{"id":2918,"date":"2021-05-17T13:21:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T19:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/?p=2918"},"modified":"2021-05-17T13:23:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T19:23:51","slug":"finishing-the-rock-wall-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/?p=2918","title":{"rendered":"Finishing the Rock Wall Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Carl finished the rock wall project.\u00a0 He dug a ditch that was about a foot deep on one end and two feet on the other ending in a dry well.\u00a0 He put in a layer of gravel which he had been collecting as he had screened dirt in our garden the last two years.\u00a0 Then he laid a drainage pipe and more gravel so if water melted and ended up below the rock wall the wall would not fall.\u00a0 He put cloth on the back of the wall to keep the weeds out but allow water through.\u00a0 The pictures show the beginning of building the wall.\u00a0 Before the rocks had been stood up on their sides.\u00a0 He laid them down so the wall would be more stable.\u00a0 It took some time to fit them all together.\u00a0 The first layer is rocks he could not lift himself but could slide if on a wood piece so he would lever them up onto the wood and then slide the wood into place.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2919\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2919\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2919\" src=\"http:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/41-Building-the-Wall-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/41-Building-the-Wall-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/41-Building-the-Wall-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/41-Building-the-Wall-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2919\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">After digging the ditch and digging a dry well, Carl used the gravel gleaned from dirt in our garden over the years to fill in a layer and then added a drain pipe. Then more gravel until it reach the top where he was now ready to start building the rock wall.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2920\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2920\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2920\" src=\"http:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/42-Building-the-Wall-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/42-Building-the-Wall-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/42-Building-the-Wall-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/42-Building-the-Wall-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2920\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Starting to put the first layer of rocks in.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2921\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2921\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2921\" src=\"http:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/43-Finished-Wall-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/43-Finished-Wall-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/43-Finished-Wall-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/43-Finished-Wall-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2921\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The finished wall. It is nice in the picture and even nicer in person. Carl honed his skills in New York where we also had lots of rocks to build with.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Now the fun part.\u00a0 Our potentillas are starting to bloom.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2922\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2922\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2922\" src=\"http:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/44-Blooming-Potentilla-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/44-Blooming-Potentilla-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/44-Blooming-Potentilla-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/44-Blooming-Potentilla-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2922\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This Potentilla has the most blooms but they are all beginning to bloom now.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Unfortunately the blue flowering vines behind are weeds and we are digging them all out.\u00a0 There are also some in the trees in the back of our house and we will leave those.\u00a0 The flowers are nice but they are short lived.\u00a0 Our potentillas should bloom all spring, summer, and fall.\u00a0 All ten are doing well so we hope they will survive our dry hot summer and then winter and keep progressing as the years go by.<\/p>\n<p>This was a lot of work for Carl but he did such a nice job.\u00a0 Our neighbors have all commented on how lovely it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Carl finished the rock wall project.\u00a0 He dug a ditch that was about a foot deep on one end and two feet on the other ending in a dry well.\u00a0 He put in a layer of gravel which he had been collecting as he had screened dirt in our garden the last two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-intro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2918"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2925,"href":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918\/revisions\/2925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}