doing better…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well, everyone seems to be on the “getting better” side of the stomach bug that’s been going around. I know I feel a lot better. My little pirate, Kade, is feeling himself. He is the one to blame for all the sickness…he brought it home. In fact Saturday, I could not just sit around anymore, so I called the “handy man” himself, Craig, and we worked on my patio.Craig, and I got started on the patio around lunch time Saturday. We had to make an\u00a0assessment\u00a0of where we left off and where we were headed. Been a while since I started this project, but life got in the way for a little while. Once we did that, it was off to Home Depot to rent a hammer drill. I bought one last time, but it was a Black & Decker…and a piece of crud. I will never buy another Black & Decker tool. None the less, this rental drill made short work of the anchor bolts I put in the slab.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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We planned to have a few folks over later in the evening for some grilling and visiting. Seems like it has been a while since we all had time to hang out. Jack got the grill started for us, while Craig and I hammered on. It is coming together pretty good. There is a lot of little cuts to be made, because of the way I decided to design it. I want to counter sink my 2×4’s into the 2×6 rafters. That way it will be a little more sturdy, and the polycarbonate roofing that will cover 3\/4 of the patio will be easier to set.<\/p>\n

Anywhoo, this week I will come home and finish cutting the corbel’s, staining, and any \"\"other little cuts I can get done. We are shooting to have it all attached to the house by next Sunday. Once that is accomplished, I can go back and build the banister rail, and some other little decorative things I have to do. You can rest assured, with Craig and I on the engineering & design side of things – then team us with Mario and Jack for the building….this thing will look great and last for a long time. Why? ‘Cause we rock!<\/p>\n

Oh yeah, we found something that, for a lack of better words….pissed me off. This is how they did every one of my eve vents. I will be sure to add this to the list of piss poor workmanship this builder has<\/p>\n

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Example A: Piss poor workmanship<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

shown me they’re capable of. You can guarantee this is the last house they will build for me or my family.<\/p>\n

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Here are a couple more shots showing how it is now. Enjoy, and hope to have you over sometime for a little grilling, back porch sitting, guitar picking, relaxing good time.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 Well, everyone seems to be on the “getting better” side of the stomach bug that’s been going around. I know I feel a lot better. My little pirate, Kade, is feeling himself. He is the one to blame for all the sickness…he brought it home. In fact Saturday, I could not just sit around anymore, so I called the “handy man” himself, Craig, and we worked on my patio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mylife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":554,"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}